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The French Riviera: Nice, Cannes and Monaco

The French Riviera has a rare advantage: everything is close. Nice, Cannes and Monaco sit under an hour apart, the roads run along the sea,

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Strasbourg in a weekend: what to see

Strasbourg has been French and German in turn five times in less than a century, and the result shows on every street. It has a

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London in 3 days: what to see

London in 3 days has one feature that completely changes the budget: almost all the great museums are free. The British Museum, the National Gallery,

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Snowdonia: hikes, castles and Welsh legends

A national park of over two thousand square kilometres, with ninety summits above six hundred metres, castles built by Welsh princes and a train that

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Zagori: the stone villages and bridges of Pindus

Zagori is a region of the Pindus mountains in north western Greece, made up of forty six villages built entirely from local stone and linked

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Vikos gorge: the deepest canyon in the world

The Vikos gorge appears in the record books as the deepest canyon in the world relative to its width. It is not the deepest in

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Thessaloniki: a guide to food, history and quarters

Thessaloniki is the second city of Greece and the first for food, and that is not brochure copy but something Athenians concede. It has fifteen

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Pelion: mountain villages and Aegean beaches

Pelion is the peninsula that closes the gulf of Volos, in Thessaly, and one of the few places in Greece where the mountain runs straight

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Lake Koman: the ferry through Albania fjords

Lake Koman is a reservoir on the Drin river in northern Albania, and the ferry that crosses it has become one of the best known

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