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Basque Coast & Bilbao

Any port in storm, as the saying goes. In Zumaia, on April Fools’ Day, we […]

Ah Donostia! A simply beautiful curve in the Bay of Biscay, once visited and never […]

In 2012 we had clambered up the enormous and other-worldly Dune du Pilat to gaze […]

The west coast of Bordeaux running south towards the Spanish border is perhaps a corner […]

For anyone who loves wandering off a beaten path and being rewarded with the sights […]

Any place that alludes to itself as ‘Venice’ is going to be worth a visit. […]

A medieval stronghold on a rocky promontory, Fougères is protected by a magnificent feudal castle […]

Spring needed to have sprung and with no sign of the coldest March on record […]

Spend any amount of time in Germany and you’ll learn that the locals don’t do […]

Some places you visit because you are drawn to them throughout your life, others wantonly […]