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Discovering Hidden Treasures in Newcastle
Let’s play a game! Please think of famous British sights that you can name off the top of your head – three or four will do. And now please think: how many of these sights are located outside of London? I bet that for most of you the answer will be zero. That, in a…
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Father’s Day 2026
Usually, we use this place to tell you about walks and hikes that we have done recently. As it is Father’s Day soon, today’s post is different. It is about a trip I have not done and may never do. But hope, as they say, dies last. Back in 2012, when this blog was young…
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City Walks | Europe | Italian Riviera | Italy
La Spezia: The Modern Face of Italy
La Spezia is that rare kind of thing: a tourist town without tourist attractions. The town is full of visitors who have travelled there halfway across Europe – some of them halfway across the world – not to visit and experience La Spezia but to use the town as a base for explorations of the…
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Baha’i Terraces of Haifa: The Most Beautiful Garden in the World
Israel is a small country, smaller than the state of New Jersey and roughly half the size of the Netherlands. Due to its long and narrow shape, however, the distances from one place to another can be surprisingly long. There is, for example, room enough in Israel for a 1-hour domestic flight from Tel Aviv…
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Fall in Love With Modern Architecture in Tel Aviv
Modern architecture is difficult to love. It is not so much the concept that is the problem here: all of us can easily agree that its principles are fine and noble – simplicity (less is more), an appearance of elegant restraint (ornament is crime), transparency of structure (form follows function). But while this theory has…
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Stairways of Valletta
by Mrs Easy Hiker Perhaps it is because we are under the charms of Liguria (the nearest Italian region neighbouring Menton where we now reside) and lived along the stairways of Montmartre for more than 20 years, that the sight of the stairways of Valletta gave us a tug of familiarity. There is definitely an…
