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CASTRES – AN UNKNOWN GEM IN THE LANGUEDOC, AND A RUINED ABBEY

We have been travelling around the Languedoc region on and off for many years, and this time, as well as returning to some old favourites, we were keen to seek out a few places and sights we hadn’t visited before. We thought we would drive from…

IDYLLIC ISCHIA – CAPRI’S BEAUTIFUL ISLAND NEIGHBOUR

Categories: Italy, West Coast

Rising from the crystal clear azure waters of il Golfo di Napoli, the island of Ischia has been a sough-after destination by visitors for centuries. Covered with lemon trees, vineyards and olive groves, Ischia is a beautiful, volcanic island th…

DISCOVER THE MYSTERIOUS ETRUSCAN CIVILISATION AND MORE, AT TARQUINIA

Categories: Italy, West Coast

The history of Tarquinia is inextricably connected to the history of the Etruscans. It was here that one of the first settlements of their civilisation arose, made up of a gathering of small groups that clustered together into a complex social…

THE ISLAND OF ELBA – MORE THAN JUST MEMORIES OF NAPOLEON

Categories: Italy, West Coast

Best known for being the place of Napoleon’s exile in 1814, Elba is the biggest island of the Tuscan archipelago and Italy’s third-largest island, after Sardinia and Sicily. It’s also part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park. It has so much to…