Travel certainly isn’t what it used to be. Don’t get us wrong, we’re not entirely pining for the old days - the digital revolution and emerging sharing economy are just two reasons that travel is become all-the-more accessible and straightforward.
There is nothing scarier than being detained in a foreign country. In order to save you from some trouble, here are a few tips to help you while driving in France.
As a visitor, it’s important to support the communities that welcome us, by being environmentally-friendly when you travel - but how do we do this?
Isabelle Santoire belongs to an elite team of trained mountain guides at le Syndicat National des Guides de Montagne (SNGM). The SNGM includes 1600 individuals who have met the stringent criteria, and Isabelle is a role model as she represents one of extremely few women in this physically demanding line of work.
Let's say, for argument's sake, the airline messed up and you wound up in this completely strange European city. Is it true? Could this be PARIS? - If you're still at a complete loss and the airline misplaced your GPS, let me give you a couple of well-tested clues just to make sure.
Most people have heard of the catacombs, which are actually an ossuary. But few have heard about the other underground activities that have been taking place beneath the city of Paris for centuries.
I always pictured life in Australia as relaxing, full of sun, wildlife and surfing. But when I arrived in early July, the weather was awful every day.
The Place des Quinconces in Bordeaux is one of the largest city squares in Europe… The square's centrepiece is the Girondist monument. It pays tribute to the Girondists of the French Revolution and the French Republic.
We visited most of the approximately 300 models. Some of them looked uncannily real, others looked more like a toddler had made them out of play dough. My favourites included Ray Charles (who was belting out a tune at a piano), Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, (a young, thin) Gérard Depardieu and Napoléon
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