Category:Travel

Cannes As with Aix, I only spent an afternoon in Cannes, whilst I was staying in Nice. It’s not a big town, and there’s a limited amount to see when the film festival isn’t on – sadly my calendar meant I was there a couple of weeks too early for…

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Aix-en-Provence I visited this town for an afternoon while staying in Marseille, as it’s quite small so I didn’t feel I needed much longer. This is the quintessential Provence town, small and rustic and pretty, and it helped that the weather was lovely that day. First of all, I took…

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Carcassone Carcassone is a town split into two distinct parts – La Cité and La Ville Basse. The walled town atop a hill is La Cité, but this is only a small portion of Carcassone as a whole. The day I arrived I first of all went for a look…

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     So, for anyone who hasn't been paying attention, or has never read my blog before, I've been studying abroad in France all year, in the Loire Valley region. However, I decided to try to see as many other parts of France as I could whilst here, and a…

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This is my second post about the various châteaux of the Loire Valley (part 1 is here), which I’ve been visiting while studying abroad this year. Aside from Blois, the châteaux in those post are all further out in the countryside than most of the others I visited, which means…

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I’ve been studying abroad this year, in a town called Tours in the Loire Valley. I’ve found the town itself isn’t particularly exciting, but I have been using the year to see more of France, and this region is well known for its many châteaux. There’s so many I couldn’t…

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     I went to Austria! If you hadn’t already guessed from the title of this post. I had a week off from classes, so I went to visit Bridget, who is on her year abroad in Linz, for a few days. Obviously I haven’t seen her in ages, but…

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