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EU parliament votes against improving search and rescue for refugees in Mediterranean
Migrants helped by rescuers arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey (AFP/Getty) Here’s an article from The Independent that caught my eye recently: Quote: EU parliament votes against improving search and rescue for refugees...
Postcard from….the European Parliament
Just a couple hours driving will get us to our overnight stop in Nancy tonight so we’ve plenty of time to visit the European Parliament building just outside Strasbourg before we set off. As it’s Saturday we didn’t expect it to be open but in fact it is so we join a...
Postcard from….Strasbourg
Wow! Another lovely new European city find just a few weeks on from our last one! One of three de facto capitals of the European Union, Strasbourg is located near the border with Germany in the pretty Alsace region. It’s home to several European institutions including...
Postcard from….Lucerne
We were lucky to cross the Alps from Como yesterday in warm clear sunshine because today it has rained all day and the cloud is down to lake level. Instead of the 11-mile two-lane Gotthard tunnel we decided to take the more spectacular up-and-over-the-Pass...
Postcard from…. Dartmoor
Camping then…. We had a caravan when the girls were young and we enjoyed many family holidays in it around the UK and our annual ‘big tow’ to the Dordogne or south of France. We’ve always preferred a level of comfort to any sort of rough camping so our last 'van,...
Postcard from….Sevilla: whoa!
Christopher Columbus monument in Jardine de Murillo We love a ‘wow' moment in our travels and the more such moments, the better. Mostly the natural surroundings that provide it, such as the magnificent west coast of Scotland we visited recently, with views that...
Postcard from….the road to Caminha
‘Nose up’ (actually 'tail-up' too) to the 16th Century town hall in Puebla de Sanabria Three days before our 24-hour ferry journey to Santander Brittany Ferries wrote to advise us that, due to rudder problems requiring our ship to go into dry dock for repair, our...
Postcard from….our tour of Scotland
“God’s own country”? An understatement, I say, and haggis for breakfast too! We’ve reached “the end of the road” according to the sign at John o’Groats on our driving tour of Scotland, with the dogs. It’s been a wonderful trip so far. The weather has been very kind to...
