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Barefoot in Paris | Stanley Stewart | France, Ile-de-France, Paris

For a romantic weekend in Paris, the Mermaid was appropriately inappropriate: beautiful, flighty, inconstant, in a word, a bombshell. I was always waiting for her to explode…

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Holiday Romance | Jim Keeble

Sun, sea and ... museums? Probably not

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Iles d’Hyeres | Jim Keeble | France, Riviera Cote d'Azur, Iles d'Hyeres

Romance was called for. We’d argued in the midst of bustling Cannes. We’d argued in the tour-bus busy streets of St. Tropez. The Riviera was filling up for its summer invasion of eight million tourists

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Rome: a personal memoir | Lee Marshall | Italy, Lazio, Rome

It’s the sheer theatricality of the place that hits you first. That obelisk, flanked by four Napoleonic lions spewing water. The symmetrical Baroque churches on the far side

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Tallinn Travel Story | Vijai Maheshwari | Estonia, Tallinn, Tallinn

Once enough vodka has been imbibed, even the uber Tallinn icebabes in their Prada jeans and Wella-conditioned hair might burst into a Russian song

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Tangopolis | Chris Moss | Argentina, Buenos Aires and the Pampas, Buenos Aires

El tango was the soundtrack, sex organ and soul of the big, bad-tempered port city I’d chosen for home.

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The Jewel of the Adriatic | Campbell Jefferys | Croatia, Dalmatia and the Adriatic Islands, Dubrovnik

Desecrated by bombings and ravaged by war, Dubrovnik has been lovingly restored and is once again one of the most charming and delightful cities in Europe

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“There is No World Without Verona’s Walls” | Campbell Jefferys | Italy, Veneto, Verona

Romeo is somewhere within Verona’s walls and I am intent on finding him. Perhaps he could explain why this city, and Juliet, made him wax so lyrically

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