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If you’re applying for work as a chef in Italy and you say you’re from Abruzzo, the job is as good as yours…
Aix-en-Provence | Maxine Jones
Cezanne’s studio is on a hill to the north of the city, set in quiet, leafy gardens, almost exactly as he left it when he died in 1906
All of Cork's a Stage | Maxine Jones | Ireland, Southwest (Kerry & Cork), Haulbowline Island
Theatre, if you think of it as an enclosed stage and audience in rows, is too limited a term for what I saw in Cork last weekend
Aquitaine | Maxine Jones | France, Bordeaux Region, Bordeaux
Henry de Batz de Trenquelleon, whose forebear was the model for d’Artagnan, greets us at the wrought iron railings in front of his 18th century chateau
Canal du Midi, Languedoc | Maxine Jones | France, Languedoc/ South West, Beziers
With more and more visitors every year heading off in search of the ‘real’ France, the chances of finding it are becoming more remote
Corking Good: Baltimore | Maxine Jones
It's not the kind of place you hurry through on your way somewhere else. In fact you can't - the road peters out at the Beacon, a white landmark on top of a cliff, which looks like a giant oasthouse
Costa del Sol | Maxine Jones | Spain, Costa del Sol, Torremolinos
If you go to Torremolinos expecting the worse, you won't be disappointed
Fashionable Lisbon | Maxine Jones | Portugal, Lisbon, Lisbon
Architecturally the city is a mixture of medieval Moorish and elegant 18th century. Everything is tinted with sepia charm
France with Kids and Campervan | Maxine Jones
We woke to grey skies and drizzle. ‘Don’t worry, kids,’ I told them. ‘We’ll just have to go a little further south to find the good weather.’ This became a mantra of the holiday
Going North: The Other Ireland | Maxine Jones | United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Castlewellan Forest Park
It was the week leading up to Hallowe’en and I’d decided to take my sons, Conor, Marcus and Tiernan, up to the North for a couple of days - their first visit. Marcus backs out with the excuse that he thinks he’ll get blown up
Gran Canaria | Maxine Jones | Spain, Canary Islands, Maspalomas
What I didn’t expect when I booked four days in Spain’s biggest holiday resort was to have 250 hectares of rolling, deserted sand dunes on my doorstep
Irish Cycling Safaris | Maxine Jones
I was freewheeling down towards Bannow Bay in glorious sunshine, the roads deserted, the warm, pine-scented breeze in my hair and the sound of chirruping insects in the hedgerows
Lagos and (Praia da) Luz | Maxine Jones | Portugal, Algarve, Tavira
While some go for the exotic and the unusual, many are looking for the familiar in a warmer climate. In the Algarve they find it
Lanzarote | Maxine Jones | Spain, Canary Islands, Lanzarote
The year-round warmth of Lanzarote coupled with cheap fares overcame my prejudice about a place I imagined to be as tourist-blighted as Torremolinos
Looking for Milan | Maxine Jones | Italy, Lombardy, Milan
“You can't live in Milan,” I am told again and again. “Milan is just a place to work.” It is also a place to shop, to admire fine works of art and, if you’re so inclined, dance at some of the best nightclubs in Europe
Lyon | Maxine Jones | France, Rhone Valley, Lyon
Lyon's centre, crossed by the rivers Saone and Rhone, is backed by two hills complete with Roman ruins - this was, after all, once Lugdunum, the capital of Gaul
Madeira | Maxine Jones | Portugal, Madeira, Funchal
My heart was palpitating and part of me thought this shouldn’t be allowed, it’s far too dangerous – scarier than skiing, but during the whole of the 2km free fall the smile never left my face. This was living!
New York | Maxine Jones | United States, New York State, New York
The kids' natural reluctance to galleries – on a recent trip to the Uffizi in Florence my eldest spent the whole time in the coffee bar – was triumphantly overcome by the Guggenheim and MOMA
One Day in Istanbul | Maxine Jones | Turkey, Marmara, Istanbul
Ships glided up to the Bosphorus which cuts through the city dividing east from west, Asia from Europe, the only city in the world to span two continents
Oporto and the Minho | Maxine Jones | Portugal, Northern Portugal, Porto
The river Douro is the key to Oporto. Ramshackle medieval houses are built alongside steps draped with sleeping cats. The almost vertical streets tumble down to the riverbank, which is lined with lively cafes and shops
Rain, roof-racks and pirates: a family holiday in France | Maxine Jones | France, Brittany, Roscoff
For families with young children it's hard to imagine a better holiday than camping on a four-star site with pools, waterslides, children's clubs, playgrounds, shops, bar and restaurants...For people without young children it would be hard to imagine one worse
Rocky Road to Banjul | Maxine Jones
The queue on the Western Sahara side of the Mauritanian border is five hours long. Two guys from Cornwall wash and wring out their clothes and drape them round their van to dry
Immersing myself in the clear turquoise Sardinian sea became a daily fix. The purest, cleanest part of the Mediterranean sea laps the island’s shores…
Skiing in Chamonix | Maxine Jones | France, French Alps, Chamonix
‘You don’t have to ski,’ I’m told. ‘The chalets are five-star with jacuzzis on the terrace and a gourmet cook every evening.’ I can take a moonlit husky sleigh-ride, a helicopter over Mont Blanc, enjoy the nightlife in Chamonix
Summer in the Tirol | Maxine Jones | Austria, Tyrol, Westendorf
There’s a feel-good factor about being in an Alpine meadow in summertime that is hard to beat – bobbing wild flowers, circle of craggy peaks, occasional glisten of snow and the haphazard church-bell chime
The Isle of Man | Maxine Jones
This is a place for eating home-made ice cream and visiting castles. Castle Rushen in Castletown, the ancient capital, has never fallen out of use since it was the home of Magnus, last Norse King of Man, who died here in 1265