Inspiring Travel Writing from Annabel Simms: Page 2 of 2
Articles by Annabel Simms: Page 2 of 2
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Secrets of Notre Dame Island
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
All visitors to Paris know the Ile de la Cité, if only because of Notre Dame, and one visit is usually enough. Or so I thought, as a smug resident of the neighbouring and much more exclusive Ile St Louis, where I have been living since leaving...
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Paradise (or the Worst Kind of Hell)
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Annabel Simms
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Turkey
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Aegean (Bodrum Peninsula)
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Bodrum
The best way to be on a boat, in my experience, is to be part of the crew. It’s a simple arrangement, whereby you offer your skills, or even just your willingness to acquire them, as first mate/cook/companion or a combination of these, in return for...
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La Ferté-Milon
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
The prettiest and least visited part of the Canal de l’Ourcq, which enters Paris at Porte de la Villette, is its beginning at Port aux Perches in the Aisne département, 70 km north east of the capital. The River Ourcq has always been important to...
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The Nature of the French
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
I’ve enjoyed country walks for most of my life in England without ever worrying about getting lost. It was only when I started seriously exploring the countryside around Paris with an American friend that getting lost became an all too familiar...
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Vive les Guinguettes!
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
I discovered the Guinguette Auvergnate by accident. I live on the Ile St Louis in the heart of Paris, and the thought of all the crowds about to descend on the riverside quais on the first really warm Sunday of spring prompted me to head for the...
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The Perfect Yoga Teacher
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
I was 30 when I went to my first yoga class in Hampstead, on the advice of my GP. I wanted to come off the tranquillisers she had prescribed to help me cope with the ending of a long-term relationship. The class was taught by a calm young woman with...
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Spending national service in Ireland's lake district
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Annabel Simms
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United Kingdom
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Northern Ireland
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Belfast
The group of five men and six women had all volunteered to work for the National Trust, clearing brush on the estate of a stately home in Northern Ireland for a week in August. Only two had previous experience. None of us was used to demanding...
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Maisons-Laffitte: A Popular Portuguese Family Restaurant Close to a 17th-century Model Château
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
I had always thought of Maisons-Laffitte as a bourgeois residential suburb probably not worth exploring. But a local’s recommendation and its easy access by train decided me to try it with a friend one Sunday – and proved me wrong.We began by...
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Paris: Off the Rails on an Inner-City Nature Trail
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
I had always thought of the residential 16th arrondissement as one of the most boring districts in Paris, until I discovered the Sentier Nature by chance while hurrying to a doctor’s appointment. I didn’t have time to investigate, but the doctor’s...
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A Walk of Discovery through the Parc Saint Cloud
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Annabel Simms
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France
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Ile-de-France
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Paris
Overlooking a bend of the Seine to the west of Paris, the 988-acre Parc Saint Cloud is relatively unknown to foreign visitors. It was designed by Le Nôtre for a vanished château completed in 1690 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart for ‘Monsieur’, the younger...
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