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Carcassonne And On: Wine, Music, Food, Wine…And More Wine
Walt Disney is said to have loved this place so much that he modelled the castle of Sleeping Beauty on it. Up there on on the hill it looks like everyone’s idea of a fairy tale setting, with its perfectly cylindrical turrets pointing upwards so precisely that it’s tempting to look out for Rapunzel letting down her hair or some other damsel in distress calling out for help in the hope that her knight in shining armour appears over the horizon. The damsels, though, are tourists, and so for that matter are those coming over the horizon. Carcassonne is a town of two halves however you look at it. The…
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Michaela on tour- week one continued
Up bright and early this morning for the hour long bus ride into the city of Norwich. 24 miles North-West of Lowestoft, Norwich is the most complete medieval city in England and the only city in England located in a national park, the Norfolk Broads Quick facts about Norwich: Norwich Cathedral has the second tallest spire in England after Salisbury Cathedral Norwich claims to have the largest open air market in the UK It was said that Norwich had a church for every week of the year and a pub for every day of the year! Unfortunately there aren’t that many pubs now! Today we leave the shops behind and…
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