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GARABIT VIADUCT BRIDGE MAP Crossing Truyere River, near Saint-Flour, France Designer/Engineer Gustave Eiffel Completed 1884 Span 541 feet (165 meters) Material Steel Type Arched viaduct Eiffel harnessed the wind, …
Puente la Reina always takes care of pilgrims on arrival. The Camino takes a line straight through the town as it has done since the 11th century. The narrow, …
ULLMANN MUSEUM Viktor Ullmann was the senior figure among the Jewish Czech composers imprisoned in the Nazi transit camp at Terezm. He entered the camp in 1942, spent two …
Walking in Circles – A Route around your Town A few years back I remember reading an article in an outdoors magazine which centred on Snowdon, the highest mountain …
I took the bus four stops in the town direction to the surgery where I was shown immediately into the dentist’s chair. And I was out and fixed in …
I had expected a grand new bus station, but the government apparently is not interested in bus travellers. They want cashed-up flyers. There was nowhere under shade to sit …
Believe me, eleven days’ worth of food is heavy. As I hoisted (or rather hauled) my pack on the following morning and walked off with HoJo out of Silver …
Snacked and whiskied, we venture onward. The South Downs, a designated and protected national park, comprise 260 square miles. Undulating gently in all directions, old footpaths carve through the …