Tag: UNESCO World Heritage
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France 2018: Paris Part 3
WEDNESDAY 11TH APRIL After our usual breakfast of French pastries, we headed across the river for a stroll down Rue de Montorgueill. This is the cutest little street. We popped into Stohrer, the oldest bakery in Paris. I had to try the Rum Baba, and it was delicious. We bought our pastries and then found…
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France 2018: Paris, Day Trip to The Somme
MONDAY 9th APRIL The plan today was to catch the fast train to Amiens to meet a tour guide for a tour of the Somme battlefields. This was a request from G, and we decided to do it the day after the marathon because it would not require too much walking. Unfortunately, our train was…
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France 2018 – Beaumes-de-Venise
WEDNESDAY 4th April This morning, we packed up and left the wild Camargue for Beaumes-de-Venise, a small town northeast of Avignon, at the base of the Dentelles de Montmirail. First, though, I needed to get my Roman ruin fix. We drove about an hour north to Pont du Gard. Built to allow the Nîmes aqueduct to…
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Tasmania 2024: Day 6 Hobart
After a yummy breakfast (coconut rice pudding), we caught an UBER to the Cascade Brewery. This is the oldest brewery in Australia and was opened in 1932. The company operated as a sawmill from 1924. The tour starts in the visitor’s centre, which occupies the old family house and associated buildings. We collected our safety…
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Tasmania 2024 Day 2 – Tesselated Pavement and Port Arthur
Today G and N went off for a long run about 10 mins drive away in Murdunna while S and I had a bit of sleep-in before heading to the Tesselated Pavement. These rock formations are formed by movement along fault lines fractured the siltstone and erosion has deepened the pattern. Pan formations (more weathering…
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Hamburg Airbus Factory Tour – Mon 20th Nov
The big thing scheduled for today was a tour of the Airbus factory, but like all the factory tours, no photos were allowed. In the morning we went back to the warehouse district so we could have more of a look in the daylight. From there we caught a ferry, train and then bus out…
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Italian Days Food Tour – Sat 10th Nov
We had an early start today for our bus tour to learn about some of the food specialties of the Moderna region. The 7 am pickup in Bologna was necessary so we would arrive at the Parmigiano-Reggiano factory in time to see the production. Parmigiano-Reggiano is made every morning with the previous evening’s milking and…
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Bologna Pasta Class – 9th Nov
Bologna is famous for three things—the oldest university in the world, food and its porticos which are UNESCO World Heritage listed. In planning our two full days here I had the food side pretty much covered and then planned to hit the other two in the gaps. Our first day I had booked a pasta…
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Brescia, Italy – Wed 8th to Thurs 9th Nov
After our delayed flight to Milan we finally arrived in to Brescia mid-afternoon. We checked into the hotel and then headed off to the Roman ruins. Since we were so late, G’s client meeting was moved to the following afternoon, so he was able to join me sightseeing. Brescia is a bit off the normal…
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K’Gari: Kingfisher Bay Resort Part 2
You can read part 1 here. Monday we started our day walking south from the resort following the McKenzie’s Jetty High tide route. This track goes up and over the headland through the bush, passing the Southern Great Sandy Lookout and out through the dingo fence to the beach. We also passed through what was…