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Sur. I have very special memories of this place. It is one of the most beautiful areas I’ve ever been to, even though it has suffered at the hands of tourism in recent years.

Sometimes you amble unawares into the most truly astonishing scenarios, that in retrospect seem...

Prague erupts like something out of Hans Christian Anderson, all spires and turrets and red tiled rooftops.

‘Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.’ Thus spake the Marquis de Sade, perhaps while surveying the Luberon valley from one of his château’s windows in the hill town of Lacoste.

Jaques Majorelle, after spending years trekking through the deserts and mountains of northern Africa, settled for a while in Marrakech and created a most beautiful garden on the Rue Yves Saint Laurent.