Carol Duval
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Elaine left a very handy and accurately written booklet called Octagon Walks outlining with eight walks that we’re working through and...

What a change! From precarious mountain roads, thick forests and misty views of the Pyrenees to the hedged country lanes and green/golds...

After nearly seven weeks in La Forge del Mitg, friends Avis and Peter Gunn shared our final few days and gave us a chance to revisit some...

A recent email from my school friend Jenny (North Sydney Girls) brought a sigh of relief with her recounting of the time she was...

Elaine had told us that if we were beginning to get cabin fever in La Forge del Mitg we should spend a couple of days in Girona—Spain’s...

It has certainly been a few years from when we took a few days out from travelling on our Eurail passes around Europe. The beaches are...

After a few days' driving from Paris to our new exchange home in the Pyrenees Orientale we've started to explore this fascinating area....

More art and more crowds but at least more bearable than in Barcelona—that is, the Dali Museum and Theatre in Figueres. We spent nearly...

One of the unexpected discoveries about living here is the whole Catalonian experience. We should have known or at least investigated...

We left early in the morning, driving down the treacherous mountain roads to the even more treacherous Barcelona traffic to meet up with...

Our home for seven weeks in early autumn is in this small but deceptively lively mountain village in the heart of north Catalonia. The...

The story of our trip, courtesy of Viking River Cruise, from St Petersburg to Moscow.