We stayed in Royal Oak Farm Cottage, Betws-Y-Coed.
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Zwolle to Groningen: a short cycling tour, Sept 2016
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Slide show : ‘How the Dutch Make Cities Fit for Cycling’
Made for a talk to Camden Cycling Campaign on our study of Groningen’s cycling facilities
Walking in the Calanques of Marseille, March 2014
Introduction
Calanque de Port Pin
We like to plan a walking holiday in the spring so as to break away from the gloom of winter and to get out on the footpaths once more. We have wanted to see Marseille ever since seeing the film Marius et Jeannette and then hearing about it from people who live there. During our investigations, we read Philip Oltermann’s Guardian article A walk on the Cote d’Azur’s wild side about a stay in Cassis and walks to the Calenques. So we decided to stay in Cassis, to walk round the Calenques on fine days and to go into Marseille when it rained.
We booked Studio Cassis for a week. This studio is adjacent to the house of the very friendly owner Josette Bert. It is a short walk to the centre for shops and shore. But to book you need to phone the Mme Bert as the internet booking seems not to work.
We bought the IGN walking map 3245 ET. Aubagne La Ciotat. 1:25000 which covered the two walks we planned on the Calenques and a wider area for the other two walks we did.
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