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Venetian Dreams

By Eve Hartridge, Follow Eve on Twitter

I first visited Venice many years ago with my Valentine. We were young and naive about what love was all about and spent hours hopelessly gazing into each others eyes over Prosecco on St Mark's Square, asking random strangers to take pictures of us together. In the text book of romance, Venice is in the first paragraph Chapter One along with Tiffany turquoise boxes and Interflora deliveries. Even the suavest man of them all, James Bond gave into the cliche and took the first love of his life, Vespa to Venice before she met with a watery end in Casino Royale - what more of a rubber stamp do you need? Venice equals romance, even the guide book says so.

To me, true Venice is like true love. It's not about the grand gestures and the over-priced Gondola ride. It's about discovering the magic of this city that can be experienced at any time of the year, like when you realise that every day is Valentines Day when you discover true love. Venice is best enjoyed by those who want to explore all that this wonderful city has to offer and by those who want to photograph more than just themselves on a camera phone from an arm's length! My top tip, don't go in February but don't leave it too long as the c...Read More

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By Eve Hartridge- follow Eve on Twitter

The UK's beautiful Channel Islands are known for their peace and tranquility and Sark must be one of the most relaxing places on earth. The island can be accessed by ferry from both Guernsey and Jersey and takes about an hour. It's a great place to visit for the day or to include in your Channel Island experience.

Sark is like an adventure on arrival, there are no cars and visitors are collected by tractor and trailer from the ferry terminal. The Island has around six hundred residents including part time resident Carl Hester w...Read More

48 Hours in Pra Loup

By Eve Hartridge, follow Eve on Twitter

I would imagine that most of my readers have never heard of Pra Loup, unless you were one of the lucky few on my school ski trip in 1994 as this was when I first discovered this lovely resort in The Southern Alps. Pra Loup is around 100km from Nice Airport, but with limited public transport to the resort the best way to get there is to hire a car. Pra Loup is in the Alpes-de-Haute- Provence region and 3 miles away from the small town of Barcelonnette. The resort has two base points Pra Loup 1600 and Pra Loup 1500 (Les Molanes) less than t...Read More

La Manga - The Sandbar of the Minor Sea

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The summer of 2012 will be remembered by all those who live in the UK as “the best of summers and the worst of summers”; we hosted the Olympics and celebrated The Queens Jubilee, however I believe the weather has been the worst on r...Read More

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