Month: August 2021

RACE DAY

As we always enjoy meeting good friends, we were very much looking forward to this event. We met some “petrol heads”, which Edi knows since his early school days! Every year they organise a 24-hour race event, shadowing the “24 Hours of Le Mans” taking place the same weekend, but on gravel and using vintage …

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Roya Valley

We thought this time we would be able to explore the Roya Valley up to the Col de Tende pass and use this route to go to Cuneo in Italy. We had already intended to come here in April 2018, but back then, snow had made it impossible. We didn’t know that in October 2020 …

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Provence

We spent a couple of days visiting friends near Cannes and had the chance to visit some of the typical villages of this area like Grasse, Mougins, Valbonne and Saint-Paul-de-Vence. The historic centres with their typical stone houses with wooden shutters and narrow alleys, with perfume shops, boutiques and art galleries were a unique impression, …

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Salvador Dalí

On our way through Cataluña, we wanted to stop at Figueres, to visit the museum of Dalí. It was the weekend, and Catalan nationalists used the highway bridges, to get their wish of independence to the people. Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres in 1904, and the city’s theatre is the most important exhibition of …

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Tarragona

Tarragona, once the Roman Tarraco, was founded before the 5th century BC, and is the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula. It became the capital of the Roman province of Hispania Citerior (province at the east coast of modern Spain) during the period of the Roman Republic, and of Hispania Tarraconensis (province of the northern, eastern and central territories of …

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