There are regular buses (approximately one an hour) from Altenahr to ADENAU , and the thirty-minute journey takes you through the upper reaches of the Ahr valley, via a succession of tiny villages, deep into the High Eifel. Adenau is a pretty...
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YIOS NIK LAOS (Ag Nik to the majority of its British visitors) is set around a supposedly bottomless salt lake , now connected to the sea to form an inner harbour. It is supremely picturesque and has some style and charm,...
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If you head east out of Xepon, the highway gradually climbs through the foothills of the Annamite Mountains, passing bomb craters - often obscured by brush - and unexploded ordnance, dragged to the roadside by villagers clearing their land. Women squat by...
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