About 25 miles north from Achill, BANGOR (or sometimes Bangor Ennis) is pleasant enough, although its landlocked location makes it less exciting than the seaside places nearby. Bangor marks the start of a spectacular 22-mile hike, the ...
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As you travel from Sens towards Auxerre, the next place of any size on the Yonne is the modest town of JOIGNY , its elegant old houses ranged up the slope above the river. Its first fort was constructed here at the end of the tenth century,...
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There's very little to detain the traveller in ALTAGRACIA , a sleepy town set slightly inland from the lake on Ometepe's northeastern side. Its Parque Central is nicely ringed by several pre-Columbian statues found on the island...
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