COLMAR , a fifty-minute train ride south of Strasbourg, has sprawled unattractively on both sides of the train tracks, but the old centre remains typically and whimsically Alsatian, with crooked houses, half-timbered and painted, on crooked lanes -...
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Yorkshire's second city, and England's fourth-largest, SHEFFIELD remains inextricably linked with its steel industry, in particular the production of high-quality cutlery. As early as the fourteenth century, the carefully fashioned,...
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East of Õmola, cypress trees and umbrella pines, gentler hills and vineyards signal the fact that you're leaving Emilia and entering the Romagna - although strictly speaking there's no distinct boundary between the two regions. FAENZA , 12km...
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