A few minutes by rail or road from Bayonne, BIARRITZ was, until forty years ago, the Monte Carlo of the Atlantic coast, transformed by NapolÈon III in the mid-nineteenth century into a playground for monarchs, aristos and glitterati. With the...
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The modest manufacturing town of BRANTFORD , to the west of Hamilton beside the Grand River, takes its name from Joseph Brant, who led a large group of Loyalist Iroquois here after the American War of Independence, then worked to form a...
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Sixty kilometres from Berlin, on the main rail line to the Polish city of Szczecin, is the tiny village of CHORIN . Alight at Bahnhof Kloster Chorin, the first of the two train stations, to see the evocatively ruined Cistercian Kloster ...
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