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A well-to-do western suburb of Paris, Courbevoie is in touch with the centre of the city, but has an easy, residential feel. There are some understated museums to check out, housed in pavilions that were made for the Exposition Universelle in 1878. Courbevoie also contains some of La Défense, the city’s modern banking district, so you …
Just shy of the Belgian border in the Nord department, Valenciennes is a city noted for culture and creativity, which gave it the nickname, “Athens of the North”. For hundreds of years this relatively small place churned out painters, sculptors and architects who helped shape French culture forever. You can sample the works of figures …
Mostly known as a ferry port, Cherbourg-Octeville has a lot more strings to its bow: The Cité de la Mer museum for example will take you back to the golden age of transatlantic travel and is housed in a cavernous Art Deco ocean liner terminal. Cherbourg also has the largest man-made harbour in the world, …
In a picture-book scene of hills with a light mantle of cork oak trees sits Montemor-o-Novo. It’s an unpretentious town In the middle of the Alentejo countryside, and has a few heavyweight sights to circle on your map. Alentejo is strewn with prehistoric monuments, and there are 12 in this municipality alone. One dolmen was …
Indonesia is a surf mecca like no other on earth. Set over a whopping 17,000 islands between the Sulu Sea and the Indian Ocean, it’s a land that hoovers up swell from the depths of the Southern Hemisphere and combines it with tropical islands laced with coral reefs and underwater volcanic topography. The result? A …
Portugal is to Europe what Bali is to Indonesia. It’s the surf haven of the whole continent, offering the most consistent swells across a veritable hodgepodge of breaks, some uber-famous, some totally hidden. You can come here to score peeling beachies that curl into the golden sands of the sunny Algarve. Or you can come to …