La Cheppe is a very small village in the Marne, surrounded by the enormous open agricultural plain of Champagne. There is little in the modern settlement to suggest that, immediately beside it, an earthwork more than two thousand years old survives on a scale large...
Vendresse is a small village in the French Ardennes, but the Domaine de Vendresse gives it a character that is very different from an ordinary rural stop. At first sight the site looks almost like a family leisure park built around ponds: there are fish, aquariums,...
Bouillon was one of the places where the relationship between the town and its landscape was immediately obvious. The Semois makes a deep curve through the Ardennes, the houses occupy the narrow ground beside the river, and directly above them the enormous Château...
Préizerdaul was another of the smaller places we encountered while travelling through western Luxembourg, and our first impression came from a very practical point of view. On 4 September we stopped at the parking area in the centre with our motorhome. It seemed...
Pommerloch was not a sightseeing stop for us. We stopped here for a much more ordinary reason: to do our grocery shopping. Yet this small Luxembourg village, only a few kilometres from Belgium, turned out to be a particularly good place to understand something that is...
