My Travel blog

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...

Haut-Martelange is one of those places where understanding what lies beneath the ground completely changes the way the landscape looks. At first it appears to be a very small settlement in the far west of Luxembourg, almost pressed against the Belgian border. In...

Boulaide brought another change of landscape during our journey through Luxembourg. After travelling through the west of the country, this was already unmistakably the Éislek: higher ground, wooded slopes, deep valleys and the River Sûre winding through a landscape...

Redange-sur-Attert was one of the most straightforward motorhome stops of our journey through Luxembourg. After the castles, industrial towns and more unusual landscapes we had been exploring elsewhere in the country, Redange offered something rather different: a...

Koerich was a very different stop from the industrial towns we had been visiting in southern Luxembourg. After Rumelange, Esch-sur-Alzette, Dudelange and Differdange, the landscape changed again. Instead of mines, steelworks and former industrial ground, Koerich...

Differdange was another stop on our route through the industrial south of Luxembourg, following places such as Rumelange, Esch-sur-Alzette and Dudelange. By this point the Minett no longer felt like a collection of unrelated towns. Each place showed us a different...