Tag: city break
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Dunkirk
Travelling from Belgium home to Cambridge via a French ferry. That was how we ended up in Dunkirk on this smooth and icy surface of sand. Industrial, open. T here wasn’t much time or much to see. We we were here for a moment, only imagining what it would have been like to escape the…
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Brugge
Beautiful Brugge, my second visit, this time for the Christmas Markets. Fourteen of us made the ferry voyage from England; one travelled via train from Brussels. We were a large group in a small city, and we all had a wonderful time. Disorganized, but together to kickoff the holiday season. Chocolate, beer, waffles, and all.
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Lissewege
Little Lissewege, fifteen minutes outside of Brugge via train. It was so quiet and cobbled; sometimes, we felt that we were the only people there. To the market, in the pub, on the platform – we *were* the only people. Our AirBnb, a renovated cafe, slept all 15 of us comfortably. And that’s what brought…
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Dublin
One day in Dublin, better than no days in Dublin for sure. Ireland is so close to England that it’s often very easy to find insanely cheap flights back and forth between the islands – sometimes within the same day. That was how I found myself at the Cliffs of Moher on a random mid-week…
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