Tag: Europe
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Cap Canaille
On top of the red cliff, the one that we had been staring at all weekend from the harbor. The one that dominates the sky. Cap Canaille is the highest seacliff in all of France. The sea, the calanques, the marina; all below, all bathed in fog. The thunder rolled in from a distance. The…
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Calanque d’En Vau
I’ll never have the words to describe how the Calanques make me feel. My third visit, and I still feel as though I am dreaming each time I walk on to the beach and am blinded by the blue. It’s the most vivid, sparkling, piercing blue. Blue that breaks only with the silence, with a…
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Port de Cassis
Cassis, Sud de France, La Méditerranée. Fresh. Vibrant. That blue. The cicadas never stop singing. Smells like a blend of pastries and flowers. Looks like several buckets of paint exploded. I didn’t feel sad when we left, couldn’t feel sad, because I can’t imagine never returning. I always come back. It’s such a part of me…
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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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