The second potential world wonder candidate we visited on our trip after Carcassonne was Millau viaduct, and in this post I fulfil Niall’s request to share my thoughts on this second candidate too. For background, here are Niall’s own preview and review. In a few punchy sentences, though, Millau viaduct can be introduced as the tallest…
The best thing about travel is when something pops up to give you a pleasant surprise. In the case of our road trip through southern France it was the beautiful city and cathedral of Albi. Recommended as a good stop-off on our journey, we spent three or four hours there and were hugely impressed by…
The French roadtrip revolved around three potential wonders on Niall’s candidate list. In the end we only saw two of the three – Carcasonne Old City and Millau viaduct. There wasn’t time or energy in the end for the papal palace at Avignon this time, but we did stumble across somewhere quite impressive that Niall…
Our European adventure was effectively two different holidays in one. Part two, which I’ll cover in later posts, was a trip Nicole and I took to Austria. The first half, though, was a road trip with a group of good friends from Aberdeen. Our main purpose was piggybacking on Niall‘s visits to three south of…
I’m sure I’ve previously pointed you towards my good friend Niall’s blog about his travels around the world as an oil rig worker. Well, he’s quit both job and blog to go travelling for a few years. It’s not just any old trip, though – it’s a tour of nearly a hundred famous monuments in…