A night cruise on the Seine

OUR GRAND EUROPEAN ADVENTURE

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May 15th 2013
Leaving Poitiers this morning, we had a long and fairly boring drive to Paris, stopping for lunch at Orleans of Joan of Arc fame. It's quite a pretty town but there's not much of any real interest there. We arrived in Paris early in the afternoon and our tour headed for Montparnesse tower where Nicola, Cath and Jake went up to the top for a look out over Paris (I'm terrified of heights ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more