July 3, 2012
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A Travel Guide to Top Family Resorts in France Updated: July 3, 2020 | By Claire | More France is one of the most sought after vacation destinations in Europe and for a very good reason. It is not only about the famous wines, and magic of Paris, but also the beaches, the great resorts […]
Tags: berck, best-resorts, bray-dunes, bustle, family-resorts, french-riviera, good-reason, great-resorts, infrance, les-sables, mediterranean-coast, north-coast, north-sea, sables-d-olonne, sand-beaches, southern-beaches, vacation-destinations, white-cliffs, white-sand, wines
Categories: France
January 31, 2012
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Harz National Park – one of the most visited places in Germany Updated: January 31, 2020 | By Claire | More Harz National Park known in German as Nationalparkverwaltung Harz is located at the border of three provinces in central Germany. The National Park is mostly forested – Upper Harz is covered by coniferous forests, […]
Tags: alpine-meadows, beautiful-places, bogs, brocken, castle-hill, central-germany, climatic-health-resort, coniferous-forests, crags, deciduous-forests, falkenstein-castle, geographical-location, germany, high-mountains, national-park, nationalpark-harz, nature, north-sea, northern-germany, ocean-air, places-in-germany, planning-your-trip, upper-harz
Categories: Germany, Nature
February 22, 2011
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Port of Rotterdam – the biggest port in Europe | Netherlands Updated: August 8, 2020 | By Claire | More Rotterdam is situated on the coast of the North Sea, it is the second largest city and second most important city in Netherlands (after Amsterdam). Here you can find the Port of Rotterdam which is […]
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Categories: Netherlands, Sights
January 10, 2011
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The Wadden Sea (Waddenzee) is one of the world’s most extraordinary and productive coastal ecosystems — a UNESCO World Heritage tidal flat system stretching 500 kilometres along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, where 10–12 million migratory birds stop each year to refuel on one of the planet’s greatest avian migration highways. This […]
Tags: biosphere-reserve, coastal-plain, den-helder, dries, dutch-coast, fauna-and-flora, flora-and-fauna, habitat, moist-land, mussels, netherlands, north-sea, outflow, river-ems, shock-waves, snails, tourist-area, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, unique-natural-habitat, wadden-sea, waddenzee
Categories: Nature, Netherlands
April 30, 2010
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The Netherlands is far more than Amsterdam’s canals and coffee shops — it is a small, densely populated, and remarkably innovative country where windmills still turn in the polders, fields of tulips paint the spring landscape in impossible colours, and a centuries-long battle against the sea has produced some of the most sophisticated water management […]
Tags: ancient-buildings, canals, caribbean-islands, constituent-country, constitutional-monarchy, featured, historical-monuments, holiday-by-the-sea, independent-island, interesting-places, kaleidoscope, kingdom-of-the-netherlands, lakes-reservoirs, netherlands, netherlands-antilles, netherlands-borders, north-sea, north-west-europe, sandy-beaches, spring-and-summer, tulips, water-reservoirs, windsurfing
Categories: All Countries, Netherlands
April 28, 2010
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Denmark is the Scandinavian kingdom of design, hygge, and boundless wind energy — a country where Viking history meets cutting-edge modern architecture, where every city is built around a bicycle lane, and where the coastline is never more than 52 kilometres away. Consistently ranked among the world’s happiest nations, Denmark offers travellers a unique blend […]
Tags: archipelago, baltic-sea, bornholm, canal-water, denmark, design, falster, featured, jylland, kiel-canal, kingdom-of-denmark, lolland, many-islands, minor-islands, nordic-countries, north-sea, northern-europe, peninsula-jutland, scandinavian-country, southernmost, water-passage, wind-energy
Categories: All Countries, Denmark
April 27, 2010
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Germany is the richest and most populous country in the European Union — an economic powerhouse at the heart of the continent whose gifts to the world range from the printing press and the Protestant Reformation to the automobile, Bach and Beethoven, and the Christmas market, and whose landscapes are as varied as a country […]
Tags: baltic-sea, belgium, bundesrepublik-deutschland, central-europe, czech-republic, denmark, featured, federal-republic-of-germany, germany, inhabitants, international-migrants, largest-population, luxembourg, member-states-of-the-european-union, netherlands, north-sea, poland, seasonal-climate, switzerland
Categories: All Countries, Germany
April 27, 2010
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The United Kingdom is one of the world’s most visited destinations — a union of four distinct nations (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) packed with more history, culture, and natural diversity per square mile than almost anywhere else on Earth. From the white cliffs of Dover to the Highlands of Scotland, from Shakespeare’s Stratford […]
Tags: archipelago, atlantic-ocean, channel-tunnel, continental-europe, featured, irish-sea, land-border, miracles, north-sea, northwestern-coast, republic-of-ireland, sovereign-state, united-kingdom, united-kingdom-of-great-britain, united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland
Categories: All Countries, United Kingdom