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Canary Islands: 7 Small Paradises

I love Canary Islands. And the Canary Islands are probably one of my top spots in Europe, where there is always spring. You are an archipelago consisting of seven main islands and six smaller islands about 100 kilometers from the north-west coast of Africa at the height of Morocco and the Western Sahara. The islands were formed by volcanoes and the wind from the Sahara Desert. Each is different especially. A good old friend of mine lives on Fuerteventura, a few years ago I had visited them and as a child I attended with my family in Gran Canaria and remember wonderful vacations there.

If I manage it somehow, then I would love to soon also like away from the large and well-known visit once again and other islands, of which one often hears so little (La Gomera and El Hierro, for example). Why the Canary Islands are also interesting for me as a world traveler? I'm just saying: diving, surfing, trekking, wine, horny Beaches, a few hours flight, warm winter and a language with which I can handle! Plenty of reasons why my girlfriend has settled there some years ago. And yes, there are hostels on the islands to satisfy. And from given rise, namely a cool sweepstakes in which you can win a trip to one of the seven main islands of the Canaries, I thought to myself, I make this post with something fancy it.

The Seven Canary Heavens

El Hierro: Popular for diving
La Palma: Also known as the beautiful island. Green, lots of nature, ideal for walkers and Ökofreunde and with his sensational sky, the island is the hot spot for stargazers.
La Gomera: The second smallest island of the Canary Islands, more than 1,400 meters high. Has many different vegetation zones, thrilling to explore.
Tenerife: Known for the Teide, a volcano and Spain's highest mountain, surrounded by a bizarre lava desert. It is quiet and lonely, an area for dreamers and dreamers.
Gran Canaria: The Partymecca, but not only for all-inclusive holiday. Volcanic scenery, great beaches. Often undervalued.
Fuerteventura: The island for all wind and water sports: surfing, windsurfing, kite surfing - all there. Beautiful beaches and bays, cool bars.
Lanzarote: A different kind of the Canary Islands. Volcanic moonscape crater, black sand. Lots of wine culture and the great National Park of Timanfaya.

Have you ever been in the Canary Islands?

Poitou-Charentes, Kaleidoscope Marked Landscapes

Poitou-Charentes, France is a Land of Tradition.

From the west to the borders of the Charente Vienna remote cantons of Deux-Sèvres in Charente-Maritime coast, the Parlanjhe or patois Poitou-Saintonge, is this powerful cultural medium that can make the big difference between countries with a strong character.

Poitou-Charentes, we boarded a barge and was allowed to drift along the Charente, and then takes his pilgrim's staff and recites the rosary is Romanesque wonders spin on the road to Saint -Jacques. Partout the magic happens. Everywhere wonderful outweighs the story.

But the monuments of Poitou-Charentes are not all religious. There are great fortresses, as illustrated Fort Boyard and Coudray-Salbart impregnable, delicious picturesque villages, rural and marine, unusual cities of Rochefort Brouage and Richelieu, eminently military route, but also enigmatic caves and the fabulous Marais Poitevin.

The contrasts are strong in Poitou-Charentes, and this region, both festive and secret seaside and rural, modern and rustic, has something to offer everyone. Some dream of a trip to Futuroscope, others wish to relax on the beaches of dream Ré or Oléron. Poitou-Charentes is dotted with countless small architectural treasures. To believe that a good fairy (Melusine) has been there!

Picardie, France - The Champion of France

Picardie, France - Set Foot in Picard Country

Unknowingly, many readers when they rave about the beauty of the Cathedral of Beauvais, the richness of Chantilly Castle Museum or the charm of Gerberoy, operetta real village 100 km from Paris, not know that they have already set foot in Picard country!.

Picardie, France. Of course, is the champion of France for sugar beet, wheat and potato, but it is also one of the last terra incognita of France. Besides the fabulous bird park Marquenterre, Picardy offers many other preserved natural sites (the Halatte forest green Thiérache), a string of religious anthology as Laon Cathedral or the Basilica of St. buildings Quentin and many traditions and customs still very much alive, as Picard speak. The Somme, wide notch that opens generously on the Channel, went to get all ranges of gray and blue. And the charm works immediately.

Picardie, France Attractions

Of course, the cathedral of Amiens is the figurehead cultural Picardy, but fans abbeys, stunning rural churches, extraordinary gardens and ruined castles leave to the discovery of a hinterland of rich and come back amazed.

Finally, in Picardie, France emotion guaranteed when visiting the battlefields of the Somme in 1916. Similarly, why not return overwhelmed by the incredible courage of the fighters Chemin des Dames. Let yourself be surprised by the Picardy region discreet but rich, and welcome to the Picards, Picardie, France!.

Strasbourg, France - A Lovely City, Offering A Delicious Romantic Face

Strasbourg, France -

Strasbourg, France. Regional, economic and cultural capital of Alsace and European capital since 1949 with the Council of Europe and the seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg officially acquired in 1992, the beautiful Alsatian takes full advantage of these honors. It was a sacred manna that the arrival of these institutions, rich elected affluent and their collaborators. In some areas, property prices rival those of Paris or Nice beautiful neighborhoods.

Traditional markets well attended Christmas markets through the Musica festival, Strasbourg knows how to charm. The success is not mounted at the head of a city went almost without transition from being quiet than European regional capital city. Strasbourg has not thrown wildly into the arms of developers to lift a concrete twenty-first century fashion. Instead, we find a lovely city, offering a delicious romantic face. It is not a coincidence that the historic center of Strasbourg, a real big island brought back to life by a traffic plan well studied, which we have largely driven the car was registered by the Unesco World Heritage.

In addition to the rich architectural heritage of Strasbourg, you will discover a city in exune rare commodity: silence and birdsong!. And if the sacrosanct Winstub disappeared for the most part, tea , terraces, trendy places open to all street corners, or almost.

Ardèche, France - Beauty Comes Here

Ardèche -Drôme, France

Why this pairing? Because in our view the Ardèche, France and Drome departments are twins, twin land. Born in the same land, they have an air of family while being very different.

The Ardèche, France is marked by stunning scenery of rocks and deep gorges, canyons like. The Wild West in the horizon of Valencia. The county (formerly National) 86, which crosses the Ardèche, France, is one of the most beautiful roads in the Hexagon, Ardèche, France along the slopes of gray velvet and emerald, where high perched here and there peak, a village or castle, and through smiling villages.

Ardèche, France - Amazing Scenery

The Drôme is not left splendor. Since the slopes of the wild high plateaus, to the gentle hills of the Romans. Since the savage river Drôme who has never seen a dam and where the summer, the water flows like bronze between the gravel and up the Drôme Provençale.

Even if it is richer and more populous, if it has cities along its Rhône when the Ardèche, France has only towns along his, Drôme perhaps lost in mystery what it gains in space, perhaps strange that it gets smooth.

Auvergne, France - At the Heart of France

Auvergne, France

Since Vercingetorix, Auvergne, France, high country with leaden baldness, glossy soaked by rain and oxygen arises mystical dungeon France.

Shivering in the ECIR (the mountain wind), just waiting to find a new life under the sign of clean air silence and contemplative hike heart melancholic and dramatic landscapes that are among the most unique and best preserved in Europe.

Auvergne, France - Highlands

Auvergne, France color coal towns, large high as those of Mongolia grassland, infernal fumes and paradisiacal valleys, not forgetting, of course, some nice specimens of Auvergne, France: suspicious at first, jokers to the second (Fernand Raynaud was Allier), and generous when the ice is broken.

Today, the Auvergne, France is one of the preferred destinations for green eyes of those seeking the charm and authenticity. Even spas are no longer smile.

And what beautiful Auvergne, France cover tables, large, small, known, marginal, quiet, volcanic.

Lyon, France - A Handover Between the North and the South

Lyon France And Its Surroundings

French and foreign magazines set the tone , putting themselves in 2020 in Lyon and seeing the " Grand Lyon France, " one of the major European cities of the future economically , but also culturally . Lovers of large urban areas preserved to enjoy a green city having regained its banks , a city where pedestrians, cyclists , trams share the space , a city with green towers, bringing the countryside in the heart of neighborhoods reconstruction.

By dint of seeing in Lyon a handover between the North and the South, many people are still content to slip to go to the sea or mountains . Lyon knew the beauty of their city, but discrete in the soul, they have never said anything. Except for friends, they invited to discover the small hidden Croix-Rousse addresses to the Sunday market before visiting their gardens.

Lyon France, City Of The Past

Attached to its traditions , its circles , Lyon france is also, and this is what makes its strength and charm, a trendy city , a city of creators. A city where the art of living is more "art " than the pig , in case you 'd still like the old "plugs" that some things in their juice. A city where young leaders are kings.

At the gates of the city of gons , the department of Loire derives a portion of its resources namesake river , which makes it a rich tradition boatmen . The department of the Loire, it is also St. Stephen , which displays its label City of Art and History, Roanne, "City and crafts " , its historical center and marina on the Loire but also villages with medieval architecture concealing small chapels , sometimes perched on volcanic buttes, grape of Beaujolais , Mount Pilat and countless hiking opportunities .