 | from James Martin
In just about a month we'll be heading off to Europe again. We'll visit Lucca, my favorite small(er) town in Italy, as well as places in France, Germany and Turkey. And who knows where else, but I'd really like to get up to North Holland again. Thus the feature article on Enkhuizen, a Dutch port town with some pretty interesting features.
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In the Spotlight | Destination of the Week: Enkhuizen Holland
Sure, you may never have heard of Enkhuizen, but it was a big player during the golden era of the Dutch East Indies Trading Company. Today Enkhuizen is a well preserved town with visible fortifications and home to the sprawling Zuiderzee Museum, an open air exhibition to the way things were "way back when."
| | Lucca, Italy
This is one of my favorite places in Italy these days, a walled city that's just the right size to spend a day or two wandering around. There's great shopping, wonderful public squares, and you can rent a bike or just stroll on top of its defensive walls to get great views of the city. For an overview, you can climb Guinigi Tower and see it all below you while getting shade from the Holm oaks that live "way up there."
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Top Picks - Provence Books by Peter Mayle from your Europe Travel Guide | ![]() | | If you've longed to go to Provence, perhaps part of that longing is the writing of Peter Mayle, who bought property in the Luberon and set about scuttling the countryside for artifacts of a lost culture. | | 1) A year in Provence
This is where you start, Mayle takes his British sensibilities and moves them to sunny Provence, buying a 200 year-old farmhouse in the Luberon with all the stuff people dream about when thinking of a Mediterranean move--vines, wine cellar, shade trees, and a thick-walled sturdy building that has survived centuries. He describes a year in Provence, month by mouthwatering and funny month. 2) Toujours Provence
A continuation of the book above, a humorous look at the people and their lifestyles in the small villages of Provence and the challenges of a Brit trying to live well in rural France. 3) Hotel Pastis: A novel of Provence
In this fictional account of a hotel in Provence, Mayle makes good use of the characters he's so good at observing. An advertising wonk is convinced by a beguiling French woman to take on construction of a half-built hotel in the town of "Brassiere-les-Deux-Eglises." |
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In the southwest of Sicily, the Val di Noto, sometimes called the Baroque Valley, is home to a number of interesting towns with major buildings decked out in the unique style called the Sicilian Baroque. I really like this part of Sicily. Take a look at the pictures. |
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