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Ghent or Bruges - Which to Choose?
Living in Cologne, Germany, it's great being close enough to Belgium to visit it in a weekend by train. We visit whenever we've had...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 23, 20184 min read
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Beautiful Burgundy - Photo Story
One of the biggest surprises during our French road trip this summer was Burgundy. We'd only planned to visit Dijon, but we heard that...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 17, 20181 min read
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Spring in Paris - Cherry Blossoms, Rooftops and April Showers
When we booked a trip to Paris in April, we were gutted to be missing the Bonn Cherry Blossom Festival (Kircheblutenfest) near our home...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 17, 20182 min read
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6 Reasons to Stay Overnight in Obidos
Most people who visit Obidos, which is about an hour from Lisbon on the bus, come for the day. We stayed for three nights (which...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 12, 20183 min read
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Four Dinners in Paris
Paris has one of the best culinary reputations in the world, so on our second visit to Paris, we wanted to focus on that aspect of the...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 11, 20182 min read
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Parisian Food Tour with Le Food Trip
On our first visit to Paris we took in all the main sights, climbed a lot of towers, stood in a lot of queues. This time, though, we we...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 11, 20182 min read
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Colourful Obidos, Portugal - Photo Story
Most people visit Obidos on a day trip from Lisbon, but we spent three whole nights there! Even our B&B hosts were amazed that we...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 11, 20181 min read
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An Italian Tasting Menu at IO Osteria, Florence
If you eat at one place in Florence, make it IO Osteria Personale! I did a lot of research into restaurants that offer tasting menus in...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 10, 20181 min read
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Why You Should Stay the Night in San Marino
San Marino, a tiny microstate surrounded on all sides Italy, has a problem it wants to fix: the majority of people who visit come only...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 10, 20181 min read
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Milan to San Marino - A Week in Italy
In October 2017 Patrick and I spent a week driving from Milan to San Marino and back again, in the smallest car of all time. Despite...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 10, 20184 min read
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Reasons to Visit the Alps - Photo Story
This summer we embarked on a three-week road trip of the Swiss, Austrian and Bavarian Alps. This Photo Story aims to prove why the Alps...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 10, 20181 min read
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Winter in Norway - Photo Story
One of the most spectacular trips I've been on was visiting Norway in the middle of winter: highlights included spending New Year's Eve...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 10, 20181 min read
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Orange Italy - Photo Story
We visited Italy (and San Marino) for a week in October 2017, and when I got home and had the chance to look at all my photos, I noticed...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 10, 20181 min read
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Beer-Free Bavaria - What else to do!
If we're playing word association, when most people hear the word 'Bavaria' they probably conjure up a mental image of gigantic beer...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 9, 20184 min read
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Norfolk Through a Lens - Photo Story
My favourite shots from beautiful Norfolk, a county so quintessentially English that even I, an English person, felt like I'd stepped...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 8, 20181 min read
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Cambridge in Bloom - Photo Story
In June this year I was in the very privileged position of being able to access all of Cambridge University's beautiful colleges for free....
Lucy and the lens
Sep 8, 20181 min read
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Warsaw in a Weekend - Pierogi Tips!
Tempted by £20 Ryanair flights from Cologne to Warsaw, we spent 48 hours in Warsaw, mostly - let's be honest here - hunting for the best...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 8, 20181 min read
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4 Ways to Play Make-Believe in London
I firmly believe that you can never be bored in London...as long as you're not spending all your hard earned wages on outrageous rental...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 8, 20184 min read
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My Top London Lunches and Afternoon Teas
When I lived in London, my rent was so high that I couldn't afford to eat out very often! But since moving to Germany, my trips back to...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 8, 20188 min read
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Ghent's Most Exciting Menu
Living in Germany, Belgium is just a couple of hours away on the train. We can nip over for the weekend if we want to. And we have the...
Lucy and the lens
Sep 4, 20181 min read
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