THE traveller leaving St Pancras on the new Eurostar route departs from a huge, cathedral-like building of beauty and ambition, only to arrive in the dim and uninspiring Gare Du Nord. It is, even ...
Talk about a warm welcome. I arrived at my hotel in medieval Angers at the very moment a regimental band marched past, the stirring sounds of the Marseillaise reverberating around the sun-drenched ...