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The French Riviera in Pictures – Pt 1 Cannes and Antibes

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The French Riviera in Pictures - Pt 1 Cannes and Antibes

As much as I like producing posts which gives some background information about a place I’ve been to, it’s impossible to write in-depth articles about everywhere, and sometimes it’s better to just put a gallery of images together rather than not produce a post at all.

The French Riviera is one of those places where a picture can paint a thousand words and I’m starting with the area around Cannes and Antibes. All these photographs were taken in 2005.

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An Introduction to the Stockholm Archipelago

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An Introduction to the Stockholm Archipelago

Apparently, there are somewhere between 24,000 and 30,000 islands in the Stockholm Archipelago. It depends of course on how big a lump of rock needs to be in order for it to be considered an island, but whichever way you look at it, there are lots. From the city centre, the archipelago extends eastwards for some 37 miles out to the Baltic Sea, where a myriad of islands then run in a north-south direction along the coastline, roughly between Arholma and Landsort.

Some of the islands are large, and some are tiny, but Stockholmers love them all – and that’s because they love the great outdoors. Every summer, many of them head out to these islands where they can live in harmony with nature before winter starts to close in again.

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Originally posted 2022-05-14 15:58:20.