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Dunes and Dragons: The Beaches of Tentsmuir
This is Tentsmuir National Nature Reserve where the landscape changes before your eyes. Unspoilt, peaceful, and beautiful, the reserve has the full spectrum of coastal habitats, from constantly moving sand at the edge of the sea to the colourful dune heathland.
The Tree of Love | The Lebanese Cedar Tree of Piemonte
Romantic, majestic, and dominant, the “Cedro di Libano” can be seen from almost any vantage point in the Barolo area. From the top of the vine-covered hill, this cedar tree has incredibly witnessed the Langhe wine region's metamorphosis for the last 165 years.
The Glorious 12th: Grouse Season in Scotland
People from across Scotland and the rest of the UK, Europe and increasingly the wider world, are prepared to pay thousands of pounds per day for the experience of participating in a grouse shoot on a Highland estate. For some it’s the thrill of the chase, the opportunity to test their skills and to enjoy the camaraderie of like-minded friends in an iconic setting. For others, it’s the opportunity to join in a ritual which for so long has been the preserve of the elite, the landed gentry.
The Blue Line of the Vosges Mountains
“The Blue Line of the Vosges Mountains” (translated from “La ligne bleue des Vosges”), comes from the fact that after the Franco- Prussian War (the War of 1870), Germany annexed what we always refer to as Alsace Lorraine but was more precisely Alsace and Moselle (just a part of Lorraine), and the Vosges regained their status as a border between France and Germany. So this line became the symbol of the French revenge and animosity against the Germans and remained that way until the First World War.