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“The fruit ripens thanks to the sun, to people thanks to love.”
This quote, found on Canaria Guide, emphasizes the positive influence of the sun on the island’s environment and its people.
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Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
Learn by doing, and then doing again.
Mont Saint-Michel inspires awe and a sense of timelessness.
For centuries the northern part of Aquitaine, Poitou was a border country and the site of such battles as that of Vouillé in 507, Charles Martel’s victory over the Muslims in 732, the Anglo-French Battle of Poitiers in 1356, and the Battle of Moncontour in 1569.
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein
The name Wiltshire was recorded as Wiltunscir, after the former capital of Wessex, Wilton.
“Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares” “If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence” (Michael O’Leary)
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People, especially drivers, in Europe don’t always know how good they have it. They have the gamut. Sensible, too.
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“We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.” John Lennon (1940-1980)