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I discovered this past February that there is a place in France with a majestic wild river, the nation’s largest collections of musical instruments and stage costumes, medieval and Belle Époque towns, orchards and vineyards, rolling green countryside criss-crossed by hedges and punctuated by majestic oak-trees, lovingly restored villages unspoilt by modern housing developments, a UNESCO World Heritage site and, despite all this, no crowds.
I was born in Cairo, Egypt, but left (with my parents naturally!) when I was just three weeks old. For some strange reason I’d never felt any particular desire to return to my native country but I was bitten by the Egypt bug on my trip down the Nile (see previous post). That had left me a little frustrated because we’d flown directly to Luxor skipping Cairo altogether and I really wanted to see the museums in the capital and, on a more personal quest, see if the building where I had spent a few nights as a newborn still stood.
I have to confess that if I’d been asked a couple of months ago to name the Czech Republic’s second city I would have drawn a blank. It is, of course, the somewhat hard to pronounce, Brno (and you must roll the -r), a charming town that I was able to visit all too briefly in December 2021 thanks to the French Association of Journalists in Tourism (AJT) which held its 2021 Annual General Meeting in the city, an event organised with the help of the Czech Tourist Board. Thank you to both!
