15 Best Things to Do in Markham (Ontario, Canada)
Part of the Greater Toronto Area, Markham is a melting pot of cultures, a high-tech hub and a place where old meets new. It is a city of rolling hills, …
15 Best Things to Do in Orly (France)
You’ll already know the name of this southern Parisian by the airport. And while that isn’t a poetic way to sum up Orly, it’s not really known as a holiday …
15 Best Things to Do in Cholet (France)
This town in the Pays de Loire was caught up in the French Revolution worse than any other in the country. There was a cataclysmic battle here in 1793, when …
15 Best Things to Do in Douai (France)
On the Scarpe River, Douai is a city that has reinvented itself many times. Up to the 1700s it grew rich trading wool, which was packed onto barges along the …
15 Best Things to Do in Aubagne (France)
Aubagne is a refreshingly un-touristy town a few kilometres from Marseille. But even if it doesn’t show up in many guides there are lots of little things to love about …
15 Best Things to Do in Cavaillon (France)
On an eastern spur of the Luberon Range, Cavaillon is a mid-sized Provençal town in bucolic countryside. The fertile soils around nourish all kinds of fresh fruit, like the lauded …
15 Best Things to Do in Dole (France)
Balancing on a limestone ridge above the River Doubs, Dole is a lovely old city in north of the Jura Range. Holy Roman Emperors and Counts of Burgundy stayed in …
15 Best Things to Do in Agde (France)
On the coast of Languedoc in southwest France, Agde is a town with two faces. There’s an historic core on the left bank of the Hérault, while Cap d’Agde by …
15 Best Things to Do in Mandelieu-la-Napoule (France)
The next town around the bay from Cannes is this enticing seaside escape under San Peyre, an extinct volcano. The coast is rocky in Mandelieu-la-Napoule, at the point where the …
15 Best Things to Do in Dreux (France)
In Northern Central France, Dreux is just over an hour west of Paris on the boundary with Normandy. Although it’s a smallish town there’s a lot to see, like the …