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The outrageously florid Böttingerhaus was built in the early eighteenth century for the privy councillor and elector Johann Ignaz Tobias Böttinger...https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/img_5211.jpgIMG_5211Bamberg's baroque bishop's palace was the work of Leonhard Dientzenhofer, one of a distinguished Bavarian dynasty who also supplied Prague with some of its most celebrated architects.https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/img_5274.jpgIMG_5274Bamberg isn't only memorable for its major monuments but also for the lost-in-time feel of its meandering historic streetshttps://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/img_5261.jpgIMG_5261The medieval fishermen's houses of Klein Venedig (Little Venice) line one side of the river Regnitz.https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/img_5266.jpgIMG_5266Rivalling the cathedral for dominance on Bamberg's skyline is the former Benedictine monastery of St Michael, commanding a hilltop site with sweeping views over the city. https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/img_52121.jpgIMG_5212Not even a grey winter's day can rob Bamberg's showpiece cathedral square of its looks. The city was for centuries an independent prince-bishopric, and this square was its nexus of ecclesiastical and temporal power. 2015-03-22T19:16:45+00:00monthlyhttps://travelneville.com/2013/12/20/spring-in-buenos-aires/https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf11771.jpgDSCF1177https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf11691.jpgDSCF1169https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf11661.jpgDSCF1166https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf11641.jpgDSCF1164https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf10981.jpgDSCF1098https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf10931.jpgDSCF1093https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf10911.jpgDSCF1091https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf10851.jpgDSCF1085https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf10391.jpgDSCF1039https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dscf1186.jpgDSCF11862017-06-08T16:35:09+00:00monthlyhttps://travelneville.com/2012/10/25/timeless-sanary-sur-mer/https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_0778-web.jpgIMG_0778 webSanary is a beach resort, but it's very low key: no fancy Riviera style beach concessions here.https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_0765-web.jpgIMG_0765 webThe old-fashioned bandstand could hardly look more Frenchhttps://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_0766-web.jpgIMG_0766 webPretty as a jigsaw puzzle, Sanary's fishing harbour is the key to its appealhttps://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_0770-web.jpgIMG_0770 webSybille Bedford's former home in Chemin du Diable isn't nearly so grand as Huxley'shttps://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_0771-web.jpgIMG_0771 webSpeaking of Huxley, this is his former home - the Villa Huley. A French stonemason made a typo while carving 'Huxley' into the gatepost, but the couple liked the name so much they kept it. 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The sun shone all day, but the day after the heavens opened, it rained incessantly and summer suddenly seemed a distant memory. It wasn't quite yet the start of winter, but a useful reminder that the Almabtrieb is a practical necessity as well as a much-loved seasonal ritual.https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_7218.jpgIMG_7218Music aside, there were 'live' displays of woodcarving, rug-weaving and broom-makinghttps://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_7161.jpgIMG_7161For young and old alike, it's an opportunity to wear traditional costume and show off traditional local skills, from music-making to craftshttps://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_7158.jpgIMG_7158When the procession reaches the village, the cows are put out to pasture in a field while the serious business of eating, drinking and celebration begins. If the weather is as glorious as it was in 2012, it's a fine opportunity to enjoy one of the last warm days of the year.https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_71531.jpgIMG_7153In Russbach near St Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut, the headdresses are richly-decorated works of folk art.https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_7153.jpgIMG_7153https://travelneville.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/img_7141.jpgIMG_7141Bringing the cows down from the mountains isn't just a necessity, it's one of the great folk rituals of the mountains. Each year the cows are brought down to the valley in a festive procession known as the Almabtrieb. 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