Martinique Island Guide
travelguru Cathy Bartrop takes us on a tour of the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Explaining the island's geography and highlighting the key attractions, discover the best places to stay and where to find the best beaches.
✅ TOP 10: Best Caribbean Beaches
Best Caribbean beaches, this video breaks down the top 10 beaches in the Caribbean islands.
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Overheard in French Ski Resorts
You've got to schuss this bit Margaret; you've got to schuss it!
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Go through to thefrenchpisteproject.com for more happenings in French resorts!
'Overheard in French Ski Resorts' was created and produced by All Conditions Media for French Mountains.
Edited and filmed by Johno Verity and starring:
Tof Henry
Lea Lavigne
Marcos Peters
Rosa Higgin
Dan Milner
Joe Pepper
Helen Lavender
Charlie Priestly
Additional cameras by @ChrisMoran with cameo by Harry Moran (as Julian). Filmed on location in Méribel, Coeur des 3 Vallées (Official), Val Thorens, Morzine, Avoriaz & Chamonix.
Bordeaux the Left and Right Banks
A quick run-through on the geography and geology of Bordeaux's Left and Right Banks
WHERE'S THE SNOW?! (2010) Official Trailer!
The official trailer for the electrifying and compellingly-unique new documentary on the Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, WHERE'S THE #@&%! SNOW?!, presented by Don't Panic Films & Sleepless in Reykjavik Productions.
Featuring Performances by Icelandic superstars:
Agent Fresco
Olafur Arnalds
Dikta
Esja
Mammút
Reykjavik!
Retro Stefson
Pall Oskar
Hjaltalin
Retron
Bróðir Svartúlfs
Kimono
Our Lives
Dr. Spock
and MANY more!
ABOUT ICELAND AIRWAVES:
Since the first show held in 1999 (in an airplane hangar), Iceland Airwaves has become one of the premier showcases for new music Icelandic and otherwise in the world. Its been called the most innovative music festival since CMJ and is as responsible for all of Reykjavíks positive press as Björk herself.
Some of the worlds most exciting artists - including Suede, The Flaming Lips, The Hives, Fatboy Slim, Thievery Corporation, Bloc Party, and Casio Kids - have made the short hop from Europe or North America to share the stages with Icelands finest talents: Sigur Rós, Gus Gus, Minus, Mugison, Jagúar, Dikta, Quarashi, Leaves, Trabant, FM Belfast, Steed Lord and many, MANY more. And when the live bands are finished, top DJs spin across the city until dawn...
WHERE'S THE #@&%! SNOW?! TRAILER PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Directed by Bowen Staines & Gunnar B. Gudbjornsson
Shot by Bowen Staines & Gunnar B. Gudbjornsson
Edited by Bowen Staines
Music by Olafur Arnalds
Courtesy of Erased Tapes Records
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Belgium - Exploring Brussels - Part 1
Brussels is Belgium’s capital and home to the headquarters of the European Union. The ornate Grand-Place at the heart of the city has shops and cafes inside 17th-century guildhouses, and the intricate Gothic Hôtel de Ville (town hall) with its distinctive bell tower. The 19th-century Maison du Roi houses the Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles history museum, including costumes for the city’s Manneken-Pis statue.
Source: Wikipedia
1 hour | The Brussels Grand Place, Belgium
The Grand Place or Grote Markt (Dutch) is the central square of Brussels. It is surrounded by opulent guildhalls and two larger edifices, the city's Town Hall, and the Breadhouse building containing the Museum of the City of Brussels. The square is the most important tourist destination and most memorable landmark in Brussels. It measures 68 by 110 metres (223 by 361 ft), and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In the 10th century, Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine constructed a fort on Saint-Géry Island, the furthest inland point at which the Senne river was still navigable. This was the seed of what would become Brussels. By the end of the 11th century, an open-air marketplace was set up on a dried-up marsh near the fort that was surrounded by sandbanks. The market was called the Nedermerckt, or Lower Market.
At the beginning of the 13th century, three indoor markets were built on the northern edge of the Grand Place; a meat market, a bread market and a cloth market. These buildings, which belonged to the Duke of Brabant, allowed the wares to be showcased even in bad weather, but also allowed the Dukes to keep track of the storage and sale of goods, in order to collect taxes. Other buildings, made of wood or stone, enclosed the Grand Place.
Improvements to the Grand Place from the 14th century onwards would mark the rise in importance of local merchants and tradesmen relative to the nobility. Short on money, the Duke transferred control of mills and commerce to the local authorities. The city of Brussels, as with the neighbouring cities of Mechelen and Leuven constructed a large indoor cloth market to the south of the square. At this point, the square was still haphazardly laid out, and the buildings along the edges had a motley tangle of gardens and irregular additions. The city expropriated and demolished a number of buildings that clogged the Grand Place, and formally defined the edges of the square.
The Brussels City Hall was built on the south side of the square in stages between 1401 and 1455, and made the Grand Place the seat of municipal power. It towers 96 metres (315 ft) high, and is capped by a 4-metre (12 ft) statue of Saint Michael slaying a demon or devil. To counter this symbol of municipal power, from 1504 to 1536 the Duke of Brabant built a large building across from the city hall as symbol of ducal power. It was built on the site of the first cloth and bread markets, which were no longer in use, and it became known as the King's House (Middle Dutch: 's Conincxhuys), although no king has ever lived there. It is currently known as the Maison du roi (King's House) in French, though in Dutch it continues to be called the Broodhuis (Breadhouse), after the market whose place it took. Wealthy merchants and the increasingly powerful guilds of Brussels built houses around the edge of the square.
On August 13, 1695, a 70,000-strong French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, began a bombardment of Brussels in an effort to draw the League of Augsburg's forces away from their siege on French-held Namur in what is now southern Belgium. The French launched a massive bombardment of the mostly defenseless city centre with cannons and mortars, setting it on fire and flattening the majority of the Grand Place and the surrounding city. Only the stone shell of the town hall and a few fragments of other buildings remained standing. That the town hall survived at all is ironic, as it was the principal target of the artillery fire.
The square was rebuilt in the following four years by the city's guilds. Their efforts were regulated by the city councillors and the Governor of Brussels, who required that their plans be submitted to the authorities for their approval. This helped to deliver a remarkably harmonious layout for the rebuilt Grand Place, despite the ostensibly clashing combination of Gothic, Baroque and Louis XIV styles.
The Grand Place continued to serve as a market until November 19, 1959, and it is still called the Great Market or Grote Markt in Dutch. Neighbouring streets still reflect the area's origins, named after the sellers of butter, cheese, herring, coal and so on. The Grand Place was named by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1998. One of the houses was owned by the brewers' guild, and is now the home of a brewers' museum.
The Grand Place was voted the most beautiful square in Europe in 2010. A survey by a Dutch website asked its users to rate different squares across Europe. Moscow’s Red Square and the Place Stanislas in Nancy, France, took second and third place.
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Retour d'Anse Couleuvre en Martinique
Le retour de la tres belle plage de sable noir Anse couleuvre a bord d'un 4X4 (qui a un peu de mal à monter) ... La route a elle seule vaut le déplacement : de la largeur d'une voiture , la végétation y est luxuriante , superbe ...