TRAVEL Exploring the glamour of the French Riviera
IT was Somerset Maugham who summed up the Côte d’Azur as “a sunny place for shady people” – as apt a description as it is brilliant.
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Robin McKelvie has been travel writing since 1995 when he ventured from Uphall Station to Hong Kong by train. After two decades exploring he still “finds Scotland the world’s most remarkable country”. The author of 30+ guidebooks, thousands of articles for magazines and newspapers across five continents and a regular broadcaster, Robin lives to travel. Especially around his native land. Follow Robin in the Sunday National and on Twitter.
Robin McKelvie has been travel writing since 1995 when he ventured from Uphall Station to Hong Kong by train. After two decades exploring he still “finds Scotland the world’s most remarkable country”. The author of 30+ guidebooks, thousands of articles for magazines and newspapers across five continents and a regular broadcaster, Robin lives to travel. Especially around his native land. Follow Robin in the Sunday National and on Twitter.
IT was Somerset Maugham who summed up the Côte d’Azur as “a sunny place for shady people” – as apt a description as it is brilliant.
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