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The Wall House, Groningen. All photos courtesy of Marketing Groningen The Martini Tower Groninger Museum The world's smallest hotel, Eenrum

Low country highlights

It may seem tucked away in the north of the Netherlands, far from all the action, but that has perhaps been a benefit to Groningen

A return to innocence

Guernsey and nearby Herm island are untouched by the major fast food and coffee shop chains, and amusement parks and arcades. Instead visitors are free to concentrate on the simple things in life like beaches, rock pools, coastal walks and relaxed cafés.

A cross-border incursion

The Lower Rhine region, which straddles Germany and the Netherlands, is full of pleasant surprises.

  • All the flavour of Flanders
  • Another side of Tenerife
  • Austria, without the skis
  • The new centre of Europe
  • Northern line services face disruption
  • Road revamp in Potters Bar

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