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an industrial city in western France on the Loire River

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But if you want to go abroad, let's go!" she said, And trying to appear interested in the proposed tour, she began talking of the preparations for the journey.
The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were recalled; his solitary ways, his sudden departure; and it seemed clear that, in undertaking a tour round the world on the pretext of a wager, he had had no other end in view than to elude the detectives, and throw them off his track.
Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour, and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northwards than Derbyshire.
But at all events, this couple were very decently contented, and enjoyed as pleasant a summer tour as any pair that left England that year.
Then, if your view ran along the bank, from east to west, from the Tournelle to the Tour de Nesle, there was a long cordon of houses, with carved beams, stained-glass windows, each story projecting over that beneath it, an interminable zigzag of bourgeois gables, frequently interrupted by the mouth of a street, and from time to time also by the front or angle of a huge stone mansion, planted at its ease, with courts and gardens, wings and detached buildings, amid this populace of crowded and narrow houses, like a grand gentleman among a throng of rustics.
Students furnished more of a crowd and more noise there than artisans, and there was not, properly speaking, any quay, except from the Pont Saint-Michel to the Tour de Nesle.
Those which first caught the eye were the Bernardins, with their three bell towers; Sainte-Geneviève, whose square tower, which still exists, makes us regret the rest; the Sorbonne, half college, half monastery, of which so admirable a nave survives; the fine quadrilateral cloister of the Mathurins; its neighbor, the cloister of Saint-Benoit, within whose walls they have had time to cobble up a theatre, between the seventh and eighth editions of this book; the Cordeliers, with their three enormous adjacent gables; the Augustins, whose graceful spire formed, after the Tour de Nesle, the second denticulation on this side of Paris, starting from the west.
But I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers or enter into their feelings or plans with the good humour expected from a guest; and accordingly I told Clerval that I wished to make the tour of Scotland alone.
The management at Southern California Private Tours spent much time researching what is most important to its guests during this special time of year.
Foison Golf Club's Dye Course in Guangzhou will host three 2019 PGA Tour Series-China Qualifying Tournaments, and then the Series will make history when it holds for the first time its final Global Qualifying event outside of Greater China.
The inner sources stated that senators had availed nearly 246 foreign torus during the past three years and millions of rupees spent on these tours.
That is why more and more people have been relying on the services of tour guides and travel agencies.
Raja Tours is involved in the conceptualization of the annual Ambassadors' Tour program and is a partner of the DOT in the development of tourism in the country.
My Name is Tom Waggoner, and I was wondering if you could provide me with some information about some of your adventure tours," replied Dr.
In a recent report, Apple Daily quoted the Taipei Association of Travel Agents deputy chairman Ko Mu-chou as saying that the number of Chinese tourists entering Taiwan with package tours had dropped by as much as 50 percent since Lunar New Year.