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Welcome to Niaqornat, Northwest Greenland. Population: 59. Dogs outnumber people in this surreal and remote settlement with no more than 15 houses in total. If the population falls below 50, government ministers have talked about stopping the supply ships that pass through every few weeks between May and December and relocating the people of Niaqornat. When [...]
A few weeks ago, through my endless network of Paris links, I stumbled upon a heavenly website called “Et si on se promenait à Paris“, translation: And what if we walked around Paris? Browsing through this captivating blog, it soon becomes very clear that the editor and photographer, Mademoiselle Audrey F, knows that there’s taking [...]
I‘ve heard Fucking is fabulous in the Spring. Too old for schoolyard humor? Never! It has a population of just 104 and lies 4 kilometres from the German border in west Austria. And it’s name really is Fucking. The unfortunately-named village (pronounced fooking) is a peaceful place. The only crime ever reported here was for the [...]
Paris lies is the center of Ile-de-France, the most populated region in the country with more residents than Austria, Belgium, Greece, Portugal or Sweden alone. It boasts the world’s fourth-largest and Europe’s wealthiest and largest regional economy. But one small corner of the region paints a very different picture. Just a thirty minute drive north [...]
It boasts 19 buildings with traditional French features, including a swimming pool, tennis court, stables, a chapel, village hall and acres of land, but only had an asking price of 330,000 Euros. At such an outlandish price, the abandoned hamlet of Courbefy soon caught the attention of the international media, interest sky-rocketed and gave the [...]
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