Travel

After a decent night’s sleep holed up in the Munich Arrabella Park Best Western, we could properly attack Munich. Sue went for a run, first thing, to the English Garden and got a bit lost. And then lost her room key. Breakfast was at the hotel and nice not to have to cook anything. With…

It’s another travel day. But thankfully, after the over night rain, it was dry when we woke up. It had rained a lot over night, but the van hasn’t shown any signs of leaking and we were completely dry through the rain… that’s not really camping is it? Both of us had a shower up…

It’s wet. There’s no getting over it… it’s wet. We woke up to it having rained since 2 in the morning and the awning had taken on too much water… it had pooled and looked like it might have broken it… bugger!. We thought we had enough drainage angle, one side of the awning lowered,…

We hadn’t got much planned today as we’d done a bit of exploring by bus yesterday and were planning to do one of the Black Forest key attractions, a water-fall, as we head out tomorrow. So we decided to take a bike ride into Bühl, about 12km away. We chose a fairly flat route still…

So we’re camping on the edge of the Black Forest and we’ve got a few days here. We also got given a public transport pass as part of the campsite fee, so we decided to use the bus system and go and have a look at Baden Baden. It turns out that you can take…

Today was another travel day, about 220km from Trier to Achern… on the West side of the Black Forest. It was a quick pack-up today as we hadn’t set everything up for just one night. We enjoyed the campsite and the husband and wife that ran it… at least their relationship! The husband was Dutch…

I’ve had a few questions come in after people have read the blog, so in the spirit of this blog (that’s “over sharing” in case you missed it) here’s the questions, and then the answers – if you’re a pictures person then this post isn’t for you! 🤣 That’s enough for now, let’s get to…

Day 10 already! I’ve had a few questions come in, mostly via WhatsApp… seeing as the website comments thing doesn’t seem to work for everyone! So if you want to have a look at answers to the first Q&A post, then look here. After a night of rain and thunderstorms we woke up to a…

The day started on the Vianden Castle campsite… in case you’re not keeping up. In the end it was quite a decent site… see below! The plan was then to drive to Enternach, about 30km away (still on the Luxembourg / German border), have a wander around and to do the Gorges du Loup followed…

We have two nights in the Vianden Castle Campsite. We’re finding that unless it’s a really limited amount of stuff we want to do in an area then it’s best to stay two nights in a place. That way we have time to do whatever the area has to offer and we can chill without…

Today started with a fantastic breakfast spread laid on by our hosts Tom and Helen. Opted for the non-alcoholic option 😉 Of course we had long chats yesterday, where we learnt the difference between Billige Geschist (cheap shit) vs Gunstig (value). The Germans, of course, appreciate the latter and not the former. Of course Sue…

So, after a noisy night next to the River Semoy (I was kept awake by the endless campers heading down the gravel track to the loos) we awoke to the dulcet tones of the donkey we had previously thought to be quaint. It was probably 100m from our van, but sounded like we were stood…

So the day was a perfect travel day. Grey and just sort of thinking about drizzling as we put our stuff away. But before we left the Ypres area we had to do one more cemetery and memorial – Essex Farm, to the north of Ypres. Essex Farm is a smaller site, but is famous…

Today was another day of visiting the Belgian War Memorials around Ypres. In numbers, very stark numbers, 200,000 Commonwealth men (it’s almost exclusively men) lost their lives in the 1914-1918 war in Belgium. A further 500,000 were lost in France and of all those 700,000… 300,000 have never been found, let alone a name put…

It’s been a poignant day today. We’ve spent the day cycling around the memorial graveyards to the east of Ypres. The campsite we’re staying at is a two minute cycle ride from the Hooge Crater Museum and Memorial. The Hooge Crater was created early WWI when the allies dug a 60m tunnel under the German…

Today has been a travel day. We set off from Northamptonshire at about 10, Chunnel at 15:30 and set up camp by 18:30. A pretty uneventful day, drizzling until we got past the bottom of the M11 but beautiful now here in Belgium as we sit with a beverage. Thurrock services were the hole that…