Germany

This is a description of a holiday that was planned, mostly booked and never taken! It was planned as a grand pan-European odyssey back in those heady days of 2019 & 2020 when the world had never heard of Covid or lockdowns. Ah! Such innocence.

DRAFT Phew! What a trip, What a holiday! We saw amazing things, we had great experiences, and we aren't ever doing anything like it ever again! (See the second part of this entry linked here for all the reasons) This was the final part of a

Die letzte große Reise **This post should be read in conjunction with the summary of the Tatras Train Trip which gives the sordid details - it's at this link ** But why is the title in German? I suppose it's because I was suprised how well my

This is a retrospective report (by 7 years) of a very successful & happy trip we took in April & May 2017. This involved a couple of extremely long travelling days that I would not contemplate doing now. It was also before my wife really

I've realised that our main trip of 2024 to Germany by way of the Netherlands is split over a number of posts and there's no straightforward description of the whole journey. It was a great trip with no major disasters - a couple of lessons learned,

That was an entertaining half hour! We don't follow football but we're aware of the Euro tournament that's on at the moment. We decided to eat this evening in a local bar in Hook of Holland (The Harwich) and the footie was on the big screen. Georgia

We got up at a sensible time today and at breakfast I found the croissants! No where near the other bread of course. There was no plan for today, but knowing it was likely to be warmer we set off walking beyond the fountain at the 'end' of the

Yesterday evening we eat in a burger place, it was just fine - not too much and not too expensive. The desserts were a bit odd though - almost all frozen yoghurt based. We ordered an ice cream cookie each, but something got lost in translation as we

We had a decent lie in this morning knowing that there was nothing specific to get up for and breakfast was available until 11. It was a decent breakfast but strangely lacking in croissants. Mind you - I had severe indigestion in the night, so I

We knew that we didn't have to rush out this morning so we took our time and had a bit of a lie in, and a slow breakfast. I don't know what that 'cold' I had yesterday afternoon was, but it has pretty much gone. I got weary this afternoon. I'm