Category: My blog
-
The Hills are Alive
Day 9 -Bad Reichenhall/Rovereto Cloudy but none of the biblical rain that was forecasted. Weather forecasting seems to have become less and less accurate yet much money has been spent on sophisticated systems and models that should ensure the opposite. I did an AI search on this and got a very chippy answer, obviously AI…
-
The Hills are Alive
Day 8 Eagle’s Nest/Bad Reichenhall Early start this morning as we had to leave the apartment by 8.30am to get to Berchtesgaden in order to catch our allotted 9.20am bus to Kehlsteinhsus aka Eagles Nest. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Eagle’s Nest was a very important place during the Nazi rule. It was used…
-
The Hills are Alive
Day 7 – Bad Reichenhall – Dotzenkopf A decent night’s sleep at last – hallelujah! The church bells in the town rang in celebration, very kind of them. Although it is Sunday. We pottered about this morning doing useful things like getting some washing done, planning where we go next and the like. The highlight…
-
The Hills are Alive
Day 6 – Bad Reichenhall The ghost in the machine has given up on us. No strange switching on of the a/c in the early hours. Phew. Packed and breakfasted, we headed off for a final visit to Lidl. This time we had hoped to buy something for dinner for when we arrived in Bad Reichenhall,…
-
The Hills are Alive
Day 5 – Ribeauville to Riquewihr loop The air conditioning turned itself on again, this time at 6am. No idea what’s going on here. Would take the batteries out but what if it goes completely rogue and won’t switch off at all?? I’d made a bit of a fuss about wanting to see the picturesque…
-
The Hills are Alive
Day 4 Strasbourg I don’t know about the hills being alive but the air conditioning certainly is. We have a ghost in the machine. I could find no earthly reason as to why the a/c came on at midnight but I switched it off and it didn’t come on again. It’s Strasbourg day today. The…
-
The Hills are Alive
Day 3 – four castles hike/Molsheim old town Our hotel is very proud of being green. It’s not painted green of course but it has green credentials. The usual “keep using your towels”, “use the hand wash for everything” etc etc. so why do they put you in a hot room with a duvet the…
-
The Hills Are Alive
Day 2 – Laon/Molsheim We survived the night, I actually slept reasonably well. Thank goodness for the sleep kit. I notice Booking.com rates the Premiere Classe hotel as “pleasant”. I think they omitted the un. Breakfast was a porridge pot which tasted of cardboard, it went straight in the bin. Undaunted, we decided to embark…
-
The Hills are Alive
Road trip to Austria September 2025 Day 1 – Laon, France Lying on a beach in the day , sipping cocktails at a beach bar at night holds quite a bit of appeal to me at the moment. Sadly it doesn’t for Steve, hence we are catching a ferry to Calais and motoring through France…
-
Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
Velingrad/Lake Batak/Dorkivo – days 9 and 10 we decided to take time out from our spa hotel to visit Lake Batak as we had driven past it last time we came to Bulgaria and it looked lovely – lots of sitting areas and a busy town. We thought we might be able to find a…
Middle-aged flash packers 