Category: My blog
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Day 2 – Godendorf to Fussen (Luxembourg and Germany)
A well earned beer after a hard day’s driving View of Lake Forggensee. Driving day so not much to report. Headed off about 9.30am after a stop to refuel and buy some lunch for later. The diesel was really cheap (1Euro a litre) and, more importantly, so was the wine! Good old Luxembourg. A…
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Day One – Dover/Dunkirk/Echternach(France, Belgium, Germany,Luxembourg -England doesn’t count)
It was an early start today as I couldn’t sleep and was out of bed by 5am. Most of our stuff (emergency tent, rucksacks, chairs, kettle, kitchen sink etc,etc) was packed last night so there really wasn’t much to do but I still managed to faff around until 6.15, much to Steve’s irritation. There’s a…
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The Grand Tour – driving from England to Turkey and back again
Introducing The Grand Tour The idea for the Grand Tour came about while I was thinking about travels for my bucket list. I’ve always loved the idea of a really long road trip, heading for a particular destination but stopping at beautiful towns, scenic spots etc on the way. While “The Long Way Down” with…
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Costa Rica cogitations
Costa Rica cogitations It’s been over 2 weeks since we left Costa Rica and looking back over our trip, it’s a wonderful country that I will definitely return to. I would like to go back to Drakes Bay and see Emillio’s vision for his trekking area, explore the Pacific Coast and inland around Dominical, and…
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Killing time in Poas
Poas seemed to have a theme of waiting. Waiting for the day to pass, waiting for the rain to stop, waiting for the gates to the national park to open. Unfortunately there was to be no viewing of the volcano crater as the cloud cover was just too thick. The clouds hid a bubbling, green…
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Arenal
The last two days have passed very quickly. I always find that when a trip is nearing its end. It’s a conflict between rushing around and making the most of the last moments, and also wanting to chill out before getting back to everyday life. Actually we’ve managed to do both. We did a big…
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Volcano number two
Dominique excelled herself this morning as the breakfast she served was phenomenal. Homemade chocolate muffins with choc chips in them? I never want to leave. Unfortunately Daniel had other plans so reluctantly we packed up our stuff, took one last photo of the beautiful view and headed off on our penultimate journey to Volcan Arenal.…
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Waterfalls, river trail and monkey poo
After a wet and windy night, we woke to blue sky and the beginnings of a beautiful day. We were served a delicious breakfast of fruit, eggs, warm bread and mango marmalade – all from Daniel and Dominque’s fair hand. Daniel and Dominique come from Belgium and run a very ordered and gorgeous B and…
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On the volcano trail
On the volcano trail Yesterday wasn’t the best of days. Steve had a stomach bug which left him feeling listless, we had a banking incident (too dull to go into but involved a cash dispenser and much wasting of time) , a fruitless drive to a waterfall and I didn’t see a sloth. On the…
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Not mad about Monteverde
A very early alarm call saw us arriving at the Monteverde cloud forest at 7am. For the first time in Costa Rica I wore a fleece and a raincoat and it didn’t feel good. We decided to have a guide as I’m now beginning to believe there are no sloths in Costa Rica and they…
Middle-aged flash packers 