Category: The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
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Day 7 – Martin Brod waterfalls/hiking trail to strbacki buk waterfall
Slept like a log last night. It was a real struggle to get up this morning. It’s either the clean Bosnian air or lack of caffeine. Had a sneaky breakfast in our room. Asmir would have liked to serve us breakfast but at 5 euros each I think not. We will have dinner again though.…
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Photos from day 6
Didn’t manage to post these yesterday so here are some pics from our first day in Bosnia: The river Una at Martin Brod
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Day 6 – Slovenia/Croatia/Bosnia
After much bumbling about this morning we eventually set off around 9.30am. I was sorry to be leaving Slovenia. It has grown on me. We went for a little wander after dinner last night around the streets near us and it was so tranquil and quiet. People have space in this part of the world…
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Day 4 – Germany/Austria/Slovenia
German sign. Nice they’re so concerned about our bowels Lake Bled Beer in the sunshine Our apartment It’s not just us in the UK who are fed up with EU bureaucracy. Chatting last night to our German B and B owner, he told us how he was expected to make changes to…
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Day 3 – King Ludwig’s crazy castles, Bavaria
“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your golden hair”…….. Neuschwanstein castle Due to our lack of reserved tickets we were up at 6.30am to secure a place in the ticket queue for Neuschwanstein castle. Actually this worked perfectly – we arrived in Schwangu at 7.30 and were second in the line. The first…
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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…
Middle-aged flash packers 