Category: The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Middle-aged flash packers 