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The Hills are Alive
Day 11 – Imperia Annoyingly, I woke up at 2am and didn’t get back to sleep until gone 4. No rhyme or reason for it. The good thing is I’m enjoying my audiobook – Michelle Obama “Becoming”. Listening to it passed the time well. Today was an exploration of the promenade/cycle path that stretches from…
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The Hills are Alive
Day 10 – Rovereto/Imperia We woke up this morning to rain. It had at last arrived. We had a relaxing hour or so reading the news before getting up and getting on our way. We knew this was going to be a 5 hour travel day if not more , not our favourite and could…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
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- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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