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Day 50 – Germany /Bruges, Belgium
Our last day on the grand tour before we return to Blighty. All packed up and on our way to Bruges by 8.30am. Unfortunately the Garmin went a bit loopy and didn’t recognise a new section of motorway so we drove quite a way for a while before noticing we were travelling in the wrong…
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Day 49 – Germany/Mosel Valley
Oh the humiliation! Decided to hire some bikes and go cycling today. This area is very well set up for cycling – lots of riverside routes that are flat. We went to the cycle hire place which, bizarrely, was also the car park public toilet! The couple that run it are a Thai lady and…
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Day 48 – Germany. Still in the Mosel Valley
A very wet day was forecast so we decided to do the boat trip from Bernkastel Kues to Traben-Trarbach. The scenery was mainly vineyards clinging to the sides of steep hills interspersed with some reasonably pretty towns. (Bernkastel is by far the prettiest though.) The pace of the boat was very slow but it passed…
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Day 47 -Germany/bernkastel kue
Day 47 -Germany/bernkastel kueHot day today, around 30 degrees. Very easy, but somehow seemed long, drive to the Mosel Valley. Found the apartment in Bernkastel Kue without too much trouble but the garage we had paid to park in was very difficult to get into. Ended up parking in the public car park which…
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Day 46 – Germany. Nuremberg
After a leisurely start, we set off on foot to see the Dokuzentrum – otherwise known as the Nuremberg rally site. Although I know all about the holocaust and have a sketchy idea of the Nazi ideology, this exhibition showing how Hitler got so many people to support him and his plans for world domination…
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Day 45 – Austria/Germany
Our journey to Nuremberg was a slow one. We had stupidly given no thought to the fact it was Saturday and school holidays. It seemed as though everyone was on the road either trying to get somewhere or come home. Oh well, at least it got us used to British traffic again. The most annoying…
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Day 44 -Austria
Today we were up at 6.15am ready to do the seven summits walk. This walk is described on the Saalbach website as only suitable for “experienced mountaineers”. Yikes! Terrified already. For reasons only known to Saalbachers, the cable car opens at 7.30am for ten minutes, then closes again until 8.30am. We had to catch the…
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Day 43 – Slovakia and Austria
Our desire for spicy food wasn’t met last night. After reading the terrible reviews for the curry house we were going to, we decided to give it a miss. The Thai restaurant that was our alternative was full so we ended up back in Bratislava’s old town. Underwhelming in the day, it had turned into…
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Day 42 – Slovakia. Bratislava
Woke up to pouring rain and low cloud so it was a good day to move on. Easy journey to Bratislava. Our “apartment” (it’s just a room really) is very centrally located and we found it without any trouble. Driving into the parking area was another matter, with me pulling and pushing the metal door…
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Day 41 – Slovakia
In the night, someone removed my legs and replaced them with lead ones. This did not help my progress one bit today as, for the early part of today’s hike, it felt as though a very heavy child was sat on my back. I also discovered that I had not been told the complete truth…
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
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- 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
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- 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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