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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…
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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…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- 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
- 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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