Wachenheim, Wachenheim, so good we went there twice. On the way down through Germany my first solo stop (i.e. not visiting friends) was at the wonderful Riesling producing town of Wachenheim. That was thanks to a recommendation from Marlon and Silke up in Aachen. I’ve talked about it so much since that we decided we […]
Author: Kelvin Collins
The Romantic Road – Romantische Straße, Germany.
The Romantic Road For the first 100 kms or so of the Romantic Road Minty and I weren’t feeling the love. We’d left a beautiful lakeside hotel, The Hotel Seeblick outside of Bad Endorf. After a morning swim and a great Germanic breakfast of cheese, meats, strong bread and coffee we had high hopes of […]
A great lakeside site – Camping Murinsel, Austria
Leaving Slovenia was hard. Despite more rain than I’ve seen for the year to date, Slovenia is a stunningly beautiful country. It’s small, heavily forested, lightly populated, and green, oh so green. It feels ancient, and yet bang up to date. A bar might be full of old boys in from a hard day in […]
Brief visit to Slovenia.
Big bends, bendy sausages, mind bending schnapps. There’s a short distance, but a serious drive, to be done today. We pack up early and leave the site at 6.30am in heavy cold rain. It’s going to be hard, but at least we’re out before the mad Italians get on the roads. Today our destination is […]
Cortina D’Ampezzo
Italy. If the mention of Cortina conjures up thoughts of your salesman dad’s old Ford you’d be delighted to see several in town. The Cortinas to Cortina has been a rally for the dedicated and the unhinged that celebrated the 30th, 40th and even 50th year of the once iconic company car. Hopefully all the […]