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 […]
The Cornish Wanderer
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 […]
PollyDog v ArchieVan
If Polly knew how many people asked about her wellbeing while on tour she’d be flattered. I’m not telling her though as I don’t want her to know that she’s the star attraction. She’s only a dog after all. Even as I was approaching Brighton a call came through asking to see Polly – it […]
ArchieVan Mountain Van.
A drive deeper into the Pfalz to Kaisersluten didn’t reveal the stunning town I’d hoped for – but it did take me through beautiful mountain roads with fairy tale castles clinging to the very edge of the hills they were built on. We tackle what we then thought were our first hills, but oh my […]