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Brisbane, Australia Our journey to England started with catching the train – not just one train, but FIVE trains! And every time we changed trains, we had to hump our luggage upstairs/downstairs! Appingedam to Groningen, Groningen to Schipol, Schipol to Brussels Midi, Brussels Midi to London (St Pancras), London (Euston) to Hemel Hempstead. By the…
Overschild, Netherlands Ever since MJ started to learn German in High School, she has always heard about the German Christmas Markets. In later years, her mother who was not known for her love of commercialism visited the markets and enjoyed them. Maybe it was all the Glühwein that mellowed her! After our week in Turkey,…
Antalya, Turkey We know that we will be glad that MJ has persisted with writing these blogs, but sometimes they are difficult to write. Surprisingly, this is one of them! As we have previously mentioned, we were able to get a 7-night trip to Antalya in Turkey for the princely sum of €99 each. That…
Munich, Germany Originally, this blog was going to deal with France only, but our drive from Andorra into France was too exciting to not rate a mention, so here we go… On the morning we were leaving Andorra La Vella, when we got out of bed, it was to discover that it has continued to…
Andorra la Vella, Andorra We are on the ferry back to Spain, sitting in the car waiting to disembark, and we turn the GPS on and she says “Proceed 80m before exiting the ferry”. You can’t get anything past The *****! We were staying there for one night and had booked a room in a…
Segovia, Spain OMG! We thought that we had seen it all when we drove from Madrid to Segovia over the mountains. At the top of the pass, at 1751m above sea-level, we encountered a light dusting of snow. But on Saturday morning, when we woke up, it was to discover a snowfall of about 2…
Tetouan, Morocco We are on our way to Morocco and when we drove to the port in Algeciras and got into line to wait to board the ferry, we quickly realised that there was a strong affinity between Russian drivers and Moroccan drivers! We had arrived in plenty of time and, once we had collected…
La Línea de la Concepción, Spain Those of you who know MJ, you may be aware that her maiden name was of Germanic origin but she has as much Portuguese heritage as German. Her Portuguese Great-Great-Grandfather left Lisbon (good move there) and was living in Melbourne when he married an Englishwoman. And so this visit…
Pamplona, Spain I’m starting this blog with a bit of a rant about campgrounds! When we arrived in Europe, we joined a Camping group called “Eurocamping” or ACSI which is a Dutch company. When we joined, we received a membership card and 2 books that covered campgrounds in the majority of Western Europe (ex-Eastern Bloc…
Mont-Saint-Michel, France When we left Germany and began our “real” travels, we decided to drive down towards Luxembourg – that way, we could add another country name to the back window, and well, we hadn’t been there before. What can I say?? We were not impressed with Luxembourg! Though, admittedly, it wasn’t Luxembourg’s fault. It…
Nick & MJ On The Road 