Mac Donald's is wonderful... Well, not so much for the food (of course) but more for its liberal use of free Internet. When it works, it works very well and without the hassle of accounts or the need to enter in any personal details. Great!
Anyway, enough of a preamble. For everyone's information we are currently awaiting a flight back to good 'ol Blighty for Holiday Part Two! Two weddings. Two sets of parents. 1 week. And various trains, lifts and heavy bag carrying (why on earth did I bring so much with me).
Hope to see you somewhere along the way.
Thursday 9 August 2012
Monday 6 August 2012
Home.
We are home. In Prague safe and sound (but very tired).
We decided to spend the day in the spa then dash all the way to Prague to take the stress out of the handover of the Snuggle Truck. So here we are, back in the flat and ready for a nights sleep in our own bed.
After 5 weeks on the road it feels a little bit weird, but good.
Anyway, sleep beckons.
We decided to spend the day in the spa then dash all the way to Prague to take the stress out of the handover of the Snuggle Truck. So here we are, back in the flat and ready for a nights sleep in our own bed.
After 5 weeks on the road it feels a little bit weird, but good.
Anyway, sleep beckons.
Saturday 4 August 2012
Beer hall Bonanza!
Good evening!
We made it to Munich and here is Sarah holding our (1l) beers in the Hofbräuhaus. Cheers!
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We made it to Munich and here is Sarah holding our (1l) beers in the Hofbräuhaus. Cheers!
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Thank you Jan and Janine
A quick but big (enormous, galactic even) thank you to our Germanic friends Jan and Janine. Lovely people who have been kind enough to host us in Konstanz, give us a bed to sleep in and introduce me to the joys of Leisure Diving (and lots more packed into under 24 hours).
Thank you!
- Anthony
Thank you!
- Anthony
Friday 3 August 2012
Constant Konstanz
Hello everyone. We have arrived at Konstanz, very south Germany.
Just a quick update as I am currently being rude and typing this blog whilst tea and cake is being consumed.
The last two nights were spent in Freiburg, a lovely student city on the edge of the Black Forrest. We gave in and rented an apartment instead of camping which made a change and allowed us to relax in a way that we have not for some time. Maybe, just maybe we are ready for the creature conforts of life away from the road.
In the town we had a beer at the top of a hill over the city giving great views of the rooftops and churches and (I counted) 11 cranes towering skeletal precariously moving rubble over everyone´s heads.
Apart from this we didn´t do all that much, just focused on chilling out and slowing down ready for Erding!! Can´t wait.
Sorry about the shortness of this update, it reflects the difficulties (if that is the right word) that we have had in finding internet on our journey. We have a lot more to add and currently the plan is to do so retrospectivly once we get home (or from the uk) with more pictures and the benifits of reflection. So what I am trying to say is if you are still interested at this point then keep reading the blog even after we have returned to Prague as we will keep posting.
Just a quick update as I am currently being rude and typing this blog whilst tea and cake is being consumed.
The last two nights were spent in Freiburg, a lovely student city on the edge of the Black Forrest. We gave in and rented an apartment instead of camping which made a change and allowed us to relax in a way that we have not for some time. Maybe, just maybe we are ready for the creature conforts of life away from the road.
In the town we had a beer at the top of a hill over the city giving great views of the rooftops and churches and (I counted) 11 cranes towering skeletal precariously moving rubble over everyone´s heads.
Apart from this we didn´t do all that much, just focused on chilling out and slowing down ready for Erding!! Can´t wait.
Sorry about the shortness of this update, it reflects the difficulties (if that is the right word) that we have had in finding internet on our journey. We have a lot more to add and currently the plan is to do so retrospectivly once we get home (or from the uk) with more pictures and the benifits of reflection. So what I am trying to say is if you are still interested at this point then keep reading the blog even after we have returned to Prague as we will keep posting.
Tuesday 31 July 2012
From Belgium to the Black Forest
Happy Birthday to you, Father Constable!
Morning all! We have found a computer! In Todtnauberg, a mountain community in the Black Forest in southwest Germany. All is still well, we are in mourning today as it is officially only 1 week to go till we hand back the Snuggle Truck!!! but we are going to pack that last week full of action, let us assure you.
Since the Belgian beer drinking stopover we drove all the way down to Baden-Baden at the start of the Black Forest, where we found a great campsite with the help of the tourist office, called Campsite Adam! It had a swimming lake and the weather was boiling hot on our arrival so we swam, cooled down and had a generally nice evening. In the night it rained and stormed and when we woke up it was a lot greyer and cooler, so we decided it was a good time to hire bikes and have a cycle round the area. Luckily at that point it was still quite flat so the cycling wasnt too bad. We made it to the river Rhein and cycled along the banks for a stretch, on the German side of course! Conveniently we made a lunch stop at exactly the point of the next storm, and we were warm and dry and eating kebabs and noodles while the rain came down. Once it cleared up we cycled on and eventually completed our 5 hour circuit back at camp. That evening was a bit annoying as we had just done a massive load of washing and it wouldn´t dry in the dryers, and just as we were checking it a HUGE storm came and it chucked it down!!! So we had to sleep amongst pants and socks strung up around the inside of the van, lovely!
After these couple of days enjoying the lovely scenery just before the Black Forest, we headed to the Friedrichsbad in Baden-Baden. For those of us who know about our secret (not so secret any more!) spa passion, the Friedrichsbad was brilliant. It is a 130 year old traditional Roman-Irish spa where you follow a circuit of 17 stations around through steam rooms, hot showers, warm baths, hot baths, cool baths and a soap and brush massage, until you are thoroughly clean and relaxed. It was just what we needed! We spent about 3 hours there including a sleep in the resting room at the end, where they wrap you with towels and leave you all warm and sleepy, and then we grabbed lunch in Baden-Baden and drove on into the Black Forest proper.
We were lucky to find our current site, Camping Hochschwarzwald, at 1050 metres above sea level in the beautiful forested hills. Yesterday we went for a half day walk through the hills, woods and fields to a little hut where we had sausages and cheese, black forest gateau (had to be done!) and ice cream for lunch. In total the walk was only about 10km so today we are about to strike out from Todtnauberg up to the Feldberg, the area´s highest point, for a longer stretch of the legs.
After here we are going to a theme park!! Europapark of German text book fame. Then hopefully 2 nights in Freiburg, maybe a meeting with Jan and Janine our German friends in Konstanz, and then the final event of our tour - 2 days at our favourite spa EVER, Erding by Munich.
Morning all! We have found a computer! In Todtnauberg, a mountain community in the Black Forest in southwest Germany. All is still well, we are in mourning today as it is officially only 1 week to go till we hand back the Snuggle Truck!!! but we are going to pack that last week full of action, let us assure you.
Since the Belgian beer drinking stopover we drove all the way down to Baden-Baden at the start of the Black Forest, where we found a great campsite with the help of the tourist office, called Campsite Adam! It had a swimming lake and the weather was boiling hot on our arrival so we swam, cooled down and had a generally nice evening. In the night it rained and stormed and when we woke up it was a lot greyer and cooler, so we decided it was a good time to hire bikes and have a cycle round the area. Luckily at that point it was still quite flat so the cycling wasnt too bad. We made it to the river Rhein and cycled along the banks for a stretch, on the German side of course! Conveniently we made a lunch stop at exactly the point of the next storm, and we were warm and dry and eating kebabs and noodles while the rain came down. Once it cleared up we cycled on and eventually completed our 5 hour circuit back at camp. That evening was a bit annoying as we had just done a massive load of washing and it wouldn´t dry in the dryers, and just as we were checking it a HUGE storm came and it chucked it down!!! So we had to sleep amongst pants and socks strung up around the inside of the van, lovely!
After these couple of days enjoying the lovely scenery just before the Black Forest, we headed to the Friedrichsbad in Baden-Baden. For those of us who know about our secret (not so secret any more!) spa passion, the Friedrichsbad was brilliant. It is a 130 year old traditional Roman-Irish spa where you follow a circuit of 17 stations around through steam rooms, hot showers, warm baths, hot baths, cool baths and a soap and brush massage, until you are thoroughly clean and relaxed. It was just what we needed! We spent about 3 hours there including a sleep in the resting room at the end, where they wrap you with towels and leave you all warm and sleepy, and then we grabbed lunch in Baden-Baden and drove on into the Black Forest proper.
We were lucky to find our current site, Camping Hochschwarzwald, at 1050 metres above sea level in the beautiful forested hills. Yesterday we went for a half day walk through the hills, woods and fields to a little hut where we had sausages and cheese, black forest gateau (had to be done!) and ice cream for lunch. In total the walk was only about 10km so today we are about to strike out from Todtnauberg up to the Feldberg, the area´s highest point, for a longer stretch of the legs.
After here we are going to a theme park!! Europapark of German text book fame. Then hopefully 2 nights in Freiburg, maybe a meeting with Jan and Janine our German friends in Konstanz, and then the final event of our tour - 2 days at our favourite spa EVER, Erding by Munich.
Thursday 26 July 2012
Belgian beers, yum!
We are currently drinking beer. See picture.
It is a very nice Chimay spécial potaupré as a taster after visiting their beer museum. Next we are off to the Abbey where the beer is brewed.
Very Belgian.
It is a very nice Chimay spécial potaupré as a taster after visiting their beer museum. Next we are off to the Abbey where the beer is brewed.
Very Belgian.
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