War Memorials and Waiting
23/04/2023 Our fuel tank was running dry and we needed to fill it up with the cheap stuff as soon as we crossed the border between Germany and Luxembourg. Then… Read more »
Category: Heritage
A Brief Stop in Saarland
22/04/2023 Our journey back to the UK was feeling like a second holiday. Having tourist attractions to look forward to visiting definitely improves the journey home. Next stop was to… Read more »
Castles and Vineyards in the Alsace
20/04/2023 Leaving Gruyeres we continued on Swiss roads, making sure we registered on the Via app again so that we were road legal. The route took us through the Jura… Read more »
The Big Cheese?
18/04/2023 Getting to Gruyères We had earmarked Gruyères as an appropriate stopover in Switzerland. We were only passing through so it had to be a short detour from the route… Read more »
Closing Weekend in Valtournenche
15th April Leaving Antey-Saint-Andre We packed up Bertie and used the services in Antey-Saint-Andre before moving further up the valley. The services only had the one tap with a short… Read more »
Chamois – the Village you cannot reach by Car
13/04/23 A gassy refill It was gas that forced us away from Cervinia. The LPG that we use to fuel our fridge, hot water and heating was on the verge… Read more »
Beyond the sosta and the supermarket
04/04/23 This is a story of two separate days in the same location, separated by a week in Cervinia (about which I will post, it just made sense to bundle… Read more »
Arriving in Aosta
03/04/23 Another Aosta valley new experience beckoned. We have never actually visited Aosta itself, which seems like a major omission in our frequent visits to the eponymous valley. Aosta Town… Read more »
Traversing the Aosta Valley – Pre-Saint-Didier
01/04/23 We were on a quest to find new things to do in the Aosta Valley. La Thuile was a good start but it was time to move on. The… Read more »
Wild Winds in La Thuile
30/03/2023 It was time to move on from Samoens and from France, heading East to Italy where we expect to spend the remainder of our skiing time. First, a shopping… Read more »
Hanging Around At Home
12/05/19 – 10/06/19 We are currently nestled into a spot on a campsite in Exmouth awaiting parts to repair Bertie. Bertie will not be moved while we wait and our… Read more »
The Good and the Bad of Shoulder Season
26/05/19 – 29/05/19 Travelling in the mountains during ‘shoulder season’ can sometimes be highly frustrating. As the snow recedes, it leaves behind the debris of autumn storms and winter snowfall…. Read more »
Ancient Graffito in the Val Camonica
23/04/19 Paul doesn’t display the highest levels of enthusiasm when visiting historical sites unless they have some element of engineering or architectural interest. So when I announced that I wanted… Read more »
Buona Pasqua from Bormio
19/04/19 – 22/04/19 From Livigno we drove back down to Bormio, looking for somewhere that might have some Easter activity that wasn’t centred around skiing and late night loud and… Read more »
A Cycle Round Castellane
22/02/18 – 23/02/18 We were still in need of water and the situation was getting desperate as we opened our emergency stash. No one had been to fix the machine… Read more »
Limestone Cliffs near Moustiers Sainte Marie
20/02/19 – 21/02/19 With the sun still shining brightly we moved on from our spot near the lake. We wanted to walk in the area at the mouth of the… Read more »
Visiting the Pilgrimage Town of Rocamadour
11/12/18 – 12/12/18 Rocamadour is one of those ‘must see’ tourist destinations in France. Most lists of ‘best places to go’, ‘most dramatic destination’ etc include this vertical town that… Read more »
A Rocky Ridge in the Desierto de las Palmas
02/12/18 Inland from Benicassim and Castellon is a small area of hills that had been calling to us each time we visited. A quick google search showed that the natural… Read more »
Retracing Our Steps
30/12/18 – 01/12/18 It was hard to believe it was December already, the weather had turned positively balmy and only the short days hinted at the season. Because it was… Read more »
Into the City of Valencia
28/11/18 – 29/11/18 Valencia. For a few days we’d been considering it as our terminus for this trip. The furthest point south before we start heading back to the UK. We… Read more »