Aqueducts and Snow
22/02/2026 We were originally planning to stay in Fenis a second night, but after our walk we were a bit hot and sweaty and decided we’d rather be on EHU… Read more »
Tag: river
Interlude in Totnes
16/01/2026 Well finally I have finished blogging Norway. That’s a relief to get out of the way although it is also 12 days after my self-imposed deadline so I am… Read more »
A First Visit to Calais
03/11/2025 Suddenly the end of our trip was upon us. It seemed like an age ago that we left Dover in the warm summer sunshine. Now we were in the… Read more »
A City that Doesn’t Exist?
01/11/2025 Returning to Germany was a good opportunity to buy wine. The prices across the border were suddenly massively cheaper and excitedly I purchased a couple of bottles for under… Read more »
Last Days of the Lofotens
16/10/2025 Our lovely clear day was over and we woke up to more wind and rain. We left our island in the harbour and moved onto another paid parking area… Read more »
Around Kvænangen fjord
13/09/2025 It felt very strange to be heading south now after such an intensive amount of effort to get north. From our glacier stopover we tracked back to the E6… Read more »
Rock Art and Mountain Biking in Alta
11/09/2025 And so we found ourselves back in Alta, just 10 days after passing through on our blast across Finland. This time we were due to stay over. We had… Read more »
A Riverside Stopover
24/08/2025 After leaving our glacier camping we were wanting to push on a little before stopping for the night. The road took us up through the bleak high moorland of… Read more »
A Wet Day in Trondheim
21/08/2025 Trondheim currently holds the trophy for the most expensive stopover in Norway. I’m not complaining (much), it was completely our choice to park as close to the centre as… Read more »
A drive across the Rondane
18/08/2025 We had a bit of backtracking to do now. Our via ferrata experience had taken us slightly off course. It felt odd to be heading back south, and a… Read more »
Walking the Tømmerrena
14/08/2025 Three days travelling and three hours on the ferry. We were completely done with travelling. We needed a bit of the great outdoors to revive us. Luckily several people… Read more »
A Few Days near Luxembourg City
20/04/2025 After leaving Besançon we had another city in our sights for our journey home. Luxembourg City was to be another foray into Luxembourg for something other than cheap fuel…. Read more »
Scratching the Surface of Besançon
16/04/2025 After our waterfall walk in the Jura mountains, we dropped down to the city of Besançon where we planned to spend a couple of days. The aire in Besançon… Read more »
Not the Waterfalls We Were Looking For
14/04/2025 The day started with a blanket of fog over the lake, it was a strangely blue fog, giving us some hope that it was only a thin layer of… Read more »
An Extended Stay in Le Monêtiers les Bains
15/02/2025 It seems like ages since we arrived in the aire at Le Monêtiers les Bains. We paid to stay for five nights and then we extended for a further… Read more »
Ancient Bones and Ruins
29/11/2024 Friday was a drab damp and windy day. It was also the day we realised we only had a week left to get back home for our family Christmas… Read more »
Historic Sites and Leaping Salmon
25/10/2024 This was to be one of those busy days. They happen sometimes. Unexpectedly we find ourselves able to stuff a lot of activity into a single day. This morning… Read more »
Randolph’s Leap
24/10/24 River Findhorn Somewhere I had read that the Findhorn River was one of the most underrated and beautiful rivers in Scotland. I don’t know how true that is. Certainly… Read more »
A Taste of Lossiemouth
19/10/24 Lossiemouth is one of those places you see mentioned often in facebook groups. A stopover enjoyed by many whether due to the tourist facilities, the beach or the opportunity… Read more »
A Welcome Change
/10/2023 After the hustle and bustle of Lauterbrunnen we moved onto Kandertal (in the German language the suffix ‘tal’ means valley). It’s just a stone’s throw from Lauterbrunnen but it’s… Read more »