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Monthly Archives: August 2015

A charming Hungarian spa town

August 29, 2015by Currently Away

Our first stop in Hungary was Moson Magyarovor. This delightful spa town has Roman origins and a history of grand development linked to its healing and sought after mineral waters. […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Hungary

Three countries in one day (on bikes)

August 27, 2015by Currently Away

The drive out of Vienna was easy going along flat plains of towering wind turbines. Being a weekday the road was busy with freight and the registration plates of lorries […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia

Vienna

August 25, 2015by Currently Away

Before we visited the city we collectively knew four things about it: Mozart lived there for a time, its coffee houses are still institutions, it was the seat of the […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Austria

Villages in the Wachau Valley

August 22, 2015by Currently Away

The Wachau Valley is considered the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in lower Austria. It has a particularly mild and localised climate that lends itself to growing grapes for […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Austria

Mauthausen Memorial

August 19, 2015by Currently Away

Driving out of Linz through the vast industrial landscape of steel works, power plants and chemical factories, past belching chimneys and overhead railways and negotiating a series of raised roadways […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Austria

Austrian river city of Linz

August 18, 2015by Currently Away

We didn’t know it but Monday was to be a big day. I was up and out ready to greet the bakery van arriving at precisely the predicted 7.45am. After […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Austria

Heading to the border: Passau

August 17, 2015by Currently Away

Staying on the Donau, beautiful baroque Passau was our last port of call in Germany. Our aire was alongside the river in a winter floodplain and just a short cycle […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Germany

Bad Abbach and Regensburg

August 15, 2015by Currently Away

We headed to the Danube, or Donau in German, to see Regensburg. Our stop was at Bad Abbach, a quiet rural town up in the hills and pretty unremarkable but […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Germany

A return to NUREMBERG (NÜRNBERG)

August 13, 2015by Currently Away

We were packed and ready to leave Rothenburg at 9am but were inevitably delayed by departing packs of fussing Italians at the aire’s only service point. Still, we did the […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Germany

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

August 11, 2015by Currently Away

Returning to Rothenburg ob der Tauber after six years we were excited to discover what state this medieval walled town would be in, following further substantial investment by private and […]

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2015 To the Balkans and back, Germany

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