Keeping alongside the Neckar river, the road south back towards the motorway to Nuremberg passed […]
Month: August 2015
A long weekend along the River Neckar
It was another uncomfortably hot and still night, broken at 2am by a bizarre gusting […]
The start of a German heatwave
Overnight temperatures in Bertha were not getting below 30 degrees or 86 Fahrenheit as measured by […]
Two days on the Deutsche Weinstraße
It was an easy morning’s drive in bright sunshine across the border and onto, most […]
To the German border
Our phones informed us that the temperature would drop 10 degrees today to the high […]
Two days in Metz
After walking around the village and discovering an old farmworkers ‘rogation cross’ by the side […]
A hot and dusty drive east
A blaring horn cheekily announced the arrival of the local ‘boulanger’ van awaking us from […]
Leaving Newhaven
The day sailing from Newhaven to Dieppe proved to be as busy as our heads. After […]