In 1241 Hamburg and the smaller town of Lübeck, east of the city and heading […]
Year: 2016
Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany’s magnificent city of the North. Its very name conjures images of industrial-scale docklands, […]
Into Lower Saxony and Bremen
We spent a bleak weather day in Hasselt Marina for a final night in Holland. […]
Two days in Amsterdam
We battled around the busy ring road and arrived at Amsterdam’s City Camp promptly at […]
Windmills and water at Kinderdjik
After spending the morning preparing words and pictures for the blog and observing that, in Alblasserdam, […]
Rotterdam (or anywhere)*
We got on the road early and had an uneventful drive to the border, save […]
A day in Belgium at Brasschaat
We were on a timetable and needed to reach Holland, first crossing Belgium. It’s a […]
Leaving home for antiquity in Lens
The evening crossing from Newhaven was choppy in strong winds around the British coast. Once […]
From Prussia with love!
So… here we are, on the last day of July, we’ve finally plotted a route […]