We arrived at Budapest with mixed feelings. Our first visit four years ago was not […]
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Gyor
Moving on to Budapest we stopped for a day and night in Gyor. Lying at […]
A charming Hungarian spa town
Our first stop in Hungary was Moson Magyarovor. This delightful spa town has Roman origins […]
Three countries in one day (on bikes)
The drive out of Vienna was easy going along flat plains of towering wind turbines. […]
Vienna
Before we visited the city we collectively knew four things about it: Mozart lived there […]
Villages in the Wachau Valley
The Wachau Valley is considered the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in lower Austria. […]
Mauthausen Memorial
Driving out of Linz through the vast industrial landscape of steel works, power plants and […]
Austrian river city of Linz
We didn’t know it but Monday was to be a big day. I was up […]
Covid-19: remembering our first trip
Housebound and country bound in the Covid crisis, we look back at our first trip away in 2011.
Provence
Provence, that glorious sunlit land of meadows, vineyards, goats, gorges, tumbling rivers, potager gardens, hilltop villages, abbeys, lavender fields, cypress trees and wooden-shuttered farmhouses!