2017 A break from Blighty Archives

Freinsheim & the Deutsche Weinstraße

Spend any amount of time in Germany and you’ll learn that the locals don’t do […]

Some places you visit because you are drawn to them throughout your life, others wantonly […]

Bavaria’s Bamberg is a remarkable example of a central European town with a still intact […]

Dresden is Germany’s phoenix, rising from the ashes and rubble of World War II in […]

Along the Elbe and first documented in 1233, Pirna was a thriving Middle Ages town […]

Following in the footsteps of that most famous of German romantics, Goethe, we went north […]

From Medieval times, Bohemia was synonymous with wildly beautiful landscapes, cut through by the sandstone […]

Standing on a grassy bank opposite an innocent looking and soggy line of forested trees […]

Quietly, on a rainy Friday morning we made a ‘back door’ border crossing by climbing […]

Trip days can sometimes frustrate best laid plans. We had only expected to do 80 […]