3 & 4 June A late night last night prevented me from getting a blog written last night so here is the story of the last couple of days of this trip. Yesterday started with[…]

Monday 4 June Much of today was spent on the train travelling from Hanover to Amsterdam a journey of about four and a half hours, and because the train departed a 10.40am and then had[…]

Sunday 3 June This morning’s train ride was a little longer, taking two hours and getting us to Hanover, a bustling city with over a million inhabitants. After checking into our hotel we headed out[…]

Saturday 2 June Today was another of our series of days when we travel by train in the morning and become tourists in the afternoon and evening. Today we travelled for about an hour between[…]

Friday 1 June It was a day of two halves today, the first half in trains and the second exploring the town of Nuremberg. In Germany there seems to be two classes of railway trains,[…]

Thursday 31 May Our second day in Ulm started fine and soon became hot. In fact the weather has been hot for our whole trip, while I was sketching today a nice family stopped for[…]

Wednesday 30 May This was to be our last day cycling and started with what has become our standard breakfast. Meusli with fruit and yoghurt, coffee (several cups) and bread rolls with a choice of[…]

Monday 28 May Today started well with another  good breakfast in a slightly twee room in our beautiful modern hotel (Hotel Garni Jägerhof). The day should have been about 34km but, perhaps because the cycle[…]

We started out this morning feeling a bit daunted because today was to be our longest cycling distance at 54km, but while that was long enough the day has been great. Most of the ride[…]