After a fairly rough ferry crossing, we made it home safely on the afternoon of Thursday 21st December, 58 days after leaving. We're...

With just a week to go before Christmas, it's time to start heading towards the ferry at Cherbourg. We start with an easy 3-hour run from...

The next stop is a familiar one, with Essen being the town in which I spent my third year of college way back when. An industrial and not...

It's over four hours from Krakow to Zgorzelec, a town just shy of the border with Germany. Our accommodation for the night is a hotel at...

It's our last morning in Krakow and we head just outside the city to the famous salt mines at Wieliczka. The massive deposits of rock...

On Monday morning we drove about an hour out of Krakow to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was the largest of the German Nazi...

One of the first things we notice upon crossing the border into Poland is that the roads have improved, significantly. Our journey along...

After our nice slow amble across Germany we are now sprinting across Czechia in three days, in order to get to Krakow by the weekend. We...

Unsurprisingly the road up to Rothenburg on der Tauber is a little on the cold side, but it has been well cleared so the drive is not too...

The Romantic Road is the name given to the 500km stretch of road between the Bavarian towns of Fussen and Wurzburg, on the basis that it...

We arrived in Stuttgart on Monday 27th for a 2-night stay, heading into the city from our hotel on the outskirts early on Tuesday...

Just over the border into Germany lies the city of Freiburg, which also marks our entry into the Black Forest region. We arrive on Black...

It's now 23rd November and Christmas Market Season is officially under way! Germany claims the origins of the Christmas market, but with...

Less than 20km from our base in Mittelwihr is the Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg, perched on a rocky spur overlooking the nearby...

After our brief trip to Switzerland, we arrived in Alsace on Saturday afternoon. The landscape has changed completely from forests and...

Our route from Cremieu takes us north east towards Alsace, but we break up the journey with an overnight stop in Besançon, a city that...

Our 'base' for the past week has been the small town of Cremieu, 30-40 mins east of Lyon. It's an unusual spot, in that it serves as a...

After a day off in Cremieu on Tuesday, on Wednesday we headed into the mountains to the town of Annecy, known as the "Venice of the...

About 30 mins north of our accommodation in Cremieu lies the small medieval village of Perouges, which is deservedly listed as one of the...

The central part of France is known for its series of cave systems, some of which contain underground rivers and lakes. Many of them are...