It’s official. Lake Bled is on my list of favourite places. I challenge anyone to take a bad photo here, it’s that picturesque. Today, we get to experience the day we wanted yesterday. First a […]
It’s official. Lake Bled is on my list of favourite places. I challenge anyone to take a bad photo here, it’s that picturesque. Today, we get to experience the day we wanted yesterday. First a […]
Another day in the gorgeous Lake Bled, this one with a little twist – fed up with all the mountain driving, the motorhome has spat the dummy and leaked its coolant out. Along with a […]
We awake to the first day of autumn to clear blue skies. Yesterday’s rains are banished, so Bled here we come! But not before that all important stop at a local supermarket. I might have […]
This morning we turned the key in the ignition…and nothing happened. Seriously. In the middle of the mountains. That actually happened. The process of elimination begins: the battery is new, it’s fully charged, nothing’s been […]
Oh my goodness, have I mentioned how cold it gets overnight in the mountains? The temperature doesn’t drop, it plummets. Just as well the days are so gorgeously balmy – I really need encouragement to […]
A big day: Sanda and Chris’s big day out in the Dolomites. It ought to have been simple enough really: 3 cable cars to take us to three separate peaks with short walks in between, […]
We bid a slightly wistful farewell to Glurns this morning. It would be oh so easy to sleep in, pop out for another leisurely lunch, lap the village once more, watch the sunset light up […]
Another glorious morning waking in the Swiss Alps. It’s hard to beat mountain air – fabulously invigorating, just cool enough to make you feel wide awake and alive. Whilst the days are balmy mid 20s […]
Continuing our mountain theme, we traverse from the Austrian Alps to the Swiss Alps. The route back into Switzerland lulls me into a false sense of security with a downhill covered underpass, but shortly after […]
So long Lake Constance, we’re off to Austria, forging our way east towards Slovenia then Croatia. Well perhaps goodbye should not be said quite so fast – with its enormous length, it takes what’s left […]