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Cycling in Germany #5 – Bad Schandau to Pirna along the Elbe
We wake up in our lime green and yellow pension in Bad Schandau (bad means bath and hence spa) and the first thing we do is check the weather and the temperature. Yesterday we were in transit between...
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Cycling in Germany #7 – Dresden: Accommodation & Car Trouble and Baroque...
The idea is to go to the Tourist Office in Dresden to find a hotel. I’ve already done some research and there doesn’t seem to be much on offer in the old town apart from the Hilton and a couple of Ibis...
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Cycling in Germany #9 – Country Roads around Niederlommatzsch on the Elbe
We reach Elbklause, our Radhaus (bike hotel), in Niederlommatzsch around 12.30. Our room is new, large and airy with a wonderful view of the Elb. The wifi works immediately and doesn’t require endless...
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Cycling in Germany #12 – Luther Country : Wittenberg
We arrive at our Black Bear Hotel (Schwarzer Baer) about 2 pm in stifling heat and appreciate the coolness of the rooms. We don’t have a terrace but we have a little closed-in verandah afffair with a...
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Cyclng in Germany #15 – Turgermünde, the prettiest village on the Elbe
After Magdeburg and the Green Citadel, we continue on to our next location in the little village of Dahlenstedt near Stendal, where we are to spend 3 nights, including a rest day. We first heard of...
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Cycling in Germany #16 – Celle and Bremen
Bad weather has struck so we’ve studied the weather report and after a day of R&R at Kunsthof Pension in Dahrenstedt we’re off to Bremen via Celle which has over 400 timber-framed houses. Church...
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Cycling in Germany #17 – Windmills and Dykes
Windmills and dykes, I can hear you saying. Aren’t they Dutch? Well, we are in the north-east of Germany, near the North Sea, in East Friesland in Lower Saxony which is only separated from the...
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Cycling in Germany #19 – Bernkastel on the Moselle – a hidden treasure
We arrive in Bernkastel at about 1.30 pm after a 4-hour drive from Hann Münden with only a couple of rough patches on the motorway. I wouldn’t have liked to be going in the other direction around...
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Cycling in Germany – Tips & Tricks
We have now been on three cycling trips to Germany, first on the Rhine near Lake Constance, second along the Danube from it’s source to Budapest and third on the Moselle, Rhine, Elbe and Eiser Rivers...
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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Apostrophes in French – Chenonceau & the War Effort...
An all-Australian cast for this week’s Blogger Round-Up. Wendy Hollands from Le Franco Phoney talks about a subject dear to my heart – the French language - and the apostrophe in particular. Susan from...
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Weekly Blogger Round-Up: Safe Solo Travel Tips for Women – Supplements for...
We have an all-Australian line-up for this week’s Blogger Round-Up, starting with some excellent tips from Jo Karnaghan from Frugal First Class Travel on safe travel for solo women. Carolyn from...
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A Significant Birthday or Taking a Pensioner Out to Dinner
Entrance to Manoir de Contres (photo courtesy of http://www.manoirdecontres.com) I’m always on the look-out for new restaurants to try so when my friend and neighbour Françoise mentions the Manoir de...
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Granada – Final Impressions and Suggestions – and maybe Cordoba
I somehow feel that Granada escaped me. I think there are two reasons: the fact that I was still recovering from a bad bout of flu and the unexpectedly cold weather. It seems to me that Spain is an...
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Blogger Round-Up: Choosing accommodation with airbnb – Luggage transfer when...
In recent times, I have sadly neglected my once-weekly blogger round-up due to my very busy life since moving to Blois last October but three posts caught my eye recently that I would like to share....
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Cycling along the Brenta Riviera from Stra to Fusina with a visit to Villa...
As promised, Paola, our lovely hostess at La Casa di Paola e Marco, the B&B where we are staying in Noventa Padovana near Padua, gives us scrambled eggs, ham and cheese for breakfast so we are...
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Cycling in the Veneto – Walled Cities and the Euganei Hills
After a rest day at our flat in Arqua Petrarca, the town where the famous Italian poet, Petrach, chose to spend his last five years (he died in 1374), we are back on our bikes. The view of hte Euganei...
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Zagreb – a City of Contrasts
We’ve been to Croatia before – in 2011 – but didn’t get as far as Zagreb so it’s been on my list for a while. We mainly visited the coast: Split, Dubrovnik (with an excursion into Mostar in Bosnia...
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Cycling around Belgrade
We leave Zagreb with overcast skies and slight rain. We have lunch in a rest stop on the motorway in the car because it’s not warm enough to sit outside – not to mention there are no picnic tables....
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The Iron Gates on the Danube in Serbia – Why we didn’t cycle!
We finally leave Zemun near Belgrade around 11 am. The weather is better than we expected but still only 15°C and somewhat overcast. We’re heading for Donji Milanovac in the middle of the Iron Gate...
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Timisoara in Romania – A great R&R stop
We leave Serbia without regret and pass the border into Romania on the other side of Derdap dam. It’s raining and we thank our lucky stars for yesterday’s perfect weather for visiting the Iron Gate...
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