Leaving Britain for a while. We wake in Brighton, on the street side. A walk in the park for Polly, a wave goodbye to James, and onwards. At the Channel Tunnel terminal, a Swiss E-type convention. More Jaguars than I’ve ever seen in the same place, and each worth a fortune. More interesting to me, […]
Germany
Wachenheim, and creating our own romantic road.
Wachenheim, Wachenheim, so good we went there twice. On the way down through Germany my first solo stop (i.e. not visiting friends) was at the wonderful Riesling producing town of Wachenheim. That was thanks to a recommendation from Marlon and Silke up in Aachen. I’ve talked about it so much since that we decided we […]
The Romantic Road – Romantische Straße, Germany.
The Romantic Road For the first 100 kms or so of the Romantic Road Minty and I weren’t feeling the love. We’d left a beautiful lakeside hotel, The Hotel Seeblick outside of Bad Endorf. After a morning swim and a great Germanic breakfast of cheese, meats, strong bread and coffee we had high hopes of […]