D-Day 80th Anniversary celebrations, more England and Wales and more anniversaries
Read moreAfter having our photos taken for the Hotel Rossli family album, we left our jovial host in Interlaken to head back to Germany today and our stop for tonight. Little did we expect that we would be crossing 6 borders during the day – though we may have lost count ! […]
WOW, what a day today ! We went to “The Top of Europe” today – the Jungfraujoch – way up at the top of the Alps at 11,333 feet above sea level. First we drove to a town about 15km away called Lauterbrunnen to catch the train up to the […]
So we left Germany today and headed to Switzerland. Our first leg took us toward Basel and the border. Getting to the border was a bit of an anti-climax. We knew we had to buy a “vignette” – a toll tag sticker for the car – and expected some sort of […]
When we went to breakfast this morning we thought we were in the USA. Heidelberg has a very big US influence as it is a big military area – we drove past the “General Patton Base” at one stage. So almost all the conversation at breakfast was american accents ! […]
Today we made our way to Heidelberg via Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Schwabische Hall, part of the Romantic and Castle Roads. It was very cold – only about 5 degrees but colder with the wind chill – but luckily no rain. It took us about an hour to get […]
