Category Archives: Food stuff

Wintering in a walking wonderland

Posted on December 3, 2012 by AdrianC

The first month and a bit back in the UK seems to have passed rapidly, without much of note actually occurring. The Scottish wedding was followed by a weekend in a damp Warwickshire pub carpark, catching up with our 2cv … Continue reading →

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Final steps

Posted on October 29, 2012 by AdrianC

After (finally) leaving České Budějovice, we had no real alternative but a full-fat hack up through Germany. The route out of Czech took us past a stretch of the Vltava river, dammed by a hydroelectric plant, and thick with campsites… … Continue reading →

Posted in By Country - Belgium, By Country - Germany, Food stuff, Travel stuff | 8 Comments

Bouncing Czech – lots of beer and lots of fish

Posted on October 21, 2012 by EllieGee

After our visit to the Tatra Museum in Kopřivnice, we headed west to Olomouc, still in the Moravia region. A city of around 100,000 people, we had heard that it was less discovered than some of the popular South Bohemian … Continue reading →

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Kraking on

Posted on October 16, 2012 by AdrianC

Our only real time spent in Poland was to be in Kraków – easily the country’s major tourist destination, being the only main town to survive WW2 with no serious damage and the original architecture more-or-less intact. If any were … Continue reading →

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A tale of two cities

Posted on October 11, 2012 by AdrianC

When we got to Budapest, our first priority was to locate a dentist – the toothache that’d started to gently nag was becoming difficult to ignore. The staff at the campsite were helpful – not only did they recommend a … Continue reading →

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The Țuică-Ciuc choo-choo

Posted on October 3, 2012 by AdrianC

Having spent a day and a half sat in the carpark of the Vișeu sawmill, we’d got familiar with the rhythms of life there. In the early morning, the carpark spent an hour or two filling with tourists ready to … Continue reading →

Posted in By Country - Romania, Food stuff | 2 Comments

The Sighet garden

Posted on October 2, 2012 by AdrianC

After we left Fundu Moldovei, we had to face the best kind of dilemma – which gloriously beautiful mountain pass route to take into the Maramureș region? Do we head over the Prislop Pass, which takes us through tiny villages … Continue reading →

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Bucharest

Posted on September 18, 2012 by AdrianC

The campsite at Bucharest sits in woods to the north of the city, a very pleasant and clearly affluent area – there’s a large US embassy building just down the road, together with a massive shopping centre full of western-brand … Continue reading →

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Across Wallachia

Posted on September 15, 2012 by AdrianC

Romania. We really didn’t have the first clue what to expect from the country. Think about the Ceașescus, the 1989 revolution, and the orphanages and aid convoys in the aftermath. But it’s been a part of the EU for the … Continue reading →

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Through the Iron Gates

Posted on September 11, 2012 by EllieGee

And so it came time gradually to leave Serbia. We had chosen to return to the Danube to follow its course around 130km eastwards towards and along the famous Iron Gates gorge or Đerdap canyon as it’s known on the … Continue reading →

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