Category Archives: Travel stuff

Kickstarting the Silk Road

Posted on April 18, 2013 by AdrianC

We’ve been following Brad and Sheena’s blog for a little while now. They’re travelling and blogging from the same type of ’80s VW as ours, but their trip is a notch or three above ours in ambition. Since leaving their … Continue reading →

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Answers to some frequently asked questions

Posted on November 5, 2012 by EllieGee

By way of an initial reflection on our year and a half on the road, here are some answers to the questions we were most often asked on the road. What is your favourite place? This is the question that … 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

Going back to Český Krumlov

Posted on October 22, 2012 by EllieGee

I first visited Český Krumlov on a chilly spring weekend in the early 90s with a friend who was teaching in Prague at the time. We fell for its fairytale atmosphere, zany painted tower, the uneven windy cobbled lanes, crumbly … Continue reading →

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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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Beyond imagining

Posted on October 17, 2012 by EllieGee

There is a town in south western Poland, about 70km from Kraków, called Oświęcim. When the Nazis invaded in 1939, they found a barracks complex there that would become very useful to them, with its good rail links from the … Continue reading →

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Cross-country run

Posted on October 16, 2012 by AdrianC

We’re finding writing this post slightly embarrassing. I’ll just come out and say it now – we spent less than 24hrs in a country. I know, shameful. When we left Budapest, we headed north towards the wine region around Eger, … Continue reading →

Posted in By Country - Hungary, By Country - Poland, By Country - Slovakia, Travel stuff | 2 Comments

Up around the Bend

Posted on October 15, 2012 by EllieGee

We needed to linger in the Budapest environs between Adrian’s dental appointments. We’d spent several days in the city, so it seemed time to head up river. The Danube Bend is, as the name suggests, a dramatic bend in the … Continue reading →

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After a month in Romania

Posted on October 10, 2012 by EllieGee

Back in the mid-eighties, I read a magazine article about the plight of Romanians under Ceaușescu. I remember being shocked by the state control over the most personal aspects of people’s lives. In reality families couldn’t afford or find available … Continue reading →

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Towards the plain

Posted on October 7, 2012 by AdrianC

When we arrived in Cluj, evening was about to settle in – so we headed straight for the campsite. There’s two – one that we’d been told was the best site in the country, but a good distance out of … Continue reading →

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