This is a two day blog as these have been mainly uneventful travelling days. We catch the chunnel tomorrow just before 10am so have had two days driving north to get to our favourite campsite in the area, Chateau Gandspette at Eperlecques, near to St Omer. Decided to do the biggest part of the drive yesterday which took us to Laon. A 6 hour drive which is quite long enough especially for Bob who bruised himself when he slid off the step of Tandy a couple of days ago. This makes sitting a big painful even after his bruise has been anointed with my magic arnica gel. We were sorry to say goodbye to our Stork friends who entertained us so very well on our Turcqheim campsite but have motorhome must travel and it's time to ... read more

It's quite clear once we start heading steadily Northwards that we are coming to the end of our trip but still 4 days to go. Time to stop off in the Alsace for a couple of nights. We left our lovely campsite in Lucerne in good time, gave the lake and Mount Pilatus a wave as we headed out of town on the motorway to get us clear of the town. Then a steady drive across Northern Switzerland in the direction of Basel. We passed a few lakes and lots of fields and followed a railway which ran alongside the road for a good part of the way. To get us past Basel we took to the motorway and found ourselves back in Germany which was a slight surprise (my map is small scale so it ... read more

Moved on to a another town, another campsite, only 15 miles or so round Lake Lucerne, to Lucerne itself. We were pitched up on our new campsite, Camping International Lido, by 10.30am. This is just across a quiet road from the lake with a rather lovely lido between us and the water. Campsite is expensive. a - because everything in Switzerland is and b - because this is a city campsite in a very desirable location and c - because it is not ACSI so no discount. It is however excellent, has everything we need including good sanitaires, a little cafe and of course the swimming opportunities offered at the lido. Nice level pitch, Kisbee positively leapt out of the garage and off we went to visit Lucerne town. Only 10 minutes round the lake and ... read more

Fantastic. The weather has settled to a bright blue gorgeousness and we are in the best possible location to enjoy it. The backdrop to campsite is the beautiful Mount Rigi and today is the day to get up and there enjoy its offerings. No Kisbee needed as it was only a step down to the lakeside where we jumped aboard the red train on the cog railway to take us to the top of the mountain. Great timing, arrived at the station just a couple of minutes before the train, which runs hourly, departed and got prime window seats in a open sided carriage. Stunning views of the lake and surroundings as we climbed higher and higher up Mount Rigi. Nearer the top there are three or four station stopping points. One is the changeover for ... read more

Change of country today. So its auf Wiedersehen to lovely Austria and Gruß Gott to Switzerland. A very scenic route was planned for today’s drive and incredibly scenic it was indeed. No motorways though our road followed the motorway for much of the way. Due West from Innsbruck along some pretty roads, mountains either side but we were following the river valley so the road was pretty straight and flat. There were lots of motorbikes on the road with us as well as plenty of cyclists but no trucks. Assume trucks are banned from the roads on Sunday as in France. At Landeck we started to climb, and climb again as we were going over the famous Arlberg Pass. Using the main, original road, not through the very long tunnel. A brilliant drive indeed with some ... read more