Blogs from Luxembourg, Europe - page 13

Today the Orrs left for a concert in Germany. The kids were with Joelle's parents. We were alone in the house with Oonagh their big beautiful dog who we had to take out three times a day to do her business. Jonny wrote down the bus number and the directions into Luxemboug City as we wanted to spend the day touring the city. They also said we could use whatever groceries we wanted from the cupboards and we could also do our laundry, but darling Ben had already done all our laundry so now we only had clean clothes. The girls wanted to stay at home - Wi-Fi again, but I insisted we go into the city. The Orrs also said that they were not going to be able to do the christmas dinner thing as ... read more

Now listen here. While all of you are sitting there each day going to the extreme trouble of clicking the icon you've (hopefully) added to your favourites bar in your internet browser to find our blog page in your nice easy day to day lives, take a little time and think about the pain that I am going through as your main connection to our travelling experience. Let me throw a few numbers at you. 26,876 kilometres travelled since I left Australia 3,099 kilometres since I started driving the campervan 8,710 photographs, totalling 34.5 GB of space on my hard drive, not including 2088 deletions of crap photos to make sure your viewing experience is optimal 69,908 words of blogs at an average of 50 words a minute, which gives 24.73 continuous hours spent in front ... read more

Of all the places that I visited, I think the one country I would be most excited to go back and visited would be Luxembourg. When we decided to go to Luxembourg we decided to go to a smaller city that not that many people would go to as a change of pace from big city life. Honestly, I think Trebenice gotten under our skin and left a soft little flutter in our stomachs. Driving to Clervaux was an adventure in and of itself. We put Clervaux into the SatNav and it proceeded to take us on a country lane deep into the heart and forest of Luxembourg. We had read that Luxembourg had the cheapest gas of any European Country, so upon leaving Heidelberg we decided not to put a full tank in so that ... read more

Four days to departure and six to commencing the trek! I can't sleep at night! Wake up in the middle of my dreams! and, dream I do, every night the past week! I never had so many dream nights! Wow! And not all dreams are about the mountains, some are about smaller peaks and valleys, if you know me, you also know what I mean :-P Others are about being chased by wild animals, others are … well … can't write about them here since my family reads it too :-P This past Sunday I run the 'Route du Vin' half-marathon along the most beautiful track I have ever run on - 10 km along and the retrace same path along the Moselle river, amids the vineyards and cheering locals. I was taking it ease,watching no ... read more

Learning from the experiences of my esteemed fellow travelers, I have decided to sign up early to the TravelBlog site and get a feel for it from the comfort of my couch, before I am forced to stare at some medieval monitor in the sticks and type on a crunchy/sticky keyboard in a dimly lit cyber café :) There are many interesting features in this site for which there will be no time to learn them on the road, so here I go, begin my travels a whole 10 days ahead of schedule. I also look at it that I extend my vacation by the same ten days. Though not sure how it works, because my whole life seems to be a one long vacation. If one thinks of work as means to live, and I ... read more