Blogs from Carnforth, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

March 16: Fussen, Germany - Neuschwanstein Castle 17 Fussen, Germany 18 Bacharach, Germany - Staying in a youth hostel in a castle 19 Bacharach, Germany 20 Traveling up the Rhine (St. Goar, Braubach, Marksburg, Die Lorelei), Staying in Koblenz, Germany 21 Explore Koblenz 22 Trip down and back up the Moselle river valley (More castles) 23 Eschwege, Germany to meet David and stay with Claudio! 24 Eschwege, Germany 25 Eschwege, Germany 26 Eschwege, Germany 27 Eschwege, Germany 28 Eschwege, Germany 29 Traveling to Prague, Czech Republic 30 Prague, Czech Republic 31 Prague, Czech Republic April 1 Prague, Czech Republic 2 Olomoucs, Czech Republic 3 Olomoucs, Czech Republic 4 Krakow, Poland 5 Krakow, Poland 6 Krakow, Poland 7 Krakow, Poland 8 Levoca, Slovakia 9 Levoca, Slovakia 10 Eger, Hungary 11 Eger, Hungary 12 ... read more

Looking back on the last few days… Have become good friends with Andy, Michael, and Britta, playing cards or ping pong and hanging out every night. Spent one afternoon sitting out under a tree with the sheep, just reading my Bible and really enjoyed that. Unfortunately that won’t be possible very often because of all the rain that is supposed to come this winter. Friday we had our first seminar, which was on Worship. It was ok, a little more interactive than normal lectures, but not anything profound. Friday night was family group night, and our host parents, Phil and Rachael, took us in a minibus to their small village of Warton. It supposedly has connections to the George Washington family. Later at their house we played games, and got to try some awesome English cheeses, ... read more

Early out we went , by 06.50 we were on the road , trying to make up for yesterdays shortened route, I was determined to get through Preston by 9.00 am.en route breakfast was to be at a road side van , a massive bap/cob full of all the things that make a man happy, we chatted over the bap and coffee , wondering about the wherabouts of Matt Green , the other lad who we had met on the thurso train and who had cycled with us to Inverness , as we talked i spotted the day glo orange jersy that Matt had been wearing drifting past this big layby , we quickly got on the bikes and chased him down ...so now we were 3 , destination Shropshire via the Mersey Ferry. Preston passed ... read more

Tuesday 22.12.2009 Day 68 Hadrian’s Wall All though is snow lots again last night we decided to brave the snow again today and go to Hadrian’s Wall. Hadrian ’s Wall was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 122AD, it Stretches for 80 Miles from Newcastle to Bowness- on-Solway near Carlisle, and was the northern frontier of the empire for almost 300 years. It was superseded in Norman times by dozens of castles and fortified houses some of which remain largely intact. We went to see one of the forts that where still very intact it was closed due to winter but still worth the drive in the snow. The roads around the wall where covered in snow and we skidded along the road almost into another as we came to one intersection but we took ... read more

Sunday 20.12.2009 Day 67 The lakes, Rages against the machine get xmass number one. We have a great room close to Pine Lake (the lake the resort) with a full kitchen. We did our shopping yesterday which is good as there is so much snow on the ground that we cannot get out of our resort. We got in the car and gave it a try but did not get very far before we turned around and went home. So we explored the resort instead and made a snow woman and put it outside our room and a few hours a little boy about 5 came along and put in his sled and took it away. Later we found where he had discarded our Snowman taking the carrot nose and been eyes we rescued her and ... read more