Blogs from Europe - page 13055

Once I had woken up, I cleaned up a bit and then started to walk around the town. I had my trusty map and my sixth sense on high, so I was not getting lost today. And what a journey I had, a marvelous little city, some nice parks, a great city lake with a path that took you all around. And the heat, beautiful. This lasted most of the day, then the clouds came in. I thought to myself, good time to find the museums, and I thought this, and then I kept walking, and it was about that time the hail came, and then the buckets of rain. I found a cafe and drank fanta orange for an hour or so and planned my next few days. The next few days were great fun, ... read more

We headed further along the south coast today to stay in a place called Klaustur. Along the way we stopped at a good number of sites. After driving through some little towns and a floodplain we reached Seljalandsfoss waterfall. You can walk behind it (though you get quite wet!), and there are a couple of other waterfalls if you go for a short walk along towards the campsite near it. We scrambled up a mud hill to get to see one of them (My walking boots were in storage, so I was in my trainers with Al holding my hand so I didn't get too scared of falling down the hill...), worth it to get up to see it though. We then carried on in the car to another waterfall - Skogafoss, which is 60m tall. ... read more

On the way down to Groningen, we talked to some mototourists at a gas station and heard that the city of Groningen itself wasn't much, at least not as interesting as the coast, or towns like Sneek (pronounced "Snake"). On hearing that, Zak had a flashback and remembered that Sneek was definitely one of the cities touted on tourist brochures as a beautiful, sporty, trendy, surfing & boating town worth visiting. So to Sneek it was, and we didn't mind adding a couple of hours driving, just so we'd get to a beautiful spot. On arriving in Sneek, we asked around, and were directed to a camping ground called De Domp. But it was no dump - it was gorgeous! It was just before closing time, so it was lucky we made it in. After checking ... read more

So after our failed attempt at the 'Tour de France' we decided a couple of day trips were in order. So day trip number one was to Anwerp and the other to Brussels. Not much to tell about the trips unfortunatly -- just the standard touring around siteseeing. So this entry is not really going to be a blog but more of a photo gallery with pictures from our day trips (Horta House is the only one from Brussels) and some from when we went to the sea with Leslie and the boys.... read more

Our holiday started in the world's largest maze - Venice. Some tourists had chosen to get maps, this only made things worse. They were lost, whereas we just didn't know where we were at any given time. We managed to stumble upon most of the the city's treasures including St Marks Square, the Lido and rubbish overpriced tourist restaurants. We left Venice in a hire car and drove into Slovenia through beautiful mountain roads to Lake Bled. Situated just 40 minutes outside of Llubjiana (the capital) is a stunning lake famous for the church located on a little island in the middle. We set up camp at Camp Bled located on the banks of the lake with town a short stroll away. We swam out to the island in the middle of the lake to ring ... read more