Travel 2017 – Moselle Road Trip, Day 4

Tuesday September 26th – Day 4, Burg Eltz, Burg Pyrmont and Burg Thurant Tuesday turned out to be all about the castles, one of the things people tend to think of first when they think of German tourism. Lynne had demanded castles and so I was keen she should get them! The plan was to…

Travel 2016 – Berlin, Day 2

Saturday, December 3rd 2016 – Berlin We had a plan – or at least we thought we did! After a brief, brutal but ultimately succesful fight with the coffee machine in the hotel room, we took a leisurely breakfast in the Interconinental Club before stepping out into a crisp, cold but above all clear winter’s…

Travel 2008 – Dresden, Day 3

Sunday, 7th December 2008 – Dresden, Day 3 Sunday dawned reasonably bright and sunny while we ate breakfast: It was just as impressive as the day before: By the time we’d worked our way through that lot, the weather had turned and it was hideously soggy, with the rain coming down almost horizontally. It also didn’t…