Europe 2018 Gaining momentum home Today we slowly start to make our way home. After getting the last few souveniers, and tried to store as much warmth as possible, we finally made our way to the airport. Everything
Europe 2018 Flamëéèêeeeencõōooo Madrid really is a night time city. Besides finding somewhere nice to relax, a lot of activities around here seem to be more bouncy during the night than they are during the day.
Europe 2018 La Paloma I appear to be slowly reaching the "travelled out" stage. I'm not quite jumping on every opportunity to see every new thing. We read through the guide, left ourselves a lot
Europe 2018 Ever changing landscape Today counts as another long driving day. This time we moderated ourselves a little bit more with the rest stops though and did not end up having to drive the second half through
Europe 2018 On the hill Part of the reason to head into France was to be able to see the other side of the Pyrénées mountains. I expected the sights to be somewhat similar to the Spanish side,
Europe 2018 Saved We wanted to keep our travels simple in terms of the number of places we see. The more places we try to get to, the more time we spend in transit, and the
Europe 2018 The spiders are coming! So ... turns out that the area that we thought was really central, and nicely cheap, also happens to be one of the immigration suburbs. This consequently means that we stick out like sore
Europe 2018 Cupcake Today was an exciting day, filled with basically everything from the entire spectrum. We originally had planned to do the larger jumps between cities just by train but in the last minute, got
Europe 2018 Gaudi Experience After placing lots of markers for ourselves about where we might find the famous Gaudi buildings, we walked through basically all of Barcelona in their hunt. And with the careful marker placement, we
Europe 2018 Plastic Fish It's so demotivational to start heading back before the sun has well and truly set several hours ago. Especially given that we are still used to the sun setting at the time that
Europe 2018 European Beach After yesterdays long list of complaints, we went on a mission to get a nicer room. The first attempt of this lead us to getting exactly the same room, with exactly the same
Europe 2018 Calle Turística With everything packed this morning, all goodbye's said, we made our way to the airport. This still being germany, we made our way to the airport quickly. Which meant that when we got
Europe 2018 Mannheim After spending a lot of yesterday driving, we had to make our way back and took a detour via Mannheim. And as we arrived and were driving past the Rosengarten, we noticed that
Europe 2018 Ulm I know, I missed a day, but somehow I also didn't really have enough to fill an entire blog entry. We went a long way to go shopping, I remembered why shopping wasn't
Europe 2018 Party Today was party time. And the weather appeared to agree. The metorology department yesterday said that it was going to be sunny with absolutely no chance of rain for the next three days.
Europe 2018 Windmills around the corner Today was another travel day. We booked a train in the afternoon so that we would be able to do something in the morning, but by the time that we got to the
Europe 2018 Experiencing East Germany We went to the German Democratic Republic's Museum yesterday, but somehow we failed to get the full experience. Even the Trabbi they had had been rebuilt into a simulator that looked like it
Europe 2018 Berlin My feet do not appear to have forgiven me for Delft, and while I was able to walk further than yesterday, I now also have two blisters joining my feet. sigh We went
Europe 2018 Slow and Steady Railway Progress The last train we took was obviously too complicated to work properly. It was an Express train, it needed to get split halfway, things were bound to break. So this time we took
Europe 2018 Delft So … I'm kind of tired. And just want to go to bed. How did I end up this badly? I got left alone in Delft today. Everybody else was busy doing other important
Europe 2018 Record Highs I know that we are coming from winter, but the Netherlands appears to be compensate. They appear to be having the hottest summer in recorded history (according to the complaining locals), and since
Europe 2018 Fancy Planes Well, it is time to go travelling again. And we probably have one of the longest journey's of non-stop travelling ahead of us to date. If you don't count the three nano-seconds of