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

17 Aug 2018
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.

16 Aug 2018
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

15 Aug 2018
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

14 Aug 2018
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,

13 Aug 2018
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

12 Aug 2018
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

11 Aug 2018
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

10 Aug 2018
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

09 Aug 2018
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

08 Aug 2018
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

07 Aug 2018
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

06 Aug 2018
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

05 Aug 2018
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

04 Aug 2018
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.

02 Aug 2018
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

01 Aug 2018
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

31 Jul 2018
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

30 Jul 2018
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

29 Jul 2018
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

28 Jul 2018
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

27 Jul 2018
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

26 Jul 2018