My Mum was with us last week so we headed to Garmisch and its fabulous mountains for a few days. As it’s not too much of a detour, we stopped at Schwangau on the way to visit Neuschwanstein – King Ludwig’s iconic castle, inspiration for Walt Disney’s fairytale castles all those years ago. Cinderella et […]
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Beautiful Berchtesgaden
The amount of our visitors who have expressed surprise at the beauty Bavaria has to offer, and have said that they had always previously thought of Germany as a grey and uninspiring country, will never cease to amaze me. And a little like my determination to stamp out the myths that all English Food is […]
Of Love Notes and Lakes (three days at Lake Como)
That horrible journey the other day, the one that was ever so slightly traumatic? I might be in a hurry to forget that, but the destination itself was unforgettable, and completely worth the whole hideous experience… Having never been to that part of Italy before, I had heard on many occasions that Lake Como was […]
Capture the Colour
There are many things you can take away with you from a trip – memories, souvenirs, and in my case countless countless pictures. The following set captured my imagination thanks to the colours in them… Blue: Taken at one of my favourite places in Denmark – Louisiana, which regular readers will undoubtedly be sick […]
Four Countries in One Day…
There are times when car journeys are memorable for their novelty value. Take our recent trip for example, which saw us drive through four different countries in a little under six hours (it was possibly five, but I am not sure if we went through Liechtenstein!) There are times when car journeys are memorable thanks […]