From Overland Ireland Tours: Introduction – Sure, have you never heard of an Irish half hour? It can stretch out for days and 10 is what youve got to experience this guided ‘road trip along the Antrim Coast, through The Wild Atlantic Way. From ancient Newgrange, its full tilt ahead to The Titanic Experience in Belfast, an interactive adventure about the most tragic ship in the world. Well wal Read on...
So looking forward to this trip. Our last summer motorhome holiday was 4 years ago June 2018. That was followed by a new knee op which cancelled the annual September trip, A year off while Bob got his heart sorted then 2020/2021 well Covid of course. We did have our trip to Spain via France in Feb / March but our main memories of that are Rain. Certainly not the winter sunshine break we had antici Read on...
How many places can you go to that offers so much ?. Egeskov Slot offered us plenty of parking and even an overnight spot if we wanted it . A museum of man and mechanics , classic cars, motorbikes and aeroplanes and a grocers museum . Although we never found the grocers museum . It also offered a Rescue museum and an outdoor camping exhibition . And if that was not enough an old smithy , playgroun Read on...
I was exploring NE Cherokee County and I found on the county map two historic Markers to visit. North of New Summerfield on State Hwy 110 I turned East on county road 4713. I did not know that the intersection is the center of the of Blackjack. (The current Blackjack Baptist Church is by that intersection.) The name Blackjack came from the many Blackjack Oak trees there; and the early settlers cut Read on...
Barcaldine closes for the weekend at 2pm on Saturdays. The tourist shops, bakery, souvenirs, art/craft galleries and general run of the mill shops all remain closed on Sundays. The pubs are open (there used to be 11 in the town) and the Laundromat is also open so it was a chance to get bed linen washed and dried. That is after I had to find some detergent – stupidly, I had left a new bottle of l Read on...
Last nights quick winter storm passed through and we awoke the next morning with everything covered in a beautiful blanket of fresh snow. Halloween in Romania! Never did I ever think I would be in Romania but here I was getting ready to celebrate Halloween at Draculas Castle! But first, we got the chance to spend the morning exploring the city of Brasov. We arrived in Brasov around 10am and immedi Read on...
Rynek we Wrocławiu - Market Square at dusk. South side of the Market Square - Złotego Pucharu (Golden Cup). Near the centre of the Altstadt is the Ring, originally the the four sides of which bear different 1910. IMG_5584
Leaving Oświęcim after lunch, the Globus took us through southwestern Poland via the Autostrady A4 motorway. This was Lower Silesia, an area of Poland that had been under Read on...
We hated to leave our hotel in Ione, WA. It was such a beautiful setting with the Pend Oreille River right outside our door and the access to the river was so convenient on the private dock. Kevin tried fishing but to no availthe owners said the water was cold and full of glacier and snow melt making fishing difficult. This did not stop Kevin from trying. We took off this morning at 9 am from the Read on...
We make our way through the train station at Basel. We are still on French territory. We flash our passports one more time at the customs official and now we are in Switzerland. Basel is much larger than the way station I imagined it to mix of classic Swiss architecture and modern buildings, all very clean and very quaint, but not too too precious as lakeside in Lucerne. I admire the mannered det Read on...
In 2018 Mom and I came to Iceland as part of a long back from Scotland that Iceland Air offers as part of their fares. We had about 36 hrs, long enough to do the 140 mile golden circle drive and to go to the blue lagoon. Truth be told we werent overly impressed, but I heard that to really see the beauty of Iceland you needed to drive the entire ring road around the island. That along with 50% off Read on...