Sevnica We drove to our next stop in Sevnica taking the country lanes rather than the motorway, and we’re glad that we did as the scenery was really picturesque now that the leaves on the trees have started to change, and we’re now hoping for a very colourful drive through Croatia. The roads weren’t too … Read more
First stop this morning was the gorge at Vintgar, just a few kilometres from Lake Bled, down some steep and narrow winding lanes. We parked up, paid the €5 admission and went along the path to the gorge. The gorge is 1.6 km long, and carves its way through the rocks of the Hom and Boršt … Read more
Ferlach We again avoided the tolls and drove from Graz to our next stop at Ferlach on the back roads, which meant crossing two mountain passes. Whilst taking a bit longer, and requiring a lot of effort driving around loads of steep hairpin bends, the scenery definitely made it worthwhile, even though the skies were … Read more
Kapellen First of all, I hope you didn’t all groan too much at the Ultravox Vienna lyrics I dropped into in the last post! Our next stop after Vienna was Kapellen, a small village half way along the road to Graz. Again we took the motorway, with the GoBox merrily beeping each time we passed … Read more
Waldhausen We had seen a few Tesco superstores whilst driving through the Czech Republic so we checked online and, sure enough, there was one in Český Krumlov, and so that was our first stop of the day after leaving Chvalšiny. Back in the UK we’ve been doing our supermarket shopping online for many years now, … Read more
Chvalšiny (don’t ask me how to pronounce it) is located in the south west of the Czech Republic, around 100 miles away from Prague. Once off the motorways to get out of Prague (more tolls!), the journey took us through the beautiful Bohemian countryside. It’s just a shame that the weather wasn’t great – grey … Read more
Leaving Děčín, we drove along to a distribution point for the road toll gizmo to fit in our windscreen. It wasn’t as painful as I was expecting – I was given a form to complete which had instructions in English, and then had to show the lady my driving licence along with the V5 for … Read more
Meissen After a full-on week in Berlin-Leipzig-Colditz we really needed a few days downtime. We chose Meissen, as the stellplatz was part of a quiet rural hotel on the outskirts of town. Travelling around in the van, we’ve been woken up in the morning by many different sounds: dogs barking; cockerels crowing; church bells ringing; … Read more
Leipzig I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with our sat nav. Most of the time it’s great, getting us from A to B with the minimum of fuss. On our trip to Leipzig however, it drove me nuts. First it decided to take us along the country lanes rather than the motorway, and … Read more