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Dreaming of travel

Interesting Sussex town

Needing to think about something else, read about East Grinstead and Ashdown Forest because Forest Row is a place know well but there are more beautiful woods and normally drive past the turn off and on to Groombridge and Penshurst Place. Heard about Scientology, Tom Cruise, Queen Vic Burns Unit and Winnie the Pooh but […]

Nagasaki

Some time ago on a flight from Paris back to the UK was chatting to a family from Japan traveling for holiday over here. They were very excited and we talked about some places worth seeing over here.. Think traveling is opportunity and people you meet on your travels, seem happy It was a short […]

Ben Bohmer – Cappadocia and Daniel Goldstein – Sunrise

Nighttime

Standing outside looking up at the sky filled with stars, heard the summer evening wind blowing clouds across the sky, our neighbors coming home and some old car rattling along in the distance. Heard owls and noises from the bushes – maybe country mice and summer smells of stock blown by the wind and saw […]

Breakdown Recovery in Europe

Our breakdown travelling in Europe about a month ago was on a friday night driving over cobbles in a northern German city. A broken fan belt – which would normally take half an hour to fix been told. Although our policy covered this sort of thing with a hotel, alternative car even having the car […]

After the rain

Martin Lewis 8 Urgent post-Brexit Travel need to knows

“We’re heading towards the summer, millions turn their hopes to future sunny days both here and abroad. Yet, especially with Brexit round the corner, if you’ve booked a trip to Europe, there are some crucial checks you need to do”. more Martin Lewis

Netherlands- Spring

Panoramio -> Google Maps – Google Earth <- Google Album Archive

Reading back through information found online about migration of Panoramio – reallise that although signed up to Google+ and own (at this time) uploaded photographs to Panoramio Platform were migrated to Google Album Archive (and possibly Google Photos) in order to migrate to Google Maps and Google Earth but because of an issue to do […]

Edward Bear and Wife – Coming home for Christmas

French Toll Roads, Swiss Vignette and ViaMichelin

Finally have some time and worked out how much spent on toll roads during a short road trip through France this summer – a lot, more than double the cost of a vignette for Switzerland valid for 6 months. Even more when you include the almost 3% interest rate my bank charged me for converting […]

How does Switzerland control its borders with Europe

We drove to Switzerland this summer from France and read lots of worrying things beforehand about how we would have all our food, even coffee taken away from us – so even though we were camping some of the time – we brought very little with us to avoid this possability and ended up in […]

Villages facing extinction turned into ‘albergo diffuso’ (scattered hotel)

© GETTY The Italian-speaking Swiss village of Corippo has a population of 12 – Federica Grassi Written by Gavin Haines of the Telegraph “Scattered across the scenic Verzasca Valley, the Swiss village of Corippo is slowly turning into a ghost town. Home to 300 people during its 19th-century peak, the population has dwindled to just […]

Sussex

Hope Royal visitors will come back and see more unofficially – when more freedom to explore both the good and find people & organisations that would welcome your support. Brighton is vibrant seaside lady with colleges, shops, parks and green vibe but it is also a place people come for not good reasons and has […]

Sometimes wonder

Few years ago drove from Sussex to other end of Switzerland (and up a mountain) – didn’t reallize how high the place was we were staying at. Beautiful but terrifying. On the way, spent one night camping in the east of France – arriving very late after everyone had gone to bed. The ground was […]

Saints-en-Puisaye

The name – La Puisaye we read comes from a French archaic verb meaning to ‘slog through the mud’ but in fact the countryside is beautiful large wheat fields with little areas of woodland. This small village used to be called just ‘Saints’ and is close to le Moullin de Vanneau more than 1200 years […]

the man driving the bus

im sure my fear of heights is about the same as before our trip but driving back down to the village at 1100 m from 700 m higher… just felt so happy. the one thing i took away was trusting the man who was driving the bus

Sunrise in the mountains

Longing to travel for some time but things happening until just threw a few things in the back of our car and went. We rented a chalet on a small farm in the Swiss Alps for couple of nights and travelled through France camping one night and sleeping another in a basic hotel south of […]