John's Travel Blogs

Category: Germany

  • Berlin to Caen

    Berlin to Caen

    The last few days we have done a lot of miles to reach our ferry port near Caen (France). We are booked on the 4.30pm to Portsmouth. We are currently sat in a really nice wine/delicatessan/bistro place having a lovely meal surrounded by bottles of wine. We plan to walk out with a few of them.

    On the way through Germany, we visited Detmold. My family spent a couple of years here when I was about 9 years old and my dad was in the army. He was based at the British army camp, now long gone. I managed to find our old house, the playground we used and the location of the ‘Sally Army’ we used.

  • Finland to Germany.. 6 countries in 2 days

    Finland to Germany.. 6 countries in 2 days

    we crossed from Helsinki (Finland) to Tallin (Estonia) on a three hour crossing with Viking Lines.

    We camped overnight near the border with Latvia and on the next day crossed both Latvia and Lithuiania into Poland.

    The countryside gradually changed from fir forests, to open farmland. Also the standard of driving changed. Lots of tailgating, aggressive driving and speeding.

    We stopped last night in Germany just outside Berlin, today we have walked around the city seeing sights such as the Brandenberg Gate, the Berlin wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Reichtag and lots more.

  • Days 4 and 5 Bremerhaven ( Germany) to Aabernraa (Denmark)

    Days 4 and 5 Bremerhaven ( Germany) to Aabernraa (Denmark)

    our focus in the last two days is to travel North to Denmark which we have achieved. On the way we have past through mostly flat lands crossed by canals and ditches but also through the heavily industrial city port of Hamburg.

    We have changed the date of our ferry from Denmark to Sweden from this Sunday to this Friday. We have been looking for things to do in Denmark and because the big noisy city of Copenhagen does to appeal to us, we have decided to travel through the middle of Denmark to the Northern tip and then down to Freiderkshavn where we catch the ferry to Gothenburg. This will not take the 4 days we originally planned.

    This afternoon we have been exploring the historic old town of Aabenraa with buildings dated from 1711 onwards.

  • Days 2 and 3 Amsterdam to Bremerhaven

    Days 2 and 3 Amsterdam to Bremerhaven

    I successfully picked up Patty from Schipol airport and we spent the first night together in the van about 1.5 hours North East of Amsterdam. It was a nice little campsite in the middle of the very flat and rural Dutch countryside. It gave us an opportunity to catch up and to organise the van.

    Day three we started West and almost immediately found this windmill and shop..

    It was a farm shop full of local produce, at very affordable prices. We stocked up with a few essentials such as goats cheese 🧀 😀.

    We spent the rest of the day driving into Germany and are now in Bremerhaven on tge North West German coast. We went for a lovely meal at a fish restaurant in the port last night (thank you mum 🥰, who paid for it 😘).

  • Slovakia, Austria, Czechia and Germany

    After leaving Hungary, we travelled through Slovakia, Austria, Czechia to Bavaria in Germany. We only stopped in Bavaria.

    Bavaria was stunning, I would not have been at all surprised if Hansel and Gretal had come skipping down the street holding hands. We had a meal at a local restaurant. What could be better than eating sausage and sauerkraut in Bavaria? Well, maybe it could have done with a little less of those tummy bugs. I was sick for 24 hours, luckily Patty ate something different.

    We had a short drive the next day for obvious reasons. We stayed at the Grimm’s family farmstead. A working farm with a restaurant and selling their own wine. I had bread and water, Patty had a flan, which turned out to be a thin crust pizza.