Friday, October 3, 2014 We visited the very helpful Tourist Information Center in Caen and got all the information we needed to visit the Normandy Beaches. The first piece of advice was to visit the Museum/Memorial of Caen. Although it…
Monday, September 29, 2014 After lunch we said goodbye to Marijke and Coen and drove from Wageningen to Tourcoing; the latter picked solely as stopover en route to Versailles to avoid a long day’s driving. There is not much to…
Sunday, September 28, 2014 We had a pleasant drive north to Wageningen in The Netherlands stopping only once for coffee. Our trusty GPS did not really know where Coen and Marijke lived, but it was not before long we deciphered…
Monday, September 22, 2014 We slept in a little to help get over our jet-lag. Stephen was sent out to get some Starbucks from the nearby train station. Lunchtime was fast approaching and we arranged to have frites and frikadelleworst…
Sunday, September 21, 2014 We landed back in Belgium after a short stop-over in Munich. Fortunately both ourselves and our bags made the tight connection. We headed into Brussels to take a few drinks with Steven and Sophia. So nice…
Thursday, August 21, 2014 We said goodbye to Eeklo for now and took a train to Brussel. We’d never visited Brussel together before so we decided that after seeing lots of new and exotic places a visit to Belgium’s capital…
Saturday, August 16, 2014 And then it had arrived, kind of faster than we’d expected, and bitter-sweet: the last driving day of our ‘Overland Adventure’. Sure, we’d still planned to go places before going home to San Francisco, but, as…
Thursday and Friday, August 14-15, 2014 It’s always good to take every opportunity to catch up with go0d friends so onto Groningen we went to see our Heleen and Mark.
Monday to Wednesday, August 11-13, 2014 The main reason for stopping in Hamburg was to catching up with Ilse and Nils, and, to give Stephen an extra ‘tick’ in the ‘200 Best Cities Book – Lonely Planet’. We had the…
Save the Date – August 16 We set out on an Around the World Trip in May/June 2013. The Overland Adventure started for real on September 1, 2013, in Sydney, and will finish in Eeklo on August 16, 2014. In…
Saturday, August 9, 2014 It was a 600km drive from Krakow to Berlin and we were back on the good old E40, which was in ‘slightly’ better nick than in some of the other countries we’d been on it, so…
Thursday, August 7, 2014 Move day with a drive from Warsaw, south to Krakow. The road was good, fast and most importantly had by-passes around most of the small villages. We got a little rain along the way. Also along…
Monday, August 4, 2014 Hello Poland! It was a long drive, but still managed to make it to Warsaw in time to get into the executive lounge and gobble up a free meal and down a few drinks before closing…
Saturday, August 2, 2014 A move day combined with a number of tourist activities. In fact more tourist activities than we had planned. We left Riga and headed to the Hill of Crosses. Although the hill is modest in size,…
Thursday, July 31, 2014 Our GPS got a little confused and could not work out the way to Riga. But we didn’t panic! Pulled out the backup paper map and headed on gut feeling and a south westerly bearing. It…
