Annabel's Travelblog

Sevrier, Haut-Savoie It really was the most enormous Lidl you ever did see! Easily as big as your average hypermarket! I went over after bre...

Bourg-en-Bresse, Auvergne My finger was a lot better this morning - I was still aware it wasn't quite right, but it didn't really hu...

Plombières-lès-Dijon, France Happy Black History Month, everybody.  It was raining when we woke up this morning (at 07:00; I had set the ala...

Chalons-en-Champagne, France Always used to be called Chalons-sur-Marne, of course. I can't remember when it was renamed.  Which numpty ...

Landrecies, Hauts-de-France In hindsight (always a wonderful thing), we would have done better to have gone down to Sussex on Saturday after...

Brixton, London, UK I haven't blogged over the weekend because most of it wasn't that interesting, so I thought I'd concatenate ...

Blériot-Plage, Hauts-de-France, France Did feel a lot better this morning - still not 100% sure I'm not getting a cold, but a good night...

Melsele, East Flanders, Belgium I had hoped to go for an explore this morning, but found myself incredibly tired and sleepy, and a bit heada...

Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Well, I don't know whether St Swithun works in Germany as he does at home, but if he does, they...

Bückeburg, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Germany We were woken in the night by a thunderstorm and torrential rain - had to close the bedroom...

Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany The Swan Whisperer would have liked to have gone for a run this morning, but I pointed out that if he did,...

Berlin, Germany We didn't hurry out of bed this morning, it being Sunday, and it was 10:30 before we left the WoMo. This was intentional...

Berlin, Germany Up early this morning, as we had a bit of a drive to Leipzig, where the Swan Whisperer wanted to parkrun. I had a breakfast ...

Zwenkau, Saxony, Germany In the end, we reverted to Plan A, as the place the Swan Whisperer thought of in Leipzig was fully booked. And I...

Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany It was cold in the night. The bedroom window was wide open, as was the skylight, so I ended up grabbing a r...

Möhnesee, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany With hindsight, we should have filled up with diesel before leaving Belgium, but we assumed diesel wo...

Blegny-Mine, Wallonie, Belgium We were woken in the small hours by celebratory car horns - we assumed Belgium had beaten the USA, as, indeed...

Tournai, Wallonie, Belgium We decided to go for our explore this morning, before the heat of the day.  We had a lovely walk round the Old To...

Tournai, Wallonie, Belgium A very long day! We have spent the past week in Sussex, keeping an eye on my mother while my sister and her partn...

 Brixton, London We were booked on the 11:50 crossing,which meant reporting to Le Shuttle no earlier than 09:50 and no later than 10:50.We d...