Annabel's Travelblog

  London So we are home!  I was too tired to blog yesterday by the time we had got  home and unpacked everything, so am catching up now. Get...

Blériot-Plage, Calais, Hauts-de-France The last full day of our holiday started rather well, with a champagne tasting at Boulard Bouquaire, ...

Cormicy, Grand-Est, France Today has actually been pretty fine and warm, apart from a few spits and spots of rain, but mostly sunny.  Which ...

St-Avold, Grand-Est, France Once again it was not raining this morning - we have had rain today, but nothing like the past two days.  I went...

Karlsruhe, Germany It was a bit dreich this morning, but the Swan Whisperer attempted a run anyway - not a success as he got a twinge in wha...

Somewhere in Germany I'm not quite sure where we are tonight - I think it may be somewhere called Kissing, which seems unlikely. We had ...

Maurach-am-Achensee, Tirol. We were up very early this morning.  We were going to have to catch the 09:10 to Jenbach if we were to make the ...

Maurach-am-Achensee, Tirol The planned excursion for today was a trip up the Gramaialm, in a tractor-trailor outfit called the Huttopia Expr...

Maurach-am-Achensee, 22 July 2205 Today was, for me, a rest day.  Many people were going into Innsbruck, but the Swan Whisperer wanted to do...

Maurach-am-Achensee, Tirol The weather took a turn for the worse, but we are not made of sugar, so a considerable number of us boarded the ...

Maurach-am-Achense, Tyrol, Austria We didn't hang about this morning, as we wanted to get here early, and were away by 09:30 - with the ...

Saverne, Alsace The funfair finally quietened down at midnight - technically it closed at 23:00, but music went on thumping out until about ...

Reims, Grand-Est A rather dull day.  We could have arrived here in Reims really quite early, but there really wasn't much else to do ,so...

Calais, Hauts-de-France This holiday is basically why we couldn't go to Oberstdorf this year, as either we would have had to have set of...

Blériot-Plage, Calais, France Today has very much been what Anne Shirley would call a "Jonah Day". It started off all right - the ...

La-Madeleine-de-Nonancourt, Normandy, France Felt much better this morning, thankfully, although not quite 100%, but quite well enough to g...

La Roche-Posay, Nouvelle-Aqui taine, France It was a lovely morning this morning, and, despite having to pay an extra €6 for out staying our...

Cognac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France This morning slightly spoilt by the discovery that I had made a mistake booking the Camping-Car Park, and...

Arjuzanx, Morcenx-la-Nouvelle, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France There was a lovely sunrise when I woke up this morning - I don't think my phot...

Pamplona, Navarre, Spain So today was All About Pamplona. The Swan Whisperer went for a run first thing, only to reappear just as I was abou...