Annabel's Travelblog

Kircheim unter Teck, Baden-Württemburg, Germany I slept really well last night - I think I must have dozed off about 11, then woke at 12:30 ...

Oberstdorf, Allgäu, Bavaria Competition day 5 This is being written in two halves, as I have had such a frustrating morning! All due to fact...

Oberstdorf, Allgäu, Bavaria Competition day 4 Really didn't feel at all well this morning, so stayed quietly in the WoMo, other than a q...

Oberstdorf, Allgäu, Bavaria  3rd day of competition  There's always one day when one doesn't want to watch all that much of the comp...

Oberstdorf, Allgäu, Bavaria The weather forecast for today was absolutely dire, prophesying rain all day, but in fact, although there were a...

Kirchheim unter Teck, Germany Today was the final day of competition, and, as always on the last day, lots of great skating to watch. ...

Started out today feeling much better, and was up at the rink in good time to cheer on friends in the two Bronze Women III classes. And chat...

I woke up at dawn to see this wonderful sunrise out of my bedroom window! But it was a premature awakening - I fell asleep agai...

There was nothing I really wanted to watch until late afternoon today, so after a lazy start (I was lazy; the SW went for a run!) , I set ou...

Why do ice rinks always have such dreadfully uncomfortable seats? It simply isn't possible to sit and watch a competition all day withou...

The skating started this afternoon, although there was nothing we wanted to see until about 5 pm. So this morning I went for another walk ar...

I am not sure whether it was the church bells or the cowbells that woke me this morning! Could have been either, as I'm so deaf I could ...

Today was the first day of competition. It is really nice this year because it is so much smaller, and it feels like 20 years ago when we we...

The WWMG, or Winter World Masters' Games, is a winter sports competition for adults aged 30 and over. Although we no longer compete, we ...

We were up early this morning to get everything ready to move the van. After nearly a week of static camping, this took a bit of doing - sw...

The sun was shining this morning, and I could see mountains I hadn't seen all week! It was very cold until the sun rose, though, whereup...

There was not a lot I wanted to see this morning so did a load of washing and went into Oberstdorf to ťry to buy a new rücksack, successfull...

I knew when I went to bed last night that I was going to have trouble getting up, and indeed I woke with a splitting headache (no, I had had...

The second day of competition started off very wet indeed. We watched our friend who was in the first class of the day on the live stream! ...

Today was the first day of competition. I woke up early, feeling much better, and as I knew the Swan Whisperer wanted to go for a run, woke...