Four (or Six, depending on who you ask) Countries! We’ve pretty much closed out our first Real Day[tm] of travels. This beautiful Sunday morning we left Almere NL at 9:19am, a car packed full of goodies (food and otherwise), and we were destined for Doncaster UK. The first part of the trip was to Calais FR. Getting there was okay except for a weird 45min complete stand-still near Jabbeke BE. There were construction works on the road there, and I think maybe a car had broken down on the one-lane passthrough, so folks had to manouvre around it, or push the car suitably far into the shoulder for the other traffic to pass.Read more...
Day One - Almere NL, prep work On Friday June 7th the road trip started, but Paul was unaware. I drove from my house in Zurich Switzerland to the picturesque town of Tengen Germany where I have a weekend retreat camping site and a happy RV unit full of RC units to play with. At around 9:15pm I left and at some 10:15pm I arrived at a rather calm campingsite.Read more...
It has begun! It’s Friday June 7th and about 10:30pm. I just made my way from Bruttisellen, Switzerland to the beautiful and entirely unknown village of Tengen, Southern Germany. In fact it’s so far south that I still have 4 bars of Swisscom 3G reception, as the border is probably about 550 meters from where I am sitting.
I decided to start the journey today so that I can avoid the rather horrible traffic situation around Zurich (yes, also on Saturdays), and make good time to get to Almere, The Netherlands, by mid day when the sun is still warm and bright.Read more...
The idea for Ireland - Arrive in Belfast on June 13. Leave Dublin on June 18th.
Marker A: Belfast Marker B: Giant’s Causeway Marker C: Achill Marker D: Cliffs of Moher (and the Aran Islands) Marker E: Killarney Marker F: Blarney Castle (and kiss the Stone) Marker G: Newgrange Marker H: Dublin Posted by Pim van Pelt at 7:23 AMRead more...