Every day when I’m travelling I see something cool. Sometimes it’s just the colour of the sky or the crispness of the snow, other days it’s a momument, a building or archeological remains.
Up at seven after a good night's sleep, under just the sheet and with our head at the foot end to catch more air circulation. I'm not sure if any of it made a difference, but can't have hurt. The bug bites were pretty itchy though.. We put on our masks to go down for… Continue reading A bit of an effort
Quite warm in the room, there's a fan but even so I take the blanket out of the sheet and use the sheet to sleep under. Alarm at seven, we put on our decent clothes and a mouth mask to go to breakfast downstairs. It's strange.. you can take the mouth mask off only when… Continue reading Deer!
Alarm at seven, we slept okay, not too hot in the room fortunately. We go down to the breakfast room, they have just switched back to the classic buffet system, but ask that you follow a one way tour throughout the area to avoid close contact with others, though there is no requirement to wear… Continue reading Sunny hills
Today is Sunday and tonight we are sleeping in Beckum. Up at seven, the usual weekend breakfast and afterwards we can start packing. We had a family BBQ in our patio yesterday, fortunately everybody helped clean up and the state of the house is not so bad, but we will have to tidy a bit,… Continue reading the first schnitzel
Our first holiday of the year is only a few days away! After our winter holiday in Gerardmer in December 2019 we had plans to take a long week with family in the spring, but these of course got cancelled due to corona. We planned to take a week off and picked the end of… Continue reading Preparation!
Up at 8, breakfast as usual, Arne searches for the name of the birds we saw yesterday on the higher snowy slopes, turns out they were bullfinches. They were too quick to photograph, but we remember the distinct coloration. Some doubt about what to do today.. we could go to one of the official winter… Continue reading lots of trees
Alarm at 7, but we snooze until 8: it's raining and we're not in a hurry to get out there. Breakfast with champagne - the last of the bottle we opened two days ago - and then the usual procedure to start the hiking day. We decide to do one of the official winter hikes… Continue reading some snow after all
I wake up thinking it must be time to wake up, though there was no alarm yet. Turns out I turned it off yesterday, but indeed it is exactly 7 am. The morning proceeds the same as yesterday: healthy breakfast, lunch prep and pack the two backpacks. Today we even remember to take the thermos… Continue reading a bit of unexpected danger
Up at seven, it's still dark but we can tell it's no longer raining. The weather is supposed to be mild and dry, not very promising for snow.. One of the reasons we took a studio this year is to have better food. Not better as in more tasty, but as in healthy and in… Continue reading green!
we have a five day holiday planned in the Vosges mountains in France and as usual it starts with lots of packing. For only the second time ever we've rented a studio instead of booking a hotel room, so the packing requires a bit more thought than usual. I did prepare and make a few… Continue reading to the Vosges
Today is our last day in Rome.. Up at six thirty, packed/checked out and walking before eight. We don't have a particular goal in mind, but the weather is beautiful so we'll probably spend most of the morning outside. The only time constraint is our shuttle to the airport at two pm. We walk past… Continue reading a last walk around Rome
Since I had posted my journal of yesterday before we went out for dinner, this is an extra short piece about the delicious food. Normally I don't make such a fuss and stick with just a few adjectives, but this was unusual enough to merit a bit more space. It was only a fifteen minute… Continue reading extra: organic/vegetarian
Oops, forgot to put an alarm. Even so, we're up at half past seven and out just after eight. We take a general aim east and start walking, keeping an eye out for a good spot for breakfast. It's cloudy, but not actually raining, though most people have rain jackets on or carry umbrella's. It's… Continue reading Popolo, Barberini & Rinascenze
For the first time this holiday we've actually put a wake up alarm and since we managed to stay up until nine pm yesterday, we're ready to roll around seven am. The usual breakfast and a shuttle pick-up at eight thirty to get to the Colosseum, where we meet Lucy, an architect turned guide, who… Continue reading old & new
We have only one goal today: visit some fashion stores and look at Italian fashion and shoes. We set off around eight towards the center of town and have a vague plan to have breakfast on the way. It looks like there is some kind of running competition going on somewhere, parts of the road… Continue reading shops & Diocletian Baths
Only one task today: get through the giant Vatican museums. We have bought our ticket more than a month ago and are allowed ingress at 10.30, so plenty of time. We wake up early, not surprising since mom fell asleep around eight pm yesterday and I about an hour later. We have breakfast at seven… Continue reading Musei Vaticani
I haven't quite figured out yet what the best blog format is for a city trip, I'm thinking that just a list of stuff we've visited might get boring, but on the other hand I want to be able to read in ten years time what we've done, so I guess there's no way around… Continue reading around Piazza Navona
My mom and I are finally visiting Rome! My husband visited it in high school, so did one of my sisters, but for my mom and I it just didn't happen before. So now we've simply decided to make a city trip out of it to see the famous roman buildings, visit the Vatican city… Continue reading to Rome
We followed the northern and western loop of the 100 Schlösser Route by bike (non-electric), taking our own luggage from hotel to hotel. Usually we had a picnic for lunch and a hot meal in the evening, in the hotel restaurant or nearby. The final statistics : Total distance: 625 kmDuration: 7.5 cycling days and… Continue reading summary
Only one more thing to do: cycle back to Münster, where we left our car more than eight days ago. First though I got to fix my front wheel, I noticed yesterday evening that it seemed wobbly and it looks like it's not properly fastened onto the wheel fork anymore. No problem as usual, just… Continue reading last day
A light breakfast and off we go around nine as usual. The sky is clear and it's pretty cold in the shadow, my odometer says it's 11° Celcius. Not quite cold enough for gloves, but I'm happy with the extra merino wool layer - I'm up to four layers and a scarf now. We're still… Continue reading more hilly than expected
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