We’ve left the incredible alps and had a few days driving through the countryside and visiting some small cities. Regensburg was our first stop, I was expecting a lot as it’s said to have Germany’s only totally intact medieval centre. Don’t get me wrong, it was lovely to stroll around and picturesque but not a…
Tag: Roadtrip
An interesting trip to the mechanics
So as I said in the last post, Pablo’s exhaust had totally cracked due to some industrial rubber band snapping and causing too much pressure on the already rusty exhaust pipe. We killed a day at a small lake near St.Gilgen, this area of Austria – Salzkammergut is their version of the Lake District and…
Pablo the super-van
So we’ve been on the road now for 3 weeks and Pablo’s been an absolute trooper, we were both a little worried with her problems before we left the UK but so far so good, and we’ve taken her up some tough roads through the alps. Sleeping and living wise I think we’ve designed her…
The German and Austrian borders
While in the Black Forest we stopped off at Schiltach, it’s said to be one of the prettiest villages in the area and it certainly lived up to it. We arrived early in the morning so it was very peaceful and hardly a sole around, so we took our time, slowly wandering up and down…
Project Pablo
After our 6 months in Scotland we returned home with the plan to buy a campervan or van and do a 1 year road trip around Europe. It took us one week to find our Nissan Vanette Cargo, a 1999 diesel and cost us £750 after bartering it down from £900. Compared to everything else…
Our 6 month trip in Bonnie Scotland.
We’ve just arrived back home in sunny Sussex after 6 windy winter months in Scotland. We never really planned that we would go to Scotland, it just sort of happened… After trying out volunteering work for our first time in September I became a tad addicted to browsing the web for other places to volunteer,…
