My second week cycling in Germany was the picture postcard old castles overlooking the river. South from Cologne I first came to Bonn where the UNESCO world heritage section starts, on to Remagen, Bad Breisig, Koblenz, St Goar, Ingelheim am Rhein, Mainz, Oppenheim, Gernsheim and to Hamm. On the opposite side of the river was […]
These photos were off my first week in Germany after I crossed the border at Millingen aan de Rijn. I passed through the old Roman town of Xanten, then on to Rheinberg, Duisberg, Neuss (over the river from Dusseldorf), Dormagen, Leverkusen before arriving in Cologne. I stayed in Cologne with a friend (Thomas and his wife Gaby) […]
There is a mountain in my head that I constructed sometime ago to frame my philosophy on life. I created it when I wanted to explain to a like-minded friend about how I was feeling after an extended period of travel. There are two parallel worlds that are separated by a mountain. One world is a […]
A snap shot of the journey from Watford to Harwich by bicycle, the first week of my grand cycling plans.
Instead of camping wild with the bears in Plitvice National Park, Shane and I decided it would be a better idea to try hitchhiking to the nearest campsite which we didn’t think was that far away. It took forever to get a lift but we finally did, with. The chap had no room in his boot due to […]
Tighnabruaich on the west coast of Scotland is one of those beautiful little villages surrounded by the beautiful rolling hills of lowland Scotland. It would be one of my favourite places but for the weather……but when the sun is shining there aren’t many places I’d rather be. A friend of my brother had a house […]
Slovenia vies for the best name of a capital in Europe, Ljubljana, pronounce that if you’ve never heard it before! I was only there for a few days in 2011 but managed to explore the centre of Ljubljana a fair bit. I was with my Aussie friend Shane whom I had got to know well whilst […]