September 2008
Sept 16; Rotterdam, Netherlands

I got up pretty late today, well after 9 am and in a bit of a panic considering Tuah had not got a parking permit. I eventually worked out that you need a special credit card to work the machines unless there is a display that all credit cards accepted. Well there wasn’t any machine in the vicinity having that display.

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Sept 14; Remagen, Germany

It was so cold that it was difficult to get up and out of the warm sleeping bag. However Alison braved it at 7.30 am because she had some washing in the machine which needed drying. By the time she got back our little pest,

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Sept 13; Bad Herrenalb to Remagen, Germany

It was a miserable morning with fine rain as we woke up and decided to quickly put the tent down and head out of the campsite, after a shower. Just as we were leaving at the gate

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Sept 12; Neuenburg to Bad Herrenalb, Germany

It had been raining throughout the night with wind blowing on my side of the tent. It was fortunate that we had bought Adrian a sleeping bag and I didn’t have to share mine with him, and managed to keep myself warm. It was past 9 am before we got out of the tent

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Sept 11; Bodensee to Neuenburg, Germany via Switzerland

It had been raining throughout the night with wind blowing on my side of the tent. It was fortunate that we had bought Adrian a sleeping bag and I didn’t have to share mine with him, and managed to keep myself warm. It was past 9 am before

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Sept 10; Innsbruck to Bodensee, Austria/Germany

Goodbyes were said to our German neighbour who gave us morning and evening coffees, and also to Rainer and Simmone. We had to leave early as the nearside wing mirror had to be replaced as arranged yesterday. When we got to the Nissan dealer

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Sept 9; Innsbruck, Austria

Our German neighbour offered us freshly brewed coffee first thing in the morning when he saw me coming down from the tent. It was a nice gesture and in return we gave them a bottle of apple wine which was given to us. When we were ready we headed for

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Sept 8; Bled to Innsbruck, Slovania/Austria

It was time to move again this morning and we had to bid farewell to new found friends. Adrian found it hard as usual to say goodbye but he would get over it soon enough. We drove to the border town of Jennice to take fuel as it is cheaper in Slovania and stock up on peanuts and some other food stuff.

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Sept 7; Vilanje to Bled, Slovania

We thought we could make an early start as it was going to be a long drive to Innsbruck, via Ljubljana We got off the campsite at Vilanje early enough and made it to Ljubljana by 12 pm. As we came into the city the most prominent building

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Sept 6; Wein to Vilanje, Austria/Slovania
All of us were up early today for some reason or other. After breakfast I had a look at the map and decided to go to Lublinja as we have some time to spare and
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Sept 5; Wein, Austria

Alison got up complaining about the lack of sleep she had been getting with me snoring so loudly and last night some people coming in late and pitched their tent next to ours making lots of noises. I thought our day was going

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Sept. 2; Rathenow to Prague, Germany/Czech Rep.

Adrian and I had a very sound sleep until about 6 am when Alison came up to the tent as she volunteered to sleep in the car. She was freezing the poor woman and

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September 1; Berlin to Rathenow, Germany

I got up at 6 am to do some work on the journal and had a good breakfast when Alison woke up to make some fried bread. I thought that I would get the tent down first before having a shower. As I started winding the tent down,

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