Author: John Martin
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Day 9 – Echternach
Post Views: 52 The day started on the Vianden Castle campsite… in case you’re not keeping up. In the end it was quite a decent site… see below! The plan was then to drive to Enternach, about 30km away (still on the Luxembourg / German border), have a wander around and to do the Gorges…
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Day 8 – Vianden Castle
Post Views: 37 We have two nights in the Vianden Castle Campsite. We’re finding that unless it’s a really limited amount of stuff we want to do in an area then it’s best to stay two nights in a place. That way we have time to do whatever the area has to offer and we…
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Day 7 – Luxembourg South to North
Post Views: 46 Today started with a fantastic breakfast spread laid on by our hosts Tom and Helen. Opted for the non-alcoholic option 😉 Of course we had long chats yesterday, where we learnt the difference between Billige Geschist (cheap shit) vs Gunstig (value). The Germans, of course, appreciate the latter and not the former.…
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Day 6 – Charleroi to Luxembourg
Post Views: 32 So, after a noisy night next to the River Semoy (I was kept awake by the endless campers heading down the gravel track to the loos) we awoke to the dulcet tones of the donkey we had previously thought to be quaint. It was probably 100m from our van, but sounded like…
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Day 5 – Travel Day, Ypres to Charleroi
Post Views: 34 So the day was a perfect travel day. Grey and just sort of thinking about drizzling as we put our stuff away. But before we left the Ypres area we had to do one more cemetery and memorial – Essex Farm, to the north of Ypres. Essex Farm is a smaller site,…