3. Along the Elbe
Germany has some big rivers which are very popular with cyclists. We’ve cycled the Rhine and parts of the Mosel but the Elbe is much less popular and more remote so we decided to try that next. It’s another huge river with commercial traffic even though we didn’t see any, but it has cycle paths adjacent to it. It’s flat, picturesque and quiet. The river meanders like a river should, winding back and forth untamed by humans and has beaches and mud flats. For most of it you are entirely on your own, with no other cyclists and just the noise of your tyres on the path and...
Read More2. The Devils Day
Leaving our second home in Naarden we took a short cycle back to the hotel where we’d recently spent our anniversary at Amersfoort, successfully missing the thunderstorms until we could actually see the hotel across the road and getting drenched in the 300m before we could get to it. The rain now is tropical not just showers, great deluges for 15 minutes then gone. Who needs Thailand, but on the bright side we were offered a free glass of bubbly on arrival – should have been cocoa – and postponed that until we had got changed and dry and sat by the fire to enjoy it....
Read More1. A Catalogue of Catastrophes
It’s not often Ten Tonne Taffy gets a mentioned in dispatches these days, but lately she’s had a rough time, doing nothing but being our home. Firstly, I got up one night to go to the loo, one of the joys of getting older, and smelt that plasticky electric burning smell. I switched off the power and went back to bed after checking nothing was on fire and the next day took the fuse board cover off and found that the immersion wire had burned completely through and melted some other wires and fuses. A close call! A close call… It turns out that the screw for that wire...
Read MoreAnniversary Waltz – a mini tour.
We visit a lot of hotels so get to use all sorts of different showers, from buckets to multi jet rainfall showers. One thing most have in common is the lengths they go to to make it hard to read the shower controls by making the temperature and shower flow knobs chrome and the instructions for want of a better description ‘off chrome’ which make reading it, without your glasses in a steamy room almost impossible so with unbridled joy and with a deepening sense of ‘oh you’re really getting old now, getting excited about this sort of thing’ we found our first...
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