Czech Republic – Skywalk & Trosky Castle

It's bloody cold in the Czech Republic! Not sure what's happened but the temperature has dropped around 15 degrees so I'm back to wearing jumpers, jackets and scarves - but it hasn't stopped us exploring. We started our trip by looking for a garage to buy the vignette (road tax) so we could travel on …

Auschwitz & Birkenau

I don't know if 'looking forward' is the right phrase to use here but we'd been set on the idea of visiting Auschwitz & Birnkenau while in Poland, I think it's something you have to do while you're here, even if it is an uncomfortable experience. I don't really have much to say, I'm struggling …

Kraków.

I may be looking back at the day through rosé 😉 tinted glasses but we had such a lovely time in Krakow - which is strange ‘cos normally we don’t hang around in cities. We get in, get photos and get out - not this time. We are stopping at the city camping about 4km …

Gdansk – the worlds busiest city.

One of the things we’ve discovered while travelling Europe is that if you visit a city on a Sunday it’s normally much quieter and you can easily find some free parking - only one of these was true of our visit to Gdansk. We rocked up after a big drive through a bunch of roadworks …

Poland – Wolfs Lair & Malbork

We’ve made it to Poland, now let’s just hope we make it out of the other side - people were right, the driving here is beyond nuts. I don’t know what they are teaching learner drivers out here but I imagine it’s something along the lines of ‘under no circumstances should you ever spend longer …

Lithuanian lake days – Trakai.

What a scorcher of a day! We certainly left Lithuania on a good note, infact we had one of our best days so far (not including Norway, Liam won't have Norway bunched with other countries - he holds it in very high regard). Woke up to blue skies at Vilnius City Camp so had high …

Vilnius – Lithuania

Another day, another country. Wednesday was a day of driving, it was over 200 miles from Liepaja where we spent the night at another Statoil garage (free wifi, morning coffee and a bit of security - not sure if we would get away with it if our van wasn’t so small but that just another …

Cape Kolka – Latvia

After a day in the city we decided to head north west and visit Cape Kolka, the point where 2 seas meet - we love these spots, remember Skägen in Denmark? Well, it was a little bit sunnier than when we were in Denmark so thankfully raincoats weren’t necessary this time.   We drove up …

Riga – Latvia

Just a brief visit to Estonia, we’ve crossed yet another border and now we’re in Latvia! We left Pärnu this morning after a cosy night in the carpark and headed for Gauja National Park which turned out to be a bit of a dud but only because we hadn’t done our research and we had …

An Estonian Summer Holiday

We woke up from our (not so scenic) free camp at a service station on Sunday the 31st of July and headed for the beach town of Pärnu - apparently the place to be for holidaying Estonians. - to catch some sunshine (and also a few showers but we can’t have it all) We parked …