Journey: Cologne (0 miles) Woke up with Ernest on my head…he has no concept of personal space 😂Took the pups for a mad run around and some handstands at Rhinepark – they much prefer this to lead walking and it really tires them out (Jasper will lie down bored in most towns if we stop to …
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Day 11 – Warning gets hangry if not fed
Journey: Cochen – Koblenz – Cologne (110 miles) I’m going to provide an optional grumpy bit of reading at the end which you can choose to ignore if you prefer to believe everything is 100% hunky dory all the time in our van 😂 Up early we walked the pups and fueled by coffee walked up …
Day 10 – Flowers, cake, muddy treks and fairy tale castles
Journey: Trier – Bernkastel Kues – Zell – Cochen (longer scenic route following Moselle River) A stranger gave me a ‘flower’ in the supermarket bread aisle…ok so it was a bit of grass given by an eccentric old man but it still counts as a lovely way to start a day 😊 Having been somewhat discouraged …
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Day 9 – I was overdue a calamity
Journey: 0 miles, still in Trier carpark Today has been one of those days… It started so well with a lovely walk around the various Roman ruins in Trier, cafe pastries, handstands in the park… and then just before lunch poor Jasper lay down 100 meters from the motorhome and refused to budge, he was …
Day 8 – Snails, Ticks and Ice Cream
Journey: Luxembourg City – Echternach – Vianden – Trier (Germany) Not the best start to the day, we had done the van chores, walked the pups through forest to the supermarket and once home realised Jasper was crawling in ticks and a few had got onto Ernest (Mabel had rolled in liquid poo and been …
Survived Week 1 – Lessons Learnt
It’s been a week, but it feels like so much longer. We have settled so quickly into new routines and life on the road. A few things we have realised along the way so far: *There is more to lunch than a cheese sandwich but we have yet to discover what…need to vary our diet …
Day 7 – Three countries in one day!
Journey: Bouillon (Belgium) – Sedan (France) – Luxembourg City (70 miles) Is it obvious we never made a plan? Luxembourg was never mentioned and yet once we realised how close we were it seemed a shame not to go 😂 It means today the pups and us have walked in three different countries! Surprisingly we have …
Day 6 – To infinity and beyond
Journey: Dinant – Euro Space Centre – Bouillon (49 miles) Ernest was well up for a lazy Sunday and was the last out of bed. Having done no exercise other than walking I’d been itching to do some acro and put a call out on Acro Belgium for a possible practice buddy. I was thus …
Day 5 – Jasper goes on strike and breathtaking end
Journey: Ypres – Tournai – Planes des L’Escaut Nature Reserve – Mons – Dinant (126 miles) A somewhat frustrating day with a beautiful end. Everyone should visit Dinant, it is simply stunning! Having stocked up on pastries we drove to Tournai. It’s a strange town – magnificent cathedral and obviously in the process of serious …
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Day 4 – No matter the weather imagine walking in golden shoes
Journey: Bruges – Ghent – Ypres (81 miles) A quick peak out the van blind revealed a grey and overcast day, but undeterred we had been recommended a lovely loop walk to see the Bruges windmills and off we went. I loved that even the fence around one had been laced, and I spied a …
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