• Lucy Wignall
  • Chris Brace
  • Lucy Wignall
  • Chris Brace

European Van Trip 2023

Et 178-dagers eventyr av Lucy & Chris Les mer
  • Reisens start
    28. februar 2023
  • Dover

    1. mars 2023, England ⋅ ☁️ 6 °C

    Realised this was the 13th different park Lennon has been to this year, so now am aiming to get to as many as possible while we are travelling

    Waiting here for our early morning ferry. Later on Lennon took it upon himself to get the brush, sweep up, wipe himself and the over and hang up the cloth 🤣
    Very helpful indeed 😂
    Les mer

  • Belgium

    2. mars 2023, Belgia ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C

    Can't seem to upload any videos...

    We slept in Belgium... As you will see from our boring photos we are just ploughing through at the moment to get the the mountains before the snow disappears for ski seasonLes mer

  • Germany

    3. mars 2023, Tyskland

    We parked up in a sleepy, seemingly pensioners only town 😂
    The building we camped outside was a shut pub, which looked satisfyingly German.

    Feel very bright, young and noisy here and everyone who sees us stares 😂 but it's peaceful and great for Lennon to be the only child below the age of 32 in town, because he has private use of the multiple playgrounds there are here in this park without a single child in his way!

    Hopefully we make it out of here alive, and aren't taken for our youth power, so the residents can live another few weeks 😬
    Les mer

  • Horsel

    5. mars 2023, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 2 °C

    Quick stop for a play and a wander between driving. Seems like on Sundays people stay silently in bed round here 😂 everywhere we go is a ghost town. But nice to see a small little German town that wasn't touristy at all.

    It was actually snowing for the majority of the time, very lightly... Its what the hair picture is haha tiny snowflakes in my hair

    We found huge vats of milk for people we assume who must collect it from there 😂 bit annoying actually as we have been out of milk for 2 days and all the shops are closed today for Sunday 😭 so I really wish I could have made a coffee with a bit of it 😂
    Les mer

  • Schwarzenberg

    5. mars 2023, Tyskland ⋅ ☁️ 1 °C

    We planned to get to the ski town in Czech today but hadn't thought about all shops being closed, so we are parked very close to the German border, so as to hit a Lidl before we leave first thing 😂

    We drove up into the snow! Empty water tank and extra socks time 🥶
    Les mer

  • 'Last' Day of Driving

    6. mars 2023, Tyskland

    When I went into the supermarket it was not snowing, when I came out I took video 2 😍

    This is our last day of rushing to be somewhere. From here on out we are just taking each day as it comes, which is a very nice, very welcome change after 3 years nearly of rushing for one deadline or another country to country brexit/covid/schengen etcLes mer

  • Walking in the snow

    6. mars 2023, Tsjekkisk Republikk ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C

    After being at the top of the mountain in the atmospheric snowstorms, we returned part way down to the hub of the ski area, and the sky cleared for the last hour of daylight

    After a good nosy around in preparation for tomorrow (no one here speaks any English, and all signs are only in Czech and German, no English. So it is a confusing and slow process working out what to do as 2 novices who will be alone also, while the other is with Lennon, who sadly isn't able to ski as the boots only go as small as 8's 😭) we then had a wander through the forest where Lennon learned he can run and jump face first into snow without being hurt 😂 and I learned skiers pop up absolutely everywhere at this altitude 😂Les mer

  • Klinivec Ski Resort

    7. mars 2023, Tsjekkisk Republikk ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C

    Not much time to take photos when your hurtling down a mountain trying not to trip and die.

    Brace snowboarded all morning and I went skiing all afternoon.

    Lennon stayed cosy in bed for a lot of the day 🤣 he loves 'resting' now, very vocally... He also went for some walks in the snow, and in big news...

    He's been promoted to the actual table. Which he was very pleased with, and went surprisingly well.
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  • Prague Butterfly House

    13. mars 2023, Tsjekkisk Republikk ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    I hate butterflies and being too hot 😂 so this wasn't the best activity for me but as you can see Lennon loved it ❤️

    The glass case showing all the different stages of life cycle was fascinating to look at though hard to get clear photosLes mer

  • Vienna

    20. mars 2023, Østerrike ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

    Our second walking tour of a capital city this trip (we did one in Prague too)

    I struggled to hear him, so I can't relay the information 😂 but Vienna is beautiful and a cool thing about it is it has the most green space in a city in the world by far and people are really happy here, the government keeps a lot of rental accommodation in the city and rent it out at extremely low prices to keep and encourage a diverse population and to broaden the mix of cultures and new arrivals. Which also makes it the lowest crime rate in a capital city tooLes mer