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Alfriston Feb 24
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- Feb 19, 2024, 12:00 PM
- ☁️ 10 °C
- Altitude: 46 ft
- England Wealden District Alfriston 50.80654, 0.15647750°48’24” N 0°9’23” E
Day 2
Day 2 - Afternoon
February 19 in England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Chilling in pub in Beachy Head and walk in Burling Gap
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Alfriston Feb 24
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- Feb 19, 2024, 10:00 AM
- ☁️ 10 °C
- Altitude: 46 ft
- England Wealden District Alfriston 50.806547, 0.15647250°48’24” N 0°9’23” E
Day 2
Day 2 am - Eastbourne
February 19 in England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Walked along beach and pier
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Alfriston Feb 24
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- Feb 18, 2024, 5:55 PM
- 🌙 12 °C
- Altitude: 49 ft
- England Wealden District Alfriston 50.807661, 0.15648650°48’28” N 0°9’23” E
Day 1
Sheffield House Gardens & Wingrove House
February 18 in England ⋅ 🌙 12 °C
Beautiful drive in glorious sunshine through the South Downs National park to Alfriston, stopping off at National Trust Sheffield Gdns
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Another european adventure
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- Jun 27, 2023
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 210 ft
- France Hauts-de-France Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt 50.1484, 3.11973850°8’54” N 3°7’11” E
Day 18
All adventures must end
June 27, 2023 in France ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
We drove for 3 hours to our next campsite, mostly through beautiful fields of gold and green especially on the 60mile stretch on D994 road.
The campsite was mostly full of Brits as its a convenient 2.5 hours away from Calais.
We had another bbq, we have rather enjoyed bbq..ing on this trip.
Kerryn beat me 3-0 in backgammon but i got my own back in the table tennis 4-0.

Overall a fantastic adventure through snow capped mountains, lakes, forests, green and gold fields, waterfalls, waterway towns with interest and flare, boasting interesting buildings and delicious wines - what more could one ask for?

Thank you Orca for being a brave soldier and limping across Europe with a broken anti-roll bar.
Despite all the mishaps, (forgetting our stuff in previous campsite), incidents (bike rack, roof clip, that Mr. K. Practical was luckily able to fix) and the wrong turns on the road, we had a lot of fun together - loved it all xxRead more
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Another european adventure
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- Jun 26, 2023
- ⛅ 23 °C
- Altitude: 161 ft
- France Hauts-de-France Villeneuve-sur-Aisne Guignicourt 49.431812, 3.96912249°25’55” N 3°58’9” E
Day 17
Camping on River Mosselle
June 26, 2023 in France ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Since leaving Titisee, we haven't found a campsite where we've wanted to stay longer than a day..we are thinking we should probably head back nearer to home now rather than in 4 days time as originally planned.

We found a niceish campsite on the river Moselle.
We decided to go for a short bike ride along the river, which turned into a long bike ride after i mentioned to Kerryn there was supermarket not too far away and maybe we could pick up some burgers for a bbq..the supermarket turned out to be lot further so we ended cycling 20miles and came back without burgers!
However, it was a great cycle pathway all along the river.

Camping Villey de Sec in Meurthe-et-Mosselle in Grand Est.Read more
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Another european adventure
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- Jun 25, 2023, 12:30 PM
- ☀️ 27 °C
- Altitude: 525 ft
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Baden-Baden Trinkhalle Baden-Baden 48.761667, 8.23833348°45’42” N 8°14’18” E
Day 16
Baden Baden
June 25, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
What a lovely surprise, didn't know what to expect but the greenery, architecture, cafes and the vibrant ambience was rather nice, thank you Baden Baden, maybe next time we'll enjoy you for longer than the 2 hours we spent passing through to our next campsite location.
Camping Plage du Staedly was jam packed with families enjoying the lakeside beach on a Sunday as it turns out that the resort is also used by visitors.
Toilets were rubbish so we decided not to stay another night..however i did have the best vegetarian pizza.
We did a short cycle ride along the River Rhine, bit of a challenge to cycle the steep bank to get to it, Kerryn managed the very steep incline without falling but i wasn't as successful much to his amusement.Read more
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Another european adventure
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- Jun 24, 2023
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 682 ft
- France Grand-Est Villey-le-Sec 48.652629, 5.99327248°39’9” N 5°59’36” E
Day 15
Triberg Waterfalls, Largest Cuckoo clock
June 24, 2023 in France ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
We were so so sad to leave Titisee Lake, hope to come back again one day.
On the road again, next stop Triberg, known for it's cuckoo clocks and for being home to largest cuckoo clock in the world..we decided to stop off to see the cuckoo emerge as it does every half hour, bit underwhelming.
Triberg Waterfalls were enjoyable but steep climb of structured bridges and walkways.
We hadn't managed to find a campsite for the night and it was getting bit late. After ringing around, we managed to get one an hours drive away; it has been our least favourite of all places we stayed. Europa Camping Sand near Willstatt.Read more
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- Jun 22, 2023, 4:45 PM
- ☁️ 24 °C
- Altitude: 2,805 ft
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Lenzkirch Titisee 47.9, 8.15166747°54’0” N 8°9’6” E
Day 13
Titisee Lake & Hinterzartin Ski
June 22, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
So tranquil camping by the lake though we got caught in storm while we were in the campsite bar, our neighbour took our awning down for us as the strings had broken away in the strong winds and it was flapping furiously.
Titisee is a picture perfect little town, nice restaurants, boats for hire and usual tourist shops, I am a bit concerned with the level of interest Kerryn is showing in Cuckoo clocks; it definitely won't go with the decor of Hindlee, but hopefully the price of them will disuade him.

We cycled around the lake and through beautiful forest to another lovely town called Hinterzarten where they had Ski jump slopes.. great afternoon out..even though I nearly lost my precious prescription sunglasses, Kerryn managed to spot them as we cycled back retracing our steps.Read more
Traveler Wouldn’t be an adventure without getting caught in a good storm
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- Jun 22, 2023, 10:35 AM
- ☁️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 938 ft
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Freiburg Schwabentor 47.993333, 7.85333347°59’36” N 7°51’12” E
Day 13
Freiberg
June 22, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Cycle friendly historical old town. Interesting cathedral, it somehow survived the allied bombings in WW2 when much else didn't.

Our camp site was 8 min cycle ride into old town. Really small pitches, large camper next to us encroached into our space leaving us with even less space.

There was a great, lively open air bar next to campsite where I enjoyed a rather large glass of white wine for only €3.80Read more
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- Jun 20, 2023, 11:15 AM
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 5,627 ft
- Switzerland Bern Lauterbrunnen Mürren Mürrenbachfall 46.556338, 7.887646°33’23” N 7°53’15” E
Day 11
Paragliding & evening bike ride
June 20, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Paragliding was fun and lot easier than i thought, though did feel bit queezy when pilot did some rollercoaster moves.
Andres and Bruno (our pilots) were really friendly, explaining everything, Kerryn even got to fly his by controlling the handles..damn it Bruno, i wanted to do that too ;)
It felt so serene, still and quiet up there.

From our campsite, we joined the pathway that allowed us to cycle along the fast flowing emerald river, between snow capped mountains and lush green fields with interesting wooden chalets that all had red geraniums on their balconies and stores full of wood for the winter. It was enjoyable and flat cycling along a smooth road weaving in and out of forest and stopping to admire the many waterfalls. On the way back, we cycled along the main but fairly quiet road, we must have free-cycled for at least 5 miles without having to touch the padels, wind in hair and in awe of beauty all around.Read more
Traveler Paragliding flight from Mürren Took the cable car up to Grütschalp then train to Mürren 10 minute walk to meet the pilots then 10 minute hike up the hill to take-off point!
6/21/23Reply
Traveler This looked like a fun day out 🪁
6/23/23Reply
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