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26 June 2018
So, we both slept for a pretty long time as we didn’t set the alarm for once – in fact Martina almost got a full 12 hours sleep…Goes to show we were fairly tired! On a serious note though, it isn’t simply a physical tiredness issue either, there’s continually a mental process of researching where […]
21 June 2018
As with the other countries we have visited we have decided to do a round-up of our observations in Poland – it’s likely that this will be a common theme for our last blog post for each country. We’ve spent just over three weeks in Poland, the longest time in a country so far. The […]
17 June 2018
Our departure from Kraków and navigating out of town was much smoother than our arrival and after about half an hour we were on the outskirts. We were, however, on the road to Auchwitz, which when we’d been in the bus the day before had decided was not the route we should take as it […]
10 June 2018
So, the dodgy geezers didn’t appear overnight. However a tractor passed our tent at about 5:30am – not once, but three times- just to make sure that we were awake! It’s amazing, we couldn’t imagine that anyone would come past us as we were 100m up a forest track, out of sight of the road […]
6 June 2018
We have noticed that when we go from one country to another we feel a definite a sense of apprehension. In a very short time we have grown accustomed to the country we are in and we feel at ease with most of its nuances. Then when we cross a border or take a ferry […]
31 May 2018
Our second Stockholm AirBnB was not as nice as the first, but to be fair it was very cheap. We had a room in a flat on the ground floor of a low rise block and the use of a shared kitchen and bathroom. It was all functional, but rather lacked the finesse of the […]