Cologne has got an interesting beer culture which I didn't know about until after I'd thrown money at the mighty Ryanair for the privilege of cramming myself into one of their fine pressurised metal tubes for just over an hour. If I'd have known about I'd have come sooner! Let's talk about the beer because [...]
Schloss Drachenburg is an easy train ride from Cologne so it'd be rude not to check it out. Well, I say a train ride, you get off at Kรถnigswinter then it's up to you whether your wallet or your calf muscles take the hit for the last little bit up to the castle. There's a [...]
I had a bit of time off work at the same time as a mate, Lydi, was back in Europe after a long absence which makes it sound like she was in prison. She wasn't, she was overseas. So I thought, "Why not fuck off to Germany for a bit for a catch up?" Why [...]
BMW Museum & BMW Welt Neither of us are particularly into cars but visiting the BMW Museum is kind of The Done Thingโข so we duly took the U-Bahn up to Olympiazentrum to put lots of vehicles into our eyeholes. BMW Welt is just kind of a showroom and is free to enter. If you [...]
Tarrant had had her little heart set on visiting some actual, proper German Christmas markets for bloody ages, so this year off we fucked to Munich in order to consume our body weight in Bratwurst. I wasnโt too keen on the idea of Christmas markets, Iโll be honest. Once Iโve shovelled a phallic-shaped dead pig [...]
What better way to spend the last morning of our honeymoon than walking up about 1300 steps to a ruin? Tarrant had opinions about pretty much every aspect of this endeavour as did my leg muscles after yesterday's impromptu climb up a bell tower. We got up early to start climbing at 8am to beat [...]
I love public buses. No, wait, that's a complete lie. I love public buses in countries that aren't the UK. I get a lot of joy out of using public transport whilst travelling but if I've got to do it back home I find it overpriced and unreliable. Y'know, all those things I don't give [...]
We had a bit of time to kill this morning on account of the fact the car didn't need to be back until 2pm. We'd planned to drive the utterly batshit Serpentine road into Kotor but we'd done that the previous day to beat the weather and fuck me, I am so glad we did. [...]
I like to get up early on holiday to go and Do The Things. It took a while for Tarrant to get used to this but, after some initial protesting in the early days of our relationship, I brought her round to it. A little gentle coffee-related coaxing and we're generally on our way before [...]
The original plan was to go to Pluลพine via the northern section of the scenic Durmitor Ring drive and leave via the southern section, but I did a bit of a Google on this road and decided I did not have the necessary nerves for this endeavour. People in forums who described themselves as confident [...]
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