We awoke quite refreshed after a cracking sleep made possible with a fan in the room. Glorious, glorious cool air blasting on us throughout the night. They even provided ear plugs so we could sleep through the street noise. Everything you need to sleep when the air is lava and Switzerland are playing a World [...]
I'm in a lot of travel groups on Facebook and every now and then someone posts in a panic because they accidentally booked the wrong dates for their flights and I was always like, ha, idiot, how the fuck do you even do that? So it turns out one way of doing it is faffing [...]
Sleeping with the windows wide open to try and make sleeping in a furnace a little bit possible meant we were serenaded by the church bells next door throughout the night. Also it turns out that 5am is particularly exuberantly celebrated in Liechtenstein. Something to do with a centuries old custom calling farmers to work, [...]
We spent three nights in the 6th smallest country in the world. We flew into Zürich on account of Liechtenstein having exactly fuck all airports, caught a train to the border then bussed into the country and headed straight for the Hofkellerei des Fürsten von Liechtenstein (the winery of the Prince of Liechtenstein) to apply [...]
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 Königswinter 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 Thing™ 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 wasn’t too keen on the idea of Christmas markets, I’ll be honest. Once I’ve 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 [...]
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