Somehow we ended up in Dunkirk a day too early for our ferry and found ourselves a little but stuck for something to do on our last day. I had been banging on for the last week about going to a book market in Lille (initially the idea was rejected on the grounds that it was too far); Dave finally caved and we went to Lille. Turns out the book market is closed on Mondays which was hugely disappointing for me, whilst Dave thought it was hillarious and probably was...

This place has a museum about chips and a museum about chocolate. What more cam you ask for! It also has a museum about lamps but I couldn't persuade Dave to go (even though they might just have had a lamp designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany). The chip museum was at first a little disappointing due to a lack of samples. Then we read that Belgians fry their chips in a mixure of beef and horse fat and I was grateful; my emotions then turned to relief at the lack of s...

After leaving our friends in Germany we arrived in Luxembourg feeling a little low. Although it had stopped snowing we had to use snow chains to get into a camping place; Dave was quite happy about this as he is determined to use every item packed (hopefully this won't go as far as the fire extigusiher, flourecent vests and warning triangle!). The campsite was probably the strangest campsite we had stumbled on. At first we thought we had hit the jackpot as the c...

The journey to Reutlingen was hair raising to say the least; Dave wasn't driving but the roads were covered with snow and it came down continuously throughout the journey. Once we arrived we had four days with our wonderful German friends. From the moment we arrived they made us feel completly at home and even managed to feed two vegetarians! It was amazing to see everyone and we had an action packed few days. The weather made no difference to our plans and in ...

We arrived in Munich in the snow, quite relieved to find the campsite ony about 1km from the motorway In the treacherous conditions. Had a minor scare on the way thinking our brakes had gone again but turned out to be the anti-lock kicking in! We spent an afternoon shopping in the city centre which felt really Christmassy in the snow with the Xmas Market and all the decorations. In the evening we met up with a friend of mine Andi and had a brilliant time catchi...