Have allowed 3 weeks to slip by and not done a blog. This is largely because we have been out in the wilds and not staying in hotels with wi fi. We travelled up the Kola peninsula without any bother. The road was difficult and the towns we visited very poor and down trodden. There is very little for the tourist and so we pottered along dropping into little towns and then heading back to the main road. We visited Belomorsk on the coast and also petrozavodsk a larg...

We discovered the town of Vitsebsk north easy of Minsk to be delightful. Old buildings and churches set by the river. We booked into a hostel , leaving the trucks parked by the cathedral as there were mostly pedestrian streets. We were given a 5 bedded room but were still rather amazed to be woken at 1 in the morning as a potential new person was shown the room. She declined on seeing the dog but it still took a while to go back to sleep!!!!! We were quite anxi...

Crossing into Belarus demanded a lot of patience. In fact we were at the border for about 5 and half hours. Mostly we queued with lots of other people and we were searched about 3 times, although not very thoroughly. Arriving in Brest we had a quick lunch and then we only had a short time to visit the world war 2 memorial which is vast and includes a church and lots of other buildings. Sadly we could only stay a short time as we were booked in the national park w...

Leaving Drawsko Pomorski we meandered south using the small roads and passed through the tiny villages seeing the lovely churches and often wooden houses. We stopped in Poznan for the night and marvelled at the vast outdoor centre that included a lake at least a mile long and a huge ski slope. The swimming complex was vast and had several outdoor heated pools and jacuzzis. There were people running and walking and cycling. Canoeists on the water. Jaw dropping !!!...

Setting off from the ferry on Wednesday morning we had a leisurely drive up the coast towards ostend before heading to brugges. We spent a wonderful few hours wandering around here and then back to the motorcaravan park by the bus station. No facilities but it still cost 22 euros!!! We motored across Germany and went to a town south of Dusseldorf where we hoped to meet up with Alex who came to stay with us a few years ago with his son. He still works at the land...