We arrived in Wolfsburg, Germany after lunch on Tuesday 4 June. As we were driving through town to the caravan park, I noticed there were a lot more VW's driving around than any other car and at one stage we had 11 in a row drive past us. Not surprising considering 40% of the town works at the VW factory. The caravan park was situated beside a lake and not far from the AutoStadt (the VW complex). Camped just down from us were two Swiss guys with 2 fully rest...

Belgium and The Netherlands: 31st of May we arrived in Calais, France and had to adjust to driving on the right side of the road again. Loche took to it pretty easily with no incidences so far. From Calais we drove up to Ghent, Belgium. We stopped at a caravan park about 20 minutes outside of Ghent. That afternoon, Loche and Cara went for a walk to the nearby village and found a lovely lake with eateries and pubs along the shore…so of course the logical t...

18th May 2013 When we were coming towards the end of our trip last year (around September 2012), we decided we would store the car and caravan in England and come back over to see the Eastern European countries. We wanted to do this before Cara goes to school in 2014, because from then on we will be limited to school holidays. While we were back in Australia, Loche worked fly-in fly-out doing very long hours. He finished his contract at the end of April and we...

I know it's been a while since my last update, I have gotten a bit slack lately!! Here is an overview of our time in Germany and I will soon follow with blogs for the rest of the trip. From Munich we drove west and stayed in a little village near the town of Fussen where the fairytale castles of King Ludwig are. We didn't go into the castles but strolled through the village and Cara had a play in the lake nearby. For those that don't know, King Ludwig gre...

Friday 31 August we drove a mere 50 km's up the road into Germany to Berchtesgaden. We could have seen this area without moving the caravan, but we decided we were ready for a change of scenery. It was our shortest move yet, only a 40-minute drive away, which meant we got there about 10.30am. Berchtesgaden is a very beautiful area with little villages, towering alps and fast-flowing rivers. As beautiful as this area is, it has a sinister background with...