We stayed in Wiesbaden a week waiting for the results of the tests done on Julie's leg, in the end it was all clear, thankfully. It was a wonderful week spent with great friends and seeing more of a lovely area, unfortunately we had to move on, we were heading down to Stuttgart and staying with more friends in Rottenburg. Rottenburg was a lovely quite little German village with nice old buildings and streets. Our friends looked after us very well and took us to s...

We had booked a private tour of the BMW factory in Berlin, we had hoped to see where our bike was born, but we took too long in the engine building factory and could only see the birth of the 650 and 800s, it was most interesting and took three hours. We wanted to see what was left of the Berlin Wall and to see how it effected the city and its people, we really weren't prepared for what we learnt and found. Berlin has this brilliant memorial to the horrendous per...

Things are really moving quickly and it is hard to believe how quickly we are traveling country to country now. We first stopped in Hamburg after leaving Denmark. We stayed in a lovely little town called Bad Bramstedt, about 40 Kilometres from Hamburg. We traveled in for two days by train which took us about an hour and a half to get us to the centre of town. We found it very hard to find information for tourists, but we did find some beautiful parks and old chur...