Austria I think was always going to be about the scenery and it was. Vienna was nice, but at the end of the day it was just another large city, we did enjoy the architecture and history and the palace grounds were amazing, we spent a long and tiring day looking around a lot of Vienna, but then had to ride back to Bratislava to camp. So as I started, it was all about the scenery, but from the first day we arrived in Austria it rained and when we woke in the mornin...

The first time we visited Slovakia was between Hungary and Czech Republic but it was a rushed trip so that we could catch up with Ben in Prague. We decided we would visit Bratislava after going through Germany and into Austria because we knew we would visit Vienna and it is only some 70 Ks to Bratislava from Vienna, so that puts you in the picture. Our first visit took us to Trenčin where we stayed in a campground on an island in the river, it sounded nice on t...

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...

We entered Poland wanting to see Auschwitz, so we found a wonderful camp ground near by, well and hour away, it was wonderful, with heated pool and spa, we even stayed an extra day! We used it as a base to travel to Auschwitz and Krakow from. Auschwitz, we had been warned it is a very emotional experience going there, but nothing can prepare you for the place, we still get emotional when we talk about it and it has been over a week since we have been there. Quoti...