We had a relatively short drive today from Odense to Hamburg. We stopped at a petrol station cafe on the way and had goulash soup for lunch. There were loads of road works for the last 1.5 hours of the journey so it took a lot longer than it needed to! Our AirBnB host had totally forgotten we were arriving today (he thought we were arriving tomorrow) so we called him when we arrived at the apartment, after not hearing back from him earlier in the day. He felt so ...

It was a wet morning in Berlin when we woke up. We had breakfast and packed up ready for our drive to Hamburg - about a 3 hour journey. Of course we hadn't driven 10 seconds before we stopped to get a yummy breakfast roll each! As has been a trend for us, it rained a lot of the car journey but then the sun came out when we arrived in Hamburg. We stopped off at the supermarket (and Decathlon to return some insoles of course) and then went to Stef's house (Calvin's...

This morning we caught a train into the centre of Berlin to go on a 3 hour bike tour of Berlin. We were in a nice small group with only one other couple, from England. The weather looked a bit gloomy but we only got a tiny bit of rain! The bike tour took us to the Nikolaikirche (the oldest building in Berlin), Hackescher Markt, the Reichstag building, The Berlin Wall Memorial, Brandenburg Gate, the Victory Column, the Gendarmenmarkt with the German and French cat...

The drive from Wrocław to Berlin was not too difficult and we were very pleased to realise that Germany doesn't have any road tolls! And the autobahns were brilliant - driving up to 150 km/h (maybe even 160 km/h)! We crossed from Poland into Germany at Łęknica to stop at Rakotzbrücke, a beautiful bridge in Rhododendronpark Kromlau. The bridge, also known as Devil's Bridge, is made of stone in a semicircle which is reflected in the still water ...