So we decided to book accomodation ahead. Donna was very dubious of my choice of Hostel Am bahnhoff at Suhl - furnished with an industrial theme! So within 1Km of setting off we were going up, and up again, this was followed by another big climb, fortunately the day got easier until we left Meiningen in the afternoon where we had a brick wall climb. We simply had to stop and stop and stop for rests. Then we finally reached our shipping container - actually the wa...

So we decided to send Tatty the trailer & the camping gear home, We hit the road again on Saturday 9th September in high spirits with our lighter load despite the fact that we had to climb over the Vogelsberg mountains and it was pi**ing down with rain. Our first food stop was on some damp church steps (cake), our lunch stop was a quiet affair in a sleepy village on a bench with a bit of sunshine and we had tinned ham instead of cheese (yum), our last food st...

The decision to buy a new trailer to spread the load wasn't necessarily the right one, maybe the decision should have been to seriously lighten the load? We have 2 problems to solve. Firstly since we set off Donna has not had a good nights sleep and wakes up with a bad back every single morning. We are using the same inflatable camping matts as we have used before but no matter whether Donna's is fully or part inflated she hardly sleeps and crawls out of the tent...

Donna's new sim finally arrived 1.30pm on Monday 4th September and by 1.45pm we were on the road. Couldn't squeeze a full day in so we didn't know exactly where we were going to stop. The result was we found a campsite but not a shop to buy dinner so we had to eat out at the campsite restaurant - shame! Tuesday was our last day along the flat cycle paths of the beautiful Moselle. Our heavy load now spread over Titty the tandem and Tatty the trailer. Both happy to...

We set up office in the kids cub as it's not being used - there is a good wifi connection and plenty of charging points so everything is being topped up. Whilst we are awaiting the trailer some idiot at virgin has de-activated Donna's sim card and now she cannot call or text anyone. Virgin have sent a new sim card to my parents and they have sent it to us - priority international. So we have been awaiting a cycle trailer and a sim card! What else could go wrong, ...