Hi all, well the dream is over. We would like to sign off on what has been an absolute tops trip. The Nad has soldiered on and got has up to Glasgow safe and sound. Thanks to those that have sent us messages along the way. I am off to Aus shortly so the reality of paying off this trip is yet to firmly sink in and then back to london on the 21st of Jan to do it all again. Look forward to seeing you or catching up over email now that our days are not filled with na...

Here we are in Lorsch with the Marquardt family. We are being treated to some fantastic German hospitality in very comfortable surroundings. So far we have been to the Bensheim Christmas market (I spent a year in Bensheim as an au-pair 11 years ago so it's great to visit here again) where we went up on the big wheel to get a good view of the town. We've sampled several different types of wurst, cheese, lebkuchen and been taken to a home butcher who makes his v...

We arrived in Plzen, the home of Pilsner lager, and headed straight to the Pilsner Urquell factory for a tour which included some tasting and a short visit to the bottling factory which produces 60,000 bottles and 28,000 cans of Pilsner lager per hour. The on site beer hall was handy for post-tour refreshments and then we made our way back into town for more of the same. The next morning we parked up and went for a quick brekky before heading to Germany, when w...

Great place, too many tourists, particularly too many Spanish.

We are bailed up in Telč, a little town not too far from Prague but far enough. Have had a Nad issue with the alternator deciding that it had had enough. Now i know that i am not alone in knowing what an alternator does but one thing that i knew that it wasnt doing was allowing that pedal between the accelator and the clutch to work at all. So go slow was in order and hand break stopping. Pretty lucky that we were in a town to get it looked at, and as far ...