We explored the internet the night before to work out what we would like to do in Brussel on our big day out.  My friend Christelle was going to be our guide/translator for the day.  We decided to drive but when we hit some slow traffic at roadworks just out of Brussel I wondered whether the train might have been the better option.  Finally the traffic got moving and we...

We were headed to Fleron, Liege, Belgium to visit my old friend Christelle.  We had not seen each other for 18 years so it was fantastic to be able to meet again.  We drove from Luxembourg to Fleron, via the city of Liege. Just before leaving Luxembourg we filled up the car with diesel since it is about 15 cents cheaper per litre in Luxembourg!  We could have also stocked...

Lovely lovely Luxembourg.  It was great to be able to see this beautiful city and country with my friend Judit as our guide. We went for a drive around the city with Judit pointing out all the major attractions.  We didn’t stop to get out and about because we were headed for Vianden; a small town north of Luxembourg city.

We arrived in Vianden and parked the car so we could...

You know when you get to the end of a year and you think ‘Where did that year go?’  My greatest fear before we embarked on our journey was that we would get to the end of our year and we would feel it went too fast.  Well, this day makes the half way point of our round the world adventure and we are all still alive and well and it feels like it is moving at just the right...

Happy Birthday dear Patrick, Happy Birthday to you!  We started the day with Patrick opening up his little pile of presents.  What do you buy a 6 year old boy who is travelling around the world with limited space to carry ‘stuff” – Lego, Lego and a little bit more Lego and an electric toothbrush.  He just announced yesterday he has his first wiggly tooth! 

We were able to...

We awoke to sunshine which meant we could enjoy a walk around the city of Munich.  I walked 200 metres down the road to the local Edeka supermarket and bought fresh bread, ham and quark yogurt for breakfast. We then wanted to see Munich before we hit the road again.  Even thought the hotel was close to the train line we thought it was easier to drive into Munich and find a...

Up and another day of driving, this time from Nurnberg (Nuremberg) to Munich (Munchen); a relatively small day of driving compared to the day before … or so we thought. We checked out of the hotel; bought some fresh bread for the road and set the GPS to get us to Munich.   Steve had requested we go to Munich; maybe to add to his beer bottle cap collection! We packed up,...

We all enjoyed a good night’s sleep in our apartment and headed out to our secret destination for the day.  Patrick has been requesting to play mini-golf since we first played in England and saw numerous courses in Sweden at campgrounds that kept his interest alive.  We kept holding off due to the expense as it would cost about $30 Aus for all of us to play.  I told him...

When we announced we were going to travel around the world for 12 months with our two sons aged 5 and 9, most people first asked us if we won the lotto and then the next question was “What about school?”  To be honest this was the least of my concerns given the list of things to do to leave Australia for 12 months was very long.  Most people made comments about what a...

At 4 am we were all wide awake and sitting in our car; not because we wanted to get a jump start on the driving but because we were rudely awakened by the shrill of the fire alarm in the hostel.  We did the right thing by evacuating and decided in the cold morning air that sitting in the car was the best place to be.  We were pretty sure there wasn’t a fire but we waited...