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One-way ticket to Greece with nothing at all booked beyond the first week, so not really sure how this trip will pan out. Never been to...

After returning to Maastricht, while a long story we briefly ended up back in the German hamlet of Bad Bertrich. This place has been...

The very last stop on the road trip, all good things come to an end. Pesmes to Nancy was around 220km via the back-roads, which again I...

I have no idea how we decided to go to this tiny hamlet in central France near Dijon but no doubt it being labelled as one of France's...

350km from Avignon, Annecy is a fairly small city on a 35km long lake about 35km south of Geneva. It's called the Pearl of the Alps so...

It was time to slowly start heading north back to The Netherlands. Winter was setting in and I had some mild concerns about not having...

It was with a bit of sadness and regret that we departed Italy, should we not stay longer here? It's such a great place on so many...

So the furthest point of the road trip would turn out to be the town of San Gimignano, population 8,000 and like the centre of Florence,...

The journey further into Italy continued. Without any real plan and booking things at most a week in advance (the benefit of off-season...

I've always wanted to go to the Riviera, for somewhat unknown reasons but in my mind I pictured James Bond towns with characterful steep,...

No more than an hour south of the Turin you enter the Langhe, a region of rolling hills famous for wine, cheese, and in October,...

Turin. I'll be honest, another city I had not heard about before looking at the map and plotting an approximate road trip route. It's in...

To get to Italy from Germany, although not the only route, you pass through a somewhat scenic place called Switzerland. Vineyards seem to...

The first stop heading south on the road trip was Colmar, about 300km south of Bad Bertrich in France close to the German border. It's a...

The road trip commences. Destination only roughly mapped out, via Germany and Switzerland to Italy then not quite sure... but the car...

In The Netherlands there's a website called 'vakantie veilingen' which translates to 'holiday auctions'. Basically, you bid on particular...

I had never heard of Trier before, yet it turns out to be one of the most significant historical cities in Germany and played a critical...

Yes, Bertrich was a very naughty boy. Some of my 'extended' family live in Germany and recently started managing a hotel in the tiny town...

Already partly covered in an earlier diary entry, while staying in Maastricht in July I spent about 3 weeks working as a volunteer on a...

A half hour train ride south from Maastricht to the French speaking part of Belgium (Wallonia) takes you into Liège-Guillemins railway...