European Road Trip Diary – June/July 2013…

Day 26 – Homeward Bound

Well here I am again back in sunny Bristol! Yesterday, we headed back to Calais making good time catching the ...
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Day 25 – Travel to Meaux and the Disney Village

We began our last full day in France by driving from our hotel in Claremont Ferrand to Meaux on the ...
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Day 24 – Travel to Claremont Ferrand via the Millau Viaduct

This morning we checked out of the hotel and headed straight into Montpellier for arrive around. During this time I ...
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Day 23 – In and Around Sete

Today was our last day in the south of France before starting to head back to Calais and guess what, ...
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Day 22 – Exploring Avignon and travel to Montpellier

We woke up in our posh hotel to another hot and sunny day as we headed to the centre of ...
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Day 21 – Exploring Lyon (Round 2) and travel to Avignon

We began today by going for a wander around the financial district of Lyon in which we discovered we could ...
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Day 20 – Exploring Lyon and the Tour de France

We had an unexpected start to the morning as we had planned to move the car to avoid paying a ...
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Day 19 – Travel to Lyon

Today we travelled from Bern to Lyon, we decided not to use the sat nav and instead resorted to a ...
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Day 18 – Exploring Bern

Here I am again... Today we headed out and about in Bern city centre which began by a half an ...
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Day 17 – The Jungfrau

Well as you can see we got to the hotel quite late which is why I'm writing this this morning ...
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Day 16 – Exploring Zurich

Today we headed into Zurich from our hotel at the airport, we debated about getting on the metro into the ...
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Day 14 – Travel to Strasbourg

Well if its 26 degrees at night and no air conditioning isn't enough, I don't know what is! Anyway today ...
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Day 13 – Exploring Paris

We woke up to a lovely hot day here in Paris. As we are staying next to the financial district, ...
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Day 12 – Travel to Paris (after swapping PAs!)

So here we are sitting in the hotel in La Defense in Paris! We checked in at our hotel and ...
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Day 10 & 11 – Travel and visit Disneyland

Firstly I want to apologise for missing yesterday's post. We set off from Luxembourg to Disneyland Paris, all was fine ...
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Day 9 – Travel and exploring Luxembourg

Last night we had a series of thunder storms in Frankfurt. As we were on the 10th floor of the ...
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Day 8 – Exploring Frankfurt

I can't believe how fast this holiday has gone! Today we explored Frankfurt, which began with an hour walk into ...
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Day 7 – Travel to Frankfurt

Well, stupid me and I forgot my phone last night, so couldn't tweet on the cable car! However, I wish ...
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Day 6 – Exploring Cologne

I want to start this post by mentioning the palaver that occurred when we decided to order Domino's pizza last ...
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Day 5 – Travel to Cologne

Today was another travelling day in the car to Cologne. We decided to take the route out of Belgium, into ...
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Day 4 – Exploring Brussels

We woke up in the beautiful city of Brussels, looking forward to visiting the Atomium. As I discovered yesterday, the ...
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Day 3 – Travel to Brussels

Another lovely day awaited us, as we travelled Brussels, in Belgium. Seeing as I was feeling lazy we didn't set ...
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Day 2 – Exploring Lille

Well...we woke up to a lovely sunny day with blue skies and headed down onto the metro, which was about ...
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Day 1 – Travel to Lille

Bonjour! We are here at the hotel in Lille, which we are staying in until Monday. It was an early ...
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