Camping it up in Albania's Northern Riviera
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Northern Drymades Beach, Albania So we may be sitting in a rainy semi in Cheshire but in our hearts and minds we are still on our world adventure.   Luckily for me, I am so far behind in my posts that I can whishk (sic) myself back to sunnier days and keep blogging, keeping that dream alive. As far as our European leg was concerned, Albania was our final frontier: a little bit unknown, a little bit underdeveloped, a little bit dangerous? Perhaps?  At least, that’s what we were being led to believe listening to the attitudes of those living in the neighbouring countries. We've se ..read more
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Stari Bar: Montenegro
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The Natural Swimming Hole at MyOliveGarden camp After escaping fires we headed to the southern end of this diminutive country, to the old town of Stari Bar where again our car, complete with two roof boxes and six bikes attached proved massively unfeasible up the mountain roads.  Our equally ridiculous tent wouldn't fit on any the sites in the campsite so we ended up pitching it in the communal area right next to the bar (how did we manage that one again Mikes?) We spent our last couple of days in the country, kayaking on Lake Skadar and cooling off in the natural swimming hole of ..read more
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Fierce Forest Fires in Montenegro
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Fires at Herceg Novi, as viewed from the campsite! Photos by Nick Last night the fires spread to the hill we were camping on. Still probably 3 miles from us, up and over a ridge but the virility of the luminescent flames devouring the shrub land above us was not a welcome accompaniment to dinner.  Everyone was on high alert with bags packed ready for the evacuation call. A restless night later - you could hear the fire at points it was that close - and no evacuation yet, but there is ash on the tent!. Thanks to Steve who got about an hours sleep and spent the night monitoring the ..read more
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Full Monte in Montenegro
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Lazy, hot days at Full Monte Camping We left Croatia with a ripped tent and eyes in need of clockwork orange crocodile clips from a sleepless night being battered by the Bora wind. All night we lay petrified and frozen under the thin sarong we'd left unpacked as our blankets and sleeping bags were safely stowed in the car ready for an early morning departure which was not to happen due to said winds cancelling the crossing we were aiming for. We did cross eventually on the larger ferry which was still in operation and we were once again on our way - via a stop at the biggest hardw ..read more
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Croatia: Zagreb to Brač
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Cycling through Bol sunglasses essential. A short hop and a skip from Hungary and we were in country no.27, Croatia. We'd booked a cheap apartment in Zagreb and it was heaven to have two nights with good Wi-Fi, air-con, a private bathroom, a fridge and freezer! And most luxurious of all a washing machine. Clean clothes on tap! We washed everything we had, it was such a luxury. Some things even got washed twice during the short stay after the lakeside submerging (details to follow).  Again though, temperatures were soaring into the mid thirties so instead of touring the city o ..read more
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Balaton: Europe's largest lake.
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The proud cyclists Crossing into Hungary and we were beginning to feel quite a long way from home. We like to attempt to at least learn hello and thank you in all the local languages but even after five days we still couldn't master even these simple two words in Hungarian.  Luckily everyone was very friendly and super helpful and lots of people spoke English, so we got by.  We made a quick stop at Decathlon to splash out on new pedal bikes for the kids.  Vienna had seen them both crack the pedal bike without stabilisers. They both have inherited some sporting talents from Mikey ..read more
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Oh Vienna!
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Horses outside the Hofburg Palace, but not the dancing kind. It's not possible to say the name of the city of Vienna, it has to be sung. Famed for music, and I mean of the Mozart variety rather than Ultravox, Vienna had long been on my list of places to visit. Unfortunately, 32℃ is not conducive to wandering around great buildings with small kids. We saw the Hofburg Palace, where they have the Viennese dancing horses (which we saw only saw a video of, as the season had not yet begun). We also visited the zoo, where the sea lions provided much amusement playing hide and surprise ..read more
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Lake Lipno, Czechy
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Forest Kingdom : a young climbers heaven. Crossing from Austria to the Czech Republic, the difference in wealth was immediately evident.. All the way through Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria, the road were smooth perfection with bright markings and clear road signs. Crossing the border the road became unmarked, narrow and bumpy, road signs were non-existent and in their place roadsides were jammed with garden gnome shops? All very bizarre. Had we made a big mistake? Lucky for us, Lipno appeared. The lake is not far from the border and it's huge and beautiful. The town on th ..read more
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Alpine fun in Imst, Austria
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Typical Tyrolean view The drive from the Black Forest to the Tyrolean Alps was beautiful: lush, green, forested slopes gradually steepened to granite topped mountains which appeared to pierce the skies as they towered up around us.   We were heading for a campsite near Imst. The site recommended by Ed and Kerry was in the grounds of an old castle which is now a typically kitsch Austrian hotel. With access to a swimming lake and a short drive from the town itself it had buckets of appeal. Despite my best efforts to thwart our plans (booking entirely the wrong campsite), we managed t ..read more
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Germany: The Black Forest, greener than you think!
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The inflatable tent in all it's Black Forest glory! Mullerweiss We left Belgium for country number 23 on our tour, Germany. We were heading for the Black Forest, an area neither of us had visited before. A campsite spotted on cool camping was looking hopeful so that was our direction set.  We eventually arrived later than expected (reception had shut for the night) to find the tent field only had availability for 3 nights. Having so far spent 2 nights in one camp and 3 nights in another, we felt ready for a slightly elongated respite from the erecting regime but it looked unlikely ..read more
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