Tag: Europe
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Short train ride, big hike, above the Rhine between Filsen and Braubach
Saturday was dry. Yippee! So with the help of local trains and Komoot navigation app, we wiggled back along the hillside from Filsen. The week marked trail has occasional maps which point out where the good view points are, so we nipped up and down the hillside to get the best ones in. Well worth…
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Cake at Cafe Flowery, Koblenz
When there’s a plant based cake place, even someone without a sweet tooth like me has to go. Relaxing happy place. The wooden floor is delightful. In my dreams I would host a dance party here.
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Drizzly cycle on Good Friday
The forecast wasn’t good, but what was I supposed to do with an Interrail ticket, a bicycle that came inexpensively with the Airbnb and a dog? We are staying in Niederlahnstein, which has taken a while to learn to spell. It’s the Caversham of Koblenz, ie the pleasant suburb on the other side of the…
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Wine-powered hydro electricity on a big scale in the Mosel / Moselle valley
Baspie dog and I were awestruck by the size and age of the hydropower plant we spotted whilst cycling by the Mosel. They built this hydro 60 years before Reading Hydro. Takes a maximum of 450 cumecs of water. Wow. I wonder if the local wine helped them in their fearlessness? The power is generated…
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A dodgy day of delays cancellations and scattiness
Yesterday Baspie the dog and I agreed that much as we like snuggling in a sleeping bag together, there are temperatures below which it isn’t an effective strategy. -3C was too low. Sub zero was forecast again. So we let the tent defrost and dry in the sunshine, and snuggled some more. We had some…
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Deep frozen in the night
Frosty tent in Maastricht Boy was it cold in the night. -3C. The sleeping quilt goes down to +2C, so it was well tested. Baspie and I layered up and snuggled up together and got by. He never normally lies down the length of me, but he was on for anything to be on my…
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Yummy vegan soup in Maastricht
Soup Bros in Maastricht is all vegan yummy soups. Plus nice bread things. Veg and herbs grown in their own garden. The flavours are influenced by a co-owner with Michelin star experience. Dog friendly too! Thank you Happycow app, as always showing where the best places are! ❤️
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Trains to Maastricht
Easy to get on the trains, I just showed my Interrail QR code to the entry gate, but very little signage on platforms to say where you are. To find out which platform your train goes from, best go on a platform and find a small screen. In the Netherlands you buy a day train…
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Arrival in the Netherlands
A quiet night on the ferry, with not much barking from other dogs in the pet cabin area. Arrival was easy. I was last off due to dog, which means you can lie in. You can’t go for breakfast if alone as you can’t leave a dog in the cabin. So bring your own food.…
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Easy and welcoming for Baspie on the ferry
A relaxing start to the Interrail adventure. We booked on the overnight Harwich to Hook of Holland ferry as one of the two foot passenger options to Europe with a dog. You can check in from 8:30pm. There’s a tiny outside deck with a sod of real grass plus astroturf to wee and poo. En…
Railway Dog 