Besties Abroad

From Cardiff to Bristol with a short stop to checkout some neolithic tomb we had been recommended by Stephen. What a tomb it was, it was. The top stone was around the weight of six double decker buses (though Sarah remembers five) which seems pretty heavy and even more impressive when you think about how [...]

The next day in Cardiff we set aside to visit the Doctor Who exhibition. Like Belfast in Northern Ireland, the bay area in Cardiff is being revitalised. When we arrived it was beautifully sunny (a rare thing!) and it was great to look at the statues along the waterfront. We parked and had a coffee [...]

After leaving the cozy Brecon Beacons, we drove towards Cardiff to stay with some of my family friends, Lyn and Steve. Lyn lived in Zimbabwe next door to my mum’s family back in the day. On the way we drove past a brilliant castle with a proper moat around it, and it was too good [...]

We rented a cottage in the Brecon Beacons for a week, which is a national park but has lots of farmland and pasture. The rain kept up, and the news showed heavy flooding all around us, with our place smack in the middle but strangely unscathed – like being in the eye of the storm. [...]

It was very dark when we got off the ferry, and very cold. We drove into the darkness, down narrow country roads with the rain hitting our windscreen. Some of the roads were flooded, and made quite a splash as we hit them. In places the water must have been a foot deep, maybe more. [...]

Continuing our journey through Ireland, we arrived in Galway Hereabouts Ellie went to the hospital about her wrist, and indeed it was broken. The doctor pushed a bone back into place and gave her a brace and a prescription for anti-inflammatories. Then we drove into Sligo county, up tiny, windy, country roads, up a hill, [...]

Our first luck was Wexford! I’d picked the town just because it was 10 minutes from Rosslare, where the ferry dropped us off, and I’d found a very cheap hostel for only 60 euro for all four of us. It started a bit awkwardly, when we arrived at the hostel and knocked on the door. [...]

So we’re super behind on the old blog, too busy having a good time! Here’s a big week crammed into a few words, where I, Elise, my Dad and his partner Helen travelled through France. It didn’t seem so far when we were planning it, but it turned out to be a LOT of driving. [...]

Füssen is German for feet, and this magical little town was as far south as you could go in Germany without entering Austria. In fact we could have walk across the boarder if we were so inclined. The town itself is cobblestone roads and quaint 18th century houses atop a hill, surrounded by a large lime [...]

After a week in Prague we were on another five and a half hour bus trip to München (Munich). I got rid of our last few Czech koruna on a bargin bottle of Cherry Coke, which Sarah was super-happy about – it wouldn’t be this easy to find Cherry Coke once we returned to Australia. We [...]