Hotel Restaurant Schloss Diepenbrock Bocholt

... cabinets to hold her treasures. So it was with great awe that I got to view this set-up in person.

We arrived at Biggy’s house in mid-afternoon. I recognized at once the front garden from pictures she had sent me in past. Her front garden, back garden and house were a delight to tour. Her husband, Bert, came home a short while later and our gracious hosts served ...

I am writing this from inside the Eurostar train, inside the Channel Tunnel.
We have been travelling for most of the day. We got on the train early this afternoon in Geldern.
The journey seemed a little cursed right from the start.
Our first train was 10 minutes late arriving in Cologne. I was a little surprised, as I had been under the impression that the Deutsche Bahn always ran on time. We were still able to make our connection to the ...

... and let him find his way home alone. Can you imagine that happening today?

In the interests of history, we explored the small Hengelo museum, which had an unusual cellar full of pickles and a Singer sewing machine. I bought an old photo postcard of the town, then we walked back to the van der Poel ice-cream shop. It claims to have 120 flavours, but we couldn't try them all. We certainly enjoyed the ones we did try.

The cashew nuts were in a huff with me, after their earlier failure to give adequate directions. They folded their nutty arms and refused to tell me when to change motorways. I ended up back-tracking through a small village with no useful signposts, and some locals who waved every time we drove back past them looking for the way out. The cashew nuts smirked at me.

It was quite late by the time we got to Sander and Renata's farmhouse on the outskirts of Hengelo. It is a lovely ...

... Church and the still functioning windmill. The Mill offers expert tours of the technologies and importance of the mill. Just across the street is a splendid museum that displays excellent geological samples collected, chiefly of the glacial erratics collected... The area is quite lovely, and the elevations of the town are built upon ...

... mates spent some time...many, many years ago. Ryan Air makes good use of the the airport now.
After Laarbruch we spent a good couple of hours trying to find a camping site that featured and rated highly in our stupid camping book. Finding a site out of this book is NEVER straight forward. We have to make use of it though, it's the only camping book we have, and it's in English too! Today the directions to 'get there ...

Yesterday I declared australia day here in Germany and insisted that my friends here wear a Koala on thier shirts all day. They obliged my request.

We all met at the Brauhaus at Centro Oberhausen. We had alovely afternoon sitting in the sun and having a few drinks and a nice meal.

Well my friends, the time has come for me to leave.In about 4 hours iwill be on my plane to return ...

Well my friends yesterday was a big day. Manni arrived here after breakfast with a nice bike and some bike shorts and jacket (I looked a little like Cadel Evans). The weather was cool & a fairly strong breeze could have made riding difficult. Wes started our journey at about 11.30am after a beer to celebrate our journey. We traveled along the Dorsten Canal and had our first break after about 13 kms. And ...

... Kia dealer. After about an hour, Victor drove out with the new car. To celebrate we stopped of for a currywurst & a coke. We arraved back to Dorsten and Rudi was waiting for me as we have been invited to visit Martina again as our visit was so short on Monday. We arrived there at a liitle after 7.00. we went for a walk to the Rhine river with Martina & Rudi and her son Jens and her ...

... I saw the sun drop down behind the trees and still no one eager to pick me... **** ****. So I walked to see if someone would be more friendly further. While I walked and pulled my thumb up its a whole city bus who stopped along the road to take me and could bring me all the way to 6km out of Bocholt. Great, I seem to have it with city buses in Germany as its not the first time! There I walked and finally sent an sms to Martin and he ...