We had a more relaxed start to our morning today with breakfast delivered to our room at 7.30 am. It was a huge spread that fed us for breakfast and also provided breadrolls for a picnic lunch later on. We checked out and headed off from Maastricht for the two…
We were up at 5.40 this morning! Nothing like a sleep in on holidays 😂 After throwing on several layers of clothes we hit the road back towards Bullecourt and the start of Neil’s battlefield tour. His own blog goes into it in much more detail but I’ve been amazed…
After an excellent buffet breakfast where I was tempted by the champagne on offer but resisted, we had to attend to a serious emergency…Neil has forgotten to pack the charging cable for his GoPro 5! 😂 We had Googled to see if we could find an electronics shop and…
it was a long flight with a sore rear end! I’ve been plagued with a bilateral hamstring problem for several months which makes sitting down for too long pretty uncomfortable. I’d been dreading the 23 hour trip to Amsterdam but a combination of travel cushions, Valium and a T.E.N.S machine…
We had a lovely start to our day. We had been hoping to catch up with Blake and Rebecca, the son and daughter in law of our friends Gae and Greg. Blake fell in love with Bec, a lovely Southern belle from Lafayette and they now make their home in…
It was wet and miserable when we woke this morning and we worried that our plans for the day would need rejigging, but by the time we returned from breakfast the sun was breaking through the clouds. Its Sunday today and the museums didn’t open til 10am but our body…
After last nights heavy thunderstorm we woke to more weather this morning…thick fog! With hopes that things would improve we drove off to the start of the Talimena Scenic Byway, which has the reputation of being one of the most scenic drives in the Ozark Mountains, and takes in the…
Today we dithered around between the two states, crossing the state border a few times in our drive down from the mountains. Before leaving Eureka Springs we stopped in to see the beautiful Thorncrown Chapel, it’s a soaring piece of stunning architecture nestled in the woods and constructed almost entirely…
Our drive today started with the “Scenic 7” Byway which leads from Hot Springs up in to the Ozark Mountains of Northern Arkansas. Or at least, it started after a slight navigational glitch which had us driving 10 miles in the wrong direction! However once on track we took a…
..States that is. We have now visited 36 states in the Union, only 14 more to go till we reach the golden 50! We crossed into Arkansas only a few minutes after leaving the hotel this morning as the border lies in the middle of the Mississippi River. From the…
Today we made a return to Memphis, which we’d visited in 2012 on our Cross-country trip. At that time we’d done the major sites of the town ( Graceland, of course!) so today was more about sights en-route to Memphis. We were keen to drive a section of the Natchez…
We woke to another bright sunny day and set off after breakfast on foot. It was only about a 10 minute walk down to the main music sights but on the way we passed a couple of parks where the homeless people seem to congregate. You see these poor people…
