On the road in 2017! In August and September 2017 we spend three weeks along the roads in Europe. Starting in Sweden we will drive through Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium before reaching France. Our base is in Northern France, and from there we plan to explore the region as well as Luxembourg and Germany. On the way back home to Sweden, we will stop in Germany and Denmark.
On the fifth day of our road trip, we decided to visit the birthplace of the European Union – Maastricht. This town in the southeastern Netherlands is only 30 minutes away from Hasselt, so we thought it’d be an interesting day for a visit. Maastricht: What We Saw and What We Did We arrived in…
Have you ever heard of Hasselt? Neither had we before we decided to go there. Now we are happily installed here for a few days before continuing to France. Our first day here was very pleasant – we walked a lot even though it was a really warm day. Both Jesper and I think that…
Good bye Germany for now. We left Lübeck early this morning and headed southwest towards Belgium. Our destination for the night was Hasselt, a small town in northeastern Belgium. But there was one stop to do before crossing the border. That was to stop in the German town Bielefeld to meet up with an old…
Once upon a time, it was the leading city of the Hanseatic League. Today Lübeck is a picturesque town in northern Germany and the first “proper” stop on our road trip to France. I have been to Lübeck once before, I can’t have been more than seven or eight years old, so needless to say: I don’t…
Finally, now that we have settled in our room for the night in Lübeck, it’s time to write a short summary of the boat trip from Malmö to Travemünde. We also had some time to take a walk in this German beach town earlier tonight, so here are our impressions. From Malmö to Travemünde with…
We have finally left Sweden and are currently on a ferry on our way to Travemünde in Germany. The ferry left Malmö a little over an hour ago. We arrived in the harbor half an hour before the check-in opened and had to spend some time waiting. Luckily it wasn’t that long before we were…
We notice that the nights are getting darker as we drive through Sweden. We have spent quite a few hours in the car since we left Vagnhärad. Now it’s time to say Good Morning Landskrona! This is our last stop before we reach Malmö, from where we will continue to the continent. Thus far the drive has…
It is soon time to go. We have been waiting for quite some time now to go on our trip – it’s been too long since we were abroad! For the last few days we have been visiting Jesper’s parents here in Vagnhärad and it is from here that we will start our trip down south….
It sometimes happens that you write a plan. A plan that you consider to be really good. A plan that you, later on, make even better by completely remaking it. That is kind of what happened with the plan for our “Journey to France and Back” We were really satisfied with it and now we…