From Calais, we went to Brugge for a night, cycled and walked around the city and bought chocolate, then via Grimberg, Leffe, Westmalle, and stayed a night outside Abbaye de Orval in SE Belgium; this was beautiful, with the finest Trappist ale & cheese. Mmmm.
Onwards into Germany; staying somewhere called Lemberg, before continuing on to Bad Durrheim; on a site for a couple of nights and an afternoon in their (famous!?) salt spa Schwarzwald thing.
Big thunderstorm last night, and again this evening; today we've left Germany behind for Switzerland, and are now parked beside the lake in a small town just east of Luzern.
A few glimpses of Alp have been had, but the cloud is very low and it's 16 deg and wet out there.
Hopefully will clear again tomorrow; we might stay around here, or move along to Interlaken to see the real Alps.
Apparently several of the passes are closed due to snow: didn't think to bring snowchains; looks like they'd be more use than our passports, which we've not needed at all yet -vive EEC!
Somehow Harris has managed to avoid getting bitten by insects, unlike us. Fortunately they have anti-hist. cream & pills here too: Harris is pleased they also have cranes and diggers. It seems much of the German road network is being replaced this year; presumably giving the 'workers' something to do while they're not making cars.
With any luck, we'll get WiFi somewhere soon; maybe McWiFi, and I'll upload some pics.
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