It's been a strange few days. Not least because I could not get to the internet. There was supposed to be an internet cafe in Bad Elster, but I never did find it.

More later...

OK. ON Wednesday I moved on to Nurnberg, more or less on a whim (the train was ready and waiting ( Read more... )

I canät get into my email.

All is well, I am off to Plauen this morning. Then probably on to Poland from there.

Must post this before my card runs out.

Just a quickie.

I found a very cheap room in the old town. Saw H & R for supper, they are keeping better than for the last couple of years.

Off to a 'new' museum here.

All OK. CU later. Ö-)

My attempt to get back into Germany was not as successful as it should have been ( Read more... )

Monday is the day that all Belgian museums go into hibernation. It is also always a day when it rains (at least in my experience ( Read more... )

Mechlen seemed to be making a much greater effort for the Belgian Monuments day (the local version of Heritage Open Days), so it made more sense to stay around home than to go to a big city which had done little (this is often the pattern in Britain as well, Stockport puts on a much better show than Oxford ( Read more... )

This morning we took the Saturday morning trip around local tapestry manufacturers and conservers, de Wit (http://www.dewit.beRead more... )

Took a fairly empty train to Bruges this morning. I had remembered it from long ago as a very pretty town with canals on which I had had a boat trip. I hoped to repeat the boat trip. We took the bus to the town centre as I did not know how my back would hold out on the cobbles for the day ( Read more... )

We ate at a restaurant just out of the main tourist area. Very good soup, main course not quite as good, but overall a nice place to have been ( Read more... )