Lake Orta is one of the smaller lakes, but beautifully formed. One day we decided to explore the hills having quickly looked at the map, disappointing, then, by accident, we came across Orta San Guilo. A little treasure of a place, on the tourist map but, not well known.
On the western side of northern Italy the lake extends into Switzerland. We drove around it’s entire shore, very nice in parts. We stayed on a site called Camping Conca D’oro, a lovely well appointed and clean site on the shores of the lake.
This is a large river delta area formed over hundreds of years by the Rhone and petite Rhone. It is famous for its horses, cattle and wildlife. The latter was disappointing only yielding one new species for Keith.
This is our current base. We have done a little exploring of the area, a mixture of tourism, agriculture and industry. The river Rhone has a strong influence on the area and some of you will associate it with very good wines. In a sense our journey as been to follow it until it enters the [...]
On Monday 31st May we left the site near Berlin and headed south, roughly. It is quite a distance, so we decided to take two days, selecting a site near Nurnberg for a nights stop over, that was the start of our troubles. We arrived at the site where the welcome was less than friendly. [...]
An open air museum on a par with the Weald and downland open air museum. It is a collection of traditional buildings, industrial and domestic, from various areas of the Netherlands. These buildings have been collected over a number of years to protect, conserve and display the history and development of the Netherlands. In particular its rural [...]
Today, Sunday we visited Arnhem, walking down a street we noticed what looked like market stalls. It turned out that they were selling everything related to motor bikes, it is an annual rally for the owners of Harley Davidson’s, there was hundreds if not thousands, everywhere. A loud and colourful street party.
Attached to the outside wall as you enter the toilet/shower area is a box designed to dispose of your cigarettes prior to entering the said facility. Keith became concerned that, on numerous occassions, persons of various ages and both sexes were staring into one box, a Dutch sport, or simply passive smoking? On one occasion he noticed [...]
We are talking those that alight from coaches at tourist hot spots. It strikes us that they are a combination of shepherd and sheep dog. The coach stops and they step out into the road, plaza or pavement encouraging the flock to follow, any member of the flock that dares to descent will find themselves being [...]
There must be thousands of hectares of bulb fields in Holland. We have placed a picture of one in our photo gallery. Whilst they are spectacular in their scale, however, they do tend to appear as coloured stripes striding across the flat countryside. We have included this photo in an attempt to give an impression of [...]
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