Road Trip Europe

France day 1,

2007-07-06T21:15:22Z

After dad had driven at the speed limit for over 2 and half hours, (it was toll'ed ie tickected lol) we arrived about 1pm, the weather was gorgous.

we checked in to find we have a swimming pool, jaquisy and suna for our use, just what the doc ordered.

Not much to add as we have a long trip tomo to Limousin (the south of France) and its a five hour drive, We are having fun and the weather is getting better.

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Day 3 (by Neil)

2007-07-06T21:08:37Z

It was a early start to a bright warmish day, we decided to visit a small town called Enthach it was a smallish town.
There was lots there but non of it was in english so we went and found the roman temple, well what was left of it.
Again not in english but we had spoken to them and had our own personal guided tour of the roman site.

On the way home we took a detour and found an old castle in Beaumont, so we played at at climbing towers and looking over big drops (Knackering lol, but fun). while doing this it decided to rain again.

We had another early start so it was'nt a long day.
ps satrting to get a tan

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Luxembourg

2007-07-06T20:59:58Z

After an uneventful drive in the rain, oops car went to 110 mph when it dired, we found our hotel in Kopstel. Wikked little family place in the middle of the forest. Nice enough, people were lovely but was kind of quaint with bits just not quite working properly.
Went into Luxembourg with no knowledge of the place at all (typical english). Found millions of bloody steps and hills which is surprising as it's on the top of a mountain-ish hill. Played at tourests and went deep into the depths of the castle, 34meters of steps down and bloody loads more up. Learned about the city and its history, which was interesting and ended up on a little road train that took us around. If you're fit (I am so not) then you must walk around the walls as they yare monumental.
The people are really nice and friendly. They are switched on and have people walking around in yellow coats as tour helpers, you can ask them almost anything (including the good bars) and they will help. How come we don't think of these things in England).
Basically uneventful and touresty day. They are about to have a festival and there was a lot of music anad dancing around the place. shops were high dem and expensive and the place is absolutely crammed with restaurants - I forgot to add that about Amsterdam as there you caan eat in restauraants from anywhere in the worls, and I mean literally anywhere.

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Amsterdam Day 2

2007-07-06T20:47:53Z

Awake and refreshed we headed into Amsterdam (apoligies for slurred writing as teeny bit tiddly at this time). Went window shopping, you so wouldn't believe what was in the windows! Didn't buy of course, but hmmm interesting, and actually not as exciting as you would think.
Went to Ann Franks house, a must for any traveller. It's fantastic, superbly put together and I can't praise it enough for thought and content. Both of us learned things. After this and a bite to eat we went to go on a canal cruise. We ran through the rain (bloody heavy), paid 6 Euro and climbed on the canal boat. We then got off the boat, got our money back and looked for the real tourest cruise as we had actually got on a water bus. We eventually found the cruise and spent an hour seeing the sights. I reccommend this action to anyone, and if with a female (or should I say partner to be politically correct) go on the cruise with drinks or meal as they appear romantic and fun.
As we were getting off the boat, a young lady with exceptionally large floatation aids (in case she fell in the canal) asked me if I was stiff as I was stretching. I explained to her that what she said was not the best english and that someone, unlike myself, may construe her question wrongly.
We returned to the city after a wash and brush up and being hungry found a weird chineese restaurant where the portions were massive (well all portions are huge here) and where all the staff and family sat on the table next to us and had a meal themselves. At least the food must have been ok if they ate it.
Post this, and Neil being hungry still, I bought him some cake in the buldon bar. For some reason he became light headed and talked utter crap. He also blamed the walls for being in the wrong place as an excuse fr loosing at pool. At least he didn't fall over, as I did the day before, although I did have to rescue him from the tram as I don't think he realised that they were bigger and faster than he was.

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Amsterdam

2007-07-02T18:00:00Z

It was a long trip but we finaly got to our first destination, the ferry was fab. I have now stepped into the big wide world at last with my dad as a guide.

Soon after we arrived we got changed and hit the town in the warm wether to explore the unknown, it seemed strange as it was a sunday evening and it was busy with people everywhere, unlike the uk.

We soon found a bar and chilled out with a drink and dad had somthing strong to smoke and was with the fairy's for a while, i even tried it but couldnt do it for long lol.

After a while we strolled all over town and found a nice italiian and had something to eat by now it was very late and we had been up since 1am,

so good night for day one.

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3 Days to go

2007-06-28T12:18:22Z

Well folks, 3days to go, I'm packed, ready and twiddling thumbs. Car's been serviced, new brakes, new tyres (I'm looking forward to the Autobarn lol) and everything is booked. I just want to go now !

Leaving around 2:30 am Sun 1st july, ferry departs 9am. Should be drunk by 9pm and in a cafe for a ciggy (cough cough). Damn smokers lol, ooops, you can't smoke in the uk, then neither can I on return - bugger

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The Villa Bit

2007-06-28T12:12:23Z

Ok, well with 3 days to go I thought I would add the Villa bit, which is one of the main points of our trip.
Cutting a long story short, my grandfather (Hertz), died and my grandmother re-married to a Valentine. He had a brother, Fritz, who was married to Tilly. All, including my parents are deceased. Fritz and Tilly used to live in Varese.

Fritz and Tilly had no children, therefore, my brother and I are the closest living relatives. The questions now include: Is the Villa there still? who is living in it? what happened to the rest of the estate? etc. etc. The first step therefore is to knock on the door and say Hi.

I will keep you posted on this. BTW, if you happen to be a lawyer or have knowledge of italian customs etc. regarding wills, estate and property, say hi as I think we will need help on this one

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Some Pics

2007-06-18T12:50:25Z

My Kids

My Car 1

My Car 2

My Car 3

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Well Hi !

2007-06-18T01:28:17Z

This is the beggining (it has to be as we havn't done it yet) of a 4 week roadtrip with my son Niel. He's 23 I'm 49 (trying to be 30). Its his 1st trip to Europe and so will introduce him to new cultures, for me the chance to see and wonder at some beautiful sights and maybe visit a couple of old haunts.
As we are away my daughter, Mellissa is also traveling around Europe, backpacking for 3 months. Alas we wont meet up, but hey, Hi Mel (http://mellissahurst.travellerspoint.com).
We head, after leaving on the 30th of June, for Amsterdamn for a couple of nights (father and son time) followed by 3 days total chill in Luxembourg. After that we travel to France for a week and then on to Italy where we search for (hopefully) our villa. (I will explain this later). A week later we head for Germany and the Grand Prix followed by 10 days of Germany, drinking, sight seeing, drinking and visiting old haunts of mine (I used to live in Germany).
Well thats the outline. I was going to add pics at this point, but, they are on my laptop and I'm not, lol. So will add them later.

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