HandS Travel

So we recently returned from a small Easter road trip across some of Europe.  This trip came about from some more of my (Henry) random trip planning, much the same way that our Christmas trip was planned, this one was pretty random.  I was watching my favorite BBC show, Top Gear.  I saw an episode [...]

So I (Sheila) thought I would write a short (or long depending on how fast I write on the last leg of this train journey) reflection blog about the past 6 months + 9 days here in the UK. Some of the best times in my life have taken place in this short time period [...]

Most people have heard of Greenwich and maybe even pronounce the ‘w’ in the word like we used to. Here, it’s pronounced ‘Gren-ich.’ We’ve wanted to visit all year since we have heard great things about the town and its attractions. We waited for and found the perfect spring day last weekend. We hopped on [...]

Sheila took me on a surprise trip to Wales a few weekends back.  She didn’t actually take me, but she planned it all and then I did the driving.  I took a half day off work and we left in the early afternoon, after some dificulties getting our destination into our GPS (in my Garmin [...]

Sorry for posting so late, but better late than never right? On another one of our off days in Garmisch Germany we took a short drive over to Nueschwanstein Castle.  This was only about an hour drive, so it was a short little day trip.  This day was ABSOLUTELY FREEZING, like -17 degrees centigrade is what the [...]

Let’s just say that the bear hat helped out in Garmisch. I think the average temperature there was about -7 Celsius or 17 degrees Fahrenheit. Nonetheless, we were amazed at the beauty and immenseness of the Alps. We agreed the views from the top of the Zugspitze, the tallest mountain in Germany at 9720 feet, were on the [...]