HandS Travel

Sheila woke up this morning (Easter Morning) at about 3AM crying from the pain in her throat.  It had been sore before we left the UK, but we knew if we went to the doctor in the UK they would have said, “Give it a few days…”.  So we did and by this night it [...]

 After our experience in the countryside of Germany, we spent a day exploring Cologne Germany, where we were staying for most of the trip.  We started by just wandering about a wee bit.  The area we were staying (the river frontish and Cathedral) was much prettier than the rest of the city we had seen [...]

After surviving the Nurburgring, we continued to drive through the German countryside to have dinner that evening at an old friend of Sheila’s that she hasn’t seen in about 10 years. We were lucky to be close to the Rhine so Sheila suggested we drive towards the river, by a recommendation from a friend in [...]

The main purpose of this trip was to have a lap or two around the Nurburgring.  The Nurburgring is a piece of road that has much history.  It originally started in 1927 as a 17.653 mile racetrack but has now been converted into a few different parts.  The part we would go on was the [...]

We started our roadtrip by waking up early and making our way across England to catch the ferry from Dover, England to Dunkirk, France.  We arrived to the area a little bit early so we decided to take a look around at the White Cliffs of Dover.  We were a little worried that we would [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

After surviving a nuclear disaster in Munich over New Year’s, we successfully rented a car and conquered semi-blizzard-like conditions (real Midwestern-like conditions, not “treacherous” British conditions of 2 inches) getting to Garmisch for our skiing adventure. Garmisch is actually a combination of two towns on the edge of the Alps and is thus called Garmisch-Partenkirchen. [...]