as you may or may not know - we went away for a little while!
i think an itinerary is in order so that everyone can know what to expect as we progress through the goliath blogathon that is needed to cover our 5 week long honeymoon trip.
here's an outline of our trip (places we stayed):
- Home
- Meribel, Alps (visit the Kuelsheimer's)
- Bern, Switzerland
- Hamburg, Germany
- Linköping, Sweden
- Bräcke, Sweden (Week Dog Sledding and Winter Bushcraft Trip)
- Umea, Sweden
- Junosuando, Sweden (Week stay at an organic B+B with loads of activities)
- Lulea, Sweden
- Sundsvall, Sweden
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Berlin, Germany
- Freiburg, Germany
- Chamonix, Alps
- Meribel, Alps
- Home
where to start....?
ok, the beginning!
on the 23rd of december we (me, nikki, monkey-boy and the lump) drove to Valence where we were supposed to pick-up a hire car for our trip.
the fun started when the idiots at the hire place monosyllabically informed us that the car we had booked months in advance wouldn't in-fact be coming with snow-tires or unlimited kilometers as booked which left us in a bit of a predicament.
so.....after much deliberation (and a very nice offer from m.b.) we packed monkey-boy off in a taxi back home (to spend the whole of january without a car) and we set-off in the Boo on our whirlwind tour of 'Everywhere Cold in Europe'.
our first stop was in the Alps (Meribel) where we spent a few days with the family Kuelsheimer.
here's a nice shot of Luke in the flat - he sure is one huge baby (apparently bigger than 98% of kids his age and wearing hats labelled for 3 year olds)!
much fun, long baths and good food was enjoyed by all!
then (after a particularly nice organic/free-range turkey we picked up from Edith's on our way to the Alps) in the late afternoon on Christmas Day we set off on our big adventure.....
first stop - Bern, Switzerland.
the hostel owners had very successfully achieved the hard to pull-off interior design look 'barely converted insane asylum' which we enjoyed.
here's a snap of our cell/room:
not particularly inspiring and/or honeymoon-like.
the next day involved 10+ hours driving north into Germany (and not much more to be honest).
we stayed at an incredibly cheap and really quite nice hotel just outside Hamburg in which we had some mediocre pizza, a few very nice German beers and received some free kinder chocolate from a very nice barman.
ok - moving on.....
the next day involved much more driving (this is a theme of the first week - we covered over 3000km in 4 very full days of driving).
we went up into and through Denmark and into Sweden staying in Linköping in a very nice little flat.
finally (after another LONG day driving) we arrived at our first real destination.
near to the town of Bräcke in the middle of Sweden we were going to spend a week Dog Sledding and learing some Winter Bushcraft skills.
more on this in the next action packed installment of 'Honey-Bob' (to be honest this installment is probably the least eventful and so don't forget to tune in.....).
but.....i'll leave you with a teaser photograph of one of our new Husky friends:
week 2 coming soon to a blog near you.....
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