All Sightseeing Posts
Today we drove, light engine, an hour or so over to Meissen, Lower Saxony.
The town sits on the River Elbe a few kilometres north west of Dresden. The purpose of our trip was to visit the House Of Meissen, the home of the famous porcelain maker. Porcelain has been produced in the town since 1710.
Today we took the short drive over to Colditz again to visit the Schloss and take the 13:00 guided tour. Priced at €9 the tour lasts an hour and gives you the basics of the history of the castle and its’ use as prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C during World War 2.
There is a two hour extended tour available too. If I were to go again I would plump for this.
Friday night has to go down as one of the most blustery nights that we have endured so far in the caravan here in Ballum. Added to that was the torrential rain which sounded like someone spraying the top and sides of the van with a hosepipe! We were suffering the effects of one of the current storms sweeping off the North Sea from the Atlantic.
Luckily by mid afternoon there was a break in the weather and to stop us going stir crazy we ventured out in the car to explore the local area.
This area of Denmark is located within the National Park Vadehavet /The Wadden Sea National Park, a UNESCO Heritage site. Continue reading Ballum, South Jutland, Denmark
Today we were looking forward to experiencing Denmark’s public transportation system from our local station in Holbæk directly into the city centre of Copenhagen.
We managed to find a free parking space next to the station which was lucky as the station was much busier than we had anticipated. Continue reading Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen
As we knew the Oslo Marathon would be happening on Saturday our best option for visiting the city would be today. Whenever we visit a city, we nearly always elect to use the public transport systems available and as luck would have it again, immediately outside the campsite was the bus, number 32, which would take us to the metro connection at Røa in 6 minutes and into the city centre. Perfect!
We purchased the Oslo City Pass for 24 hours at a cost of NOK 395 each, which gave us free entry to most of the museums, free travel on all public transport and discounts on some other attractions, if we wanted. Downloading the pass made life so much simpler and we felt it would be worth the money, as our intention today was to have one of our long overdue ‘cultural’ days. Continue reading Oslo City Pass