The change in the hour to two hours ahead of British Summer Time gave us extra time in bed because neither of the dogs can read a watch yet. It meant a late start, but that didn’t matter because it…
Say Hello Lenin – Wave Goodbye
Today we continued on our journey to Vilnius. As we moved towards the far east of Poland the landscape changed once again. Now it was nearly continuous forest. This part of Poland, together with Southern Lithuania and western Belorussia are…
The Wolf’s Lair
Our interesting stop today was the Wolf’s Lair, Hitler’s bunker deep in, what was then, the East Prussian forests. The countryside on our journey today changed yet again. There were gently undulating hills and a mixture of dense forest and…
Mabel Takes the Plunge
Before we left beautiful Torun we had to, of course, check out LIDL to see if it was housed in some stunning brick gothic building. Unfortunately LIDL are, as my blog posts, predictable; it was located, as usual, in a…