Mousy mooches around Greece..

[Mousy]

Spent the day here yesterday..

Well worth the €7.50 each entry including the dog.

Water has flowed naturally in the Annevoie Gardens for over 250 years, relying solely on natural differences in levels and without resorting to machinery.

The gardens are crossed by a network of surface and underground canals. Water runs down the hills beside the Chateau thanks to the main reservoir of the grand canal (400 meters in length).
The entire system is governed by the simple principle of communicating vessels!

The chateau is still private and undergoing renovation but the whole site is beautiful

4 Springs
48 hectares of parkland
50 water features
200 year old trees
And 250 years of continuous water flow make this a special place.
Oh and a husband who can’t read a guide map made this a day to remember.

 

[Mousy]

We’d definitely recommend Namur and nearby Dinant as lovely places to visit. Both have broad cycle paths alongside the river for miles. Pretty towns with central aires.
We spent a night in the aire by the stadium in Namur which is perfect for a walk around but it was noisy with music til midnight from the sports hall. If you like techno rap it will be perfect for you!

The aire at the citadel is smaller but looked much quieter.

We traveled on into Luxembourg, very similar to Belgium, spotlessly clean with pretty gardens and houses. Cheap fuel at 96p per litre.

We parked up for the night at Luxembourg park and ride, very nice amenity with a lake and forest trails but unfortunately as it was May 1st and a bank holiday full of youffs bbqing, one night of loud music had been enough so we moved on.
With buses every 15mins into the city this would be a good place to use to explore.

Today we rode the scooter into the city and had a great walk around, what a beautiful place!

These caves are a tourist attraction and are much bigger than they look from the rock face.

Mr Mousy smiling before finding out that a coffee, salad, tart and soft drink in the modern art museum cafe would cost €30! Luckily it all belonged to the guy in front.

Huge amount of history on offer including some lovely art nouveau tiles, railings and buildings.

I wandered into the church of St Michael and was lucky enough to hear a single male monk chanting in Latin. Very atmospheric and moving although I’m not remotely catholic.

This was in the church but it felt too intrusive to have a really good poke around so I’m afraid I don’t know anything about it.

We’ve solved our ability to lose vehicles by using a dropped pin on our location before leaving! Genius!!

Onwards to Colmar...

 

[Mousy]

No idea what this expression means but she was watching us very closely whilst we ate our sausages...

 

[cliffanger]

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No idea what this expression means but she was watching us very closely whilst we ate our sausages...

That dog has a permanently p**ssed off expression - she wasn’t always like this - what have you done to her???

Luxembourg looks brill - glad you’re getting out and about on the scooter - be safe and continue having fun xx

 

[Mousy]

That dog has a permanently p**ssed off expression - she wasn’t always like this - what have you done to her???

Luxembourg looks brill - glad you’re getting out and about on the scooter - be safe and continue having fun xx

She’s 9 weeks old here and still got the miserable face on!

We really should of called her Mildred.

Missing you guys, this trip would of been right up your street. Please tell Cliff, tap, waste and filter all working beautifully..great job! X

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[Anthea M]

Loving your travels albeit vicariously!! Thank you both,
Are you looking in churches for relics for Ger!!!?
Safe travels!

 

[The Dudess]

A new addition this trip is this little Honda scooter, with a specialist dog carrier for Millie.

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She can pull her head in and out but prefers to see what’s going on...until I get on, then her head is almost up my arse!

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Of course our kids find it hilarious... and the fact we look like we are delivering pizza...

That looks like just the thing for our scooter and dog. Wondering whether our dog would fit though - how many kilos is Millie? Our Barley is about 12 kgs so may be too porky. Can you tell me where you got it from please. Thanks.

We're also in Greece (Crete) at the moment.

Edit: Just seen that you've already posted info on the box - sorry.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Hope you take the stairs in Dinant?

 

[Neilfg]

Loving the trip so far, is the scooter on the back or in the garage?

 

[Mousy]

Loving the trip so far, is the scooter on the back or in the garage?

Hi Neil, it goes in the garage on a slide out ramp.

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[Mousy]

From Luxembourg we travelled down into France again and spent 2 nights in Colmar.

We actually stayed in a little village outside Colmar called Eguisheim, very pretty with similar architecture but not so many tourists.

It was a bargain..free or €5 euros with hook up.
Right in the centre of the village but really quiet. We used the scooter to visit Colmar but the weather was taking a turn for the worse.

We visited the covered market and I drooled over the cheese counter..

So many choices..

Martin meanwhile was busy drooling over the beer..

Although I think the advertising was a tad misleading...I’ve never felt the need to serve pints quite like this

 

[john lillie]

watching your trip with interest, we did Greece in 2005 but did Bari to Igounemitsa as we were heading for Lefkas where we had a a boat at the time. One memory I have is the pack of very large feral dogs that roamed the port area at Bari, been a dog lover all our lives but they made even us very wary!Enjoy your trip

 

[Mousy]

We slept under the noise of rain drumming on the roof, I always like that so long as it’s stopped and dry by morning...unfortunately the cold wetness had outstayed it’s welcome, so we moved on, south in search of the elusive sunshine.

After much debate we settled on the route down through Switzerland.

Apparently I slept through snow capped mountains, waterfalls and amazing tunnels..oops..

Before we knew it we were in Italy and finally sunshine! We celebrated with a walk in the neighbourhood of Saronno, found another church to relic hunt for @cliffandger (unsuccessfully) and a shop selling the most wonderful tomatoes.. of course we had to have pasta for supper.

We’ve now got the most ginormous storm overhead with much thunder and lightning!
We always remember Phil @Taran_Las getting struck by lightning at Le Crotoy so we’ve turned all the electricity off just in case!!

Tomorrow we head down towards Florence, I fancy some culture before lazing on beaches in Greece...








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[Mousy]

watching your trip with interest, we did Greece in 2005 but did Bari to Igounemitsa as we were heading for Lefkas where we had a a boat at the time. One memory I have is the pack of very large feral dogs that roamed the port area at Bari, been a dog lover all our lives but they made even us very wary!Enjoy your trip

Thanks for the heads up...

Wouldn’t want our Millie to get ravished by tatty Italian Port dogs

 

[john lillie]

Thanks for the heads up...

Wouldn’t want our Millie to get ravished by tatty Italian Port dogs

she looks absolutely gorgeous, give you a fiver for her!

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[Figaro]

@mousey
May I ask which route you took to cross the Alps ?
St Gotthard Tunnel ?

 

[Mousy]

@mousey
May I ask which route you took to cross the Alps ?
St Gotthard Tunnel ?

Hi yes we went Colmar to Basel, into Switzerland, alps via Gotthard tunnel then into Italy.

 

[Offagain]

watching your trip with interest, we did Greece in 2005 but did Bari to Igounemitsa as we were heading for Lefkas where we had a a boat at the time. One memory I have is the pack of very large feral dogs that roamed the port area at Bari, been a dog lover all our lives but they made even us very wary!Enjoy your trip

Thanks for the heads up...

Wouldn’t want our Millie to get ravished by tatty Italian Port dogs

No sign of them last week when we were there

Please let us know where you stay in Italy as I'll be interested for our return trip in July.

 

[Minnie]

Will read about your trip with interest.
We would like to do that next year.
The dog looks secretly happy.

 

[john lillie]

@mousey
May I ask which route you took to cross the Alps ?
St Gotthard Tunnel ?

long time ago, but I remember going through a very long tunnel, we headed roughly from Strasbourg to Venice if that's any help

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[Mousy]

After 3 nights of incessant heavy rain we were fed up. What happened to our slow meandering trip down into Italy? Full of outside cups of coffee, people watching whilst I daydreamed about Italian leather handbags? Millie laid at our feet in the dappled sunshine being fawned over by good looking waiters?

Instead we were on the move and spending time in crappy car parks with everything shut up and desolate. Walking Millie had become a game of dodging rain showers and we were steaming through gas for the heating..yes it was even cold enough to warrant having the heating on!
This was definitely not what I signed up for.

We weren’t chasing the sunshine, we were instead moving on and letting the same bloody storm catch us up.

We stood still, in fact we dug in at San Marino, perhaps moving into a different country would give us better weather?

San Marino also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino is an enclaved microstate surrounded by Italy. It’s the fifth smallest country in the world.

And it had SUNSHINE... hallelujah!!

We parked in the aire with this lovely view, grabbed the bike and headed up, up, up...

A beautiful walled city perched on rock, with cobbled streets full of boutiques, ice cream shops and cafes, I was finally in heaven.

At last it felt like we were on holiday, what a difference sunshine makes..oh and copious shops selling handbags.. ciao

 

[Mousy]

Actually it doesn’t just sell handbags, San Marino has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the world so everywhere are gun shops..

From crossbows to samurai swords to guns of many kinds, it’s all on offer.

They even have a crossbow field..

Along with museums of torture, ancient weapons, vampires, curiosities and more. It’s a place worth exploring but it kinda had a dark vibe to it too.

 

[Mousy]

For other people like me who may love doors..

Knock yourselves out...

 

[ianthebuilder]

Hi it’s Pet on wheels. Made in Italy bought on amazon. Literature says up to 10kg. Ours is 8 kg but I think it’s more to do with sitting height. Don’t think a dog bigger than Millie would fit in, but she’s quite leggy!

I’ll measure her shoulder height tomorrow if you want.

It’s expensive too...

This was our cheaper option.. but vetoed by the kids..

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Don’t ask why we are in the hall!

Why you in the hall ? Lol x

 

[Anthea M]

For other people like me who may love doors..

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Knock yourselves out...

@Robert Clark is a door man!
Aren’t they wonderful!

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[Robert Clark]

@Robert Clark is a door man!
Aren’t they wonderful!

I love a good door
You can tell a lot about a place by its entrance

 

[Mousy]

Why you in the hall ? Lol x

Cos we live in Wales and it was raining...oh the irony of the last few days..

 

[ianthebuilder]

Pics are fantastic mousey,, I too love a door,,

But for me it’s the stonework or brickwork round it! Xx

 

[ianthebuilder]

I love a good door
You can tell a lot about a place by its entrance

Front or back??

 

[jollyrodger]

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I am not amused

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