Over the centuries the city of Hamburg has suffered Viking raids, catastrophic fires, Danish occupation, heavy bombardment during WWII and more recently, a visit from Mowgli Adventures. Despite it all, Hamburg keeps building itself back up and remains known as the gateway to the world. Today, Hamburg is touted as Germany’s hip 2nd city, so …
Germany’s fairytale castle, Neuschwanstein is as pretty as a picture. So much so, Walt Disney allegedly based Cinderella’s fairytale castle on its architecture. With the towers and turrets, set high up on a steep hillside, Neuschwanstein Castle looks like it belongs on the pages of a storybook. But with more than 1.5 million visitors each …
Spend any amount of time in Germany and it’ll be clear the nation has a long-standing love affair with the automobile. In fact, it goes further than this with German engineering being world renowned. With highly efficient transport systems including fantastic speed limit free Autobahns, travel around Germany couldn’t be easier. For the car loving …
The cost of a European road trip can stack up quickly, and accommodation can take a huge chunk of your budget. But unlike the UK, much of Europe is well geared up for camper vans and motorhomes. Free camping in Europe with your motorhome is easy. Often easier than finding campsites in Europe. During a 6-week …
No trip through southern Germany in a Unimog would be complete without a visit to the Unimog Museum in Gaggenau. It is about an hour north of Stuttgart, two if you are driving a Unimog. It just so happened that we had time to make a detour with Mowgli and pop in for a look …