Somehow managing to miss the big Hypermarkets around Calais... we drove to our first stop of Luxembourg... going via Belgium. Was quite a nice drive (says she who didn’t do any of the driving)... Luxembourg is really pretty.... built in a steep valley, there’s gorgeous views all around. Matt wasn’t feeling too well, but we headed into town to have a look around the square... really pretty... there were some small markets with Gluwein (yum!) and there were some kids singing Christmas carols. And after a little while it started snowing... it was all just really pretty... and cause we had managed to score a spot under a heater.. not too cold!
Headed from Luxembourg the next day down to Freiburg (Black Forest) to meet back up with Mum and Tash. Another gorgeous town... markets... gluwein... snow! We stayed at a pretty typical Germnstyle hotel called the Bierhausle.... Matt picked it on recommendation (can you tell?!). Surprisingly though there wasn’t actually much of a bar in the hotel, but the restaurant served some really yummy food!
We took a day trip into the Black Forest... Stopping at Triberg where the shop-keepers were whinging that it was one of the coldest days they’d had... (typical!!) Lots of cuckoo clocks had us mesmorised for a little while but all in all the town was very quiet! We let Navman try and direct us to the next town... but it tried to take us down some small roads that you couldn’t even see anymore! There was about 2 foot of snow covering the roads – though I’m convinced they must have been more like ‘tracks’. Given the steepness of the hill off the side and the fact we were on our own, we just weren’t game enough to keep following the Navman directions so had to head back for the main roads. The views though were absolutely spectacular. So beautiful with the snow on the trees... took so many photos!
From Freiburg we headed into Switzerland and given we were a day early decided to try somewhere random... based on booking.com discounts we picked Biel-Bienne – in the watch-making valley. On the trip there we were having a few problems cleaning the windscreen which was filthy from all the grit on the roads.. and none of the service stations had washer fluid... mmm fun...
Biel-Bienne was.... wierd... there was absolutely no one about... All the markets were closed... Didn’t see any other people in the hotel.... was strange... either it was a public holiday or it’s an industrial town and everyone had headed elsewhere for Christmas... dunno! So we didn’t really do much here! Spent some time in the supermarket! And wandered til we found somewhere for dinner... Mum being very quickly onto the fondue!
From there it was a relatively short but beautiful, particularly the last leg around the lake into Interlaken, journey to where we would spend Christmas... yay!
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