Category: European road trip

The fifth day of our trip was in Germany to see Ben’s gran one more time before we headed onto Belgium the next day.

Again, we wanted to spend as little money as possible as we’d already spent as much as we’d really wanted to – £1200 – and still had a day in Bruges to go where we wanted a tour of the city, plus the petrol costs to get back.  There will be a blog post soon with a breakdown of all the costs from this trip.  Our ideal budget was £1000, but this was adventurous with needing to buy European breakdown cover for a 24 year old car (£150 for this alone), travel insurance for a pre-existing medical condition (£50) and so on.

Happy birthday Ben!  Today was Ben’s 36^th birthday!

Today we headed into Soltau from Munster which is around a 20-minute drive.  Ben’s late mum was German and his Gran lives in Soltau in Germany.  Since we have been together we have visited almost once per year.  I think this is our sixth or seventh visit to Germany.  The last time we visited was August 2017 so two years ago, which is the longest we’ve left it.