Home Sweet Home...and dry

Why did travelling by train in Britain feel like about the most challenging part of our journey, I wonder?

We didn't arrive at Kitty's parents' place in Wellington until after 10PM, so rather than cause a nocturnal fuss, we camped on their lawn. They had quite a shock, next morning!

So that's it - we've landed, and with a BUMP!Thank you so much for all your mails during our absence, encouraging words and subsequent 'welcome home' messages. It has been an amazing journey & apart from the difficulties of adjusting to the 'normal' life, our biggest challenge now will be trying not to bore everybody to death by going on about it. Did I tell you about the time we were trying to cross the border into Slov...

Back to blighty

We made a mad dash across Denmark (after 3 months of stunning weather, Denmark was our horizontal-rain Nemesis!) - in fact so mad that we didn't draw a single Danish Kroner from the bank, nor even buy a map - just followed the signs & the sun (what we could see of it) all the way to Esbjerg port!

After the rumours of a spot or 2 of rain in Britain, we were slightly taken aback to arrive in blazing sunshine.

In Harwich, we heard some guy say "right, I'm off across the estuary now", turned out he was skipper of the Stockley ferry and, nope, we didn't know what that was either, but we threw the bike & trailer onboard anyway and ended up in...yep, Stockley (see pic). We cycled the 10 miles to Ipswich and caught a train to Wellington. Tandems aren't allowed on British trains, so a bit of blagging was required, especially in Cambridge @ 5.30 on a Friday afternoon!

Going down

On our way up to north Germany, we hit a big, or rather wide, problem: trying to cross the Elbe river.

People we asked suggested the nearest bridge was a long way away - in the wrong direction.

Eventually the mystery was solved when we found this tucked-away lift entrance. It dropped us down to a large pedestrian tunnel, which we cycled along, resurfacing via another lift at the far end. Quite exciting - 'twas like a scene from Dr. Who!