Monday, we, joined by more family, visited Stourhead, another National Trust property. Obviously had coffee first, then a walk around the lake and gardens, full of follies, a pantheon, a grotto. The house was less interesting, it was full of paintings, but had the lights low to preserve them, it was so dark you couldn’t really see the paintings.
Tuesday we had the long drive back up north to Pocklington, the weather was not good,but overall a reasonable drive, and home in time for dinner.
We spend Wednesday and Thursday packing, repacking and then, just to be sure, unpacking and repacking our bags again for our next adventure!Interrailing from Saturday.
Friday we went to Beverley Minster to see the Driffield Male Voice Choir. A member of Rog’s extended family is a member but he was not there on this occasion.
Saturday morning, we set off interrailing, thankfully the UK rail strikes had been called off, so it was a busy 8:58 from York to London Kings Cross, then a really busy 12:31 Eurostar to Paris , just remembered it’s the first day of school holidays!, followed by the 16:42 to Mulhouse. Still in France, just, but near the Swiss Border. A long but enjoyable first day of our next trip. The storm clouds over France made for an amazing sky. As the train got closer to Mulhouse, more people got off, and the train got cooler. A night in an Budget Ibis, not bad for €53.
Sunday, we decided to delay our original early train and went for a walk around Mulhouse, it was larger the we expected, with a nice church in the town square.
We did a bit of shopping for journey pic nic provisions, then caught a train to Chur in Switzerland via Basel, we had never heard of Chur before booking this trip, but weirdly Chur was on the BBC website, something about an old wartime monument, that no one now remembers was Nazi Propaganda back in 1938 when it was erected.
The night’s accommodation: a Booking.com little flat, so little it had adult bunk beds!
Our long time followers will remember the mileage and lock counts from the narrow boat, we’ll try to replicate it here with kilometres (sorry The Continent doesn’t do miles) and trains.
1,527 kms on 5 Trains
Travurple 