After the open landscapes around Dreiborn and the monumental National Socialist Ordensburg Vogelsang, Monschau felt completely different. Here everything is compressed into the narrow valley of the River Rur: steep hills rise almost immediately behind the houses,...
From Dreiborn we eventually went to the National Socialist Ordensburg Vogelsang, one of the largest surviving architectural complexes created by National Socialism in Germany. Our own visit was quite limited. We reached the National Socialist Ordensburg Vogelsang and...
By the time we reached Dreiborn, the landscape had changed again. We were now well inside the northern Eifel, surrounded by high ground, fields and forest rather than the flatter parts of Germany we had crossed earlier. We arrived in Dreiborn and then had to decide...
Leykaul is easy to drive through without realising how unusual it is. It is little more than a scattering of houses among forests, streams and open countryside in the German-speaking part of eastern Belgium, immediately beside the German border. Together with...
Travelling to Belgium with a dog is relatively straightforward, particularly when arriving from another European Union country, but there is no single Belgian rule covering everything that happens once the dog is inside the country. Entry requirements are largely...
