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...
Belgium is one of those countries where the rules for motorhomes are often explained far too simply. The useful distinction is between parking, sleeping in a parked motorhome and actually camping, because legally they are not necessarily the same thing. As of...
After Petershagen, our route continued to Bad Oeynhausen, and this was another place whose present appearance makes much more sense once you know why the town exists at all. Unlike many of the towns we had been passing through, Bad Oeynhausen did not gradually grow...
After the dinosaurs at Rehburg-Loccum, Petershagen was a completely different kind of stop. Instead of prehistoric footprints and reconstructed animals, this part of the journey was about the Weser, flat countryside, old villages and an extraordinary number of...
Rehburg-Loccum was one of those stops where the name of the town mattered much less to us at first than the reason for going there: dinosaurs. More precisely, the Dinosaurier-Park at Münchehagen. It would be easy to dismiss it as a large family attraction filled with...
