We are now in our 60's and although not permanently retired, have planned this Euro trip for a while. Born in the UK but have lived in Australia and the South Pacific for nearly 30 years. Our plan was to travel around Europe leisurely in a motorhome, taking our time and visiting places we haven't been to before. Mike has been a Travel and Aviation consultant most of his life and Teresa initially a Travel Agent, then Fitness Instructor and in the past 20 years a bookkeeper. Our interests apart from travel are for Mike, music (a proficient guitar player) and for Teresa, arts & crafts of all sorts. We both love walking, exotic foods and little known tourist spots! Our home is evidence of our travels over the past 35 years with momentos from all corners of the globe!

 
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Mike & Teresa vH has visited 1 place in 39 cities in 21 countries and has written 1 travel blog with 44 entries.

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van Hessing European trip from November 2008 to April 2010

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Blog Entries

 Looking for a motorhome

The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands | Sep 30 '08 | 0 reviews

 Buying the Motorhome - in & around the UK

Shaw, United Kingdom | Oct 07 '08 | 0 reviews

 Netherlands to Germany's "Romantische Strasse"

Germany | Nov 01 '08 | 0 reviews

 Lake Garda to Tuscany

Tuscany, Italy | Nov 14 '08 | 0 reviews

 Pompeii, Naples & the Amalfi Coast

Pompei, Italy | Nov 21 '08 | 0 reviews

 Sicilia - Mt Etna area

Villa San Giovanni, Italy | Nov 22 '08 | 0 reviews

 South east Sicily to Noto

Noto, Italy | Nov 29 '08 | 0 reviews

 South Coast to Valle dei Templi

Agrigento, Sicily, Italy | Dec 08 '08 | 0 reviews

 Palermo via Mafia country & NW Sicily - Capo lo Vito..

Palermo, Italy | Dec 27 '08 | 0 reviews

 Cefalo area - N Sicily and farewell!

Cefalu, Italy | Jan 06 '09 | 0 reviews

 "View from the boot" - Poem

Messina, Italy | Jan 13 '09 | 0 reviews

 To Brindisi on the "heel" - en route to Greece

Brindisi, Italy | Jan 15 '09 | 0 reviews

 Athens after 36 years!

Athens, Greece | Jan 16 '09 | 0 reviews

 The island of Crete-the "beginning"

Plakias, Greece | Jan 23 '09 | 0 reviews

 Crete - the "middle"

Iraklion, Greece | Feb 11 '09 | 0 reviews

 Crete "the end"

Ierapetra, Greece | Mar 02 '09 | 0 reviews

 Verses of Crete - a poem

Iraklion, Greece | Mar 10 '09 | 0 reviews

 Meteora (how we loved it!) and Delphi & northern Greece

Lamia, Greece | Mar 17 '09 | 0 reviews

 The rest of Albania

Tirane, Albania | Mar 31 '09 | 0 reviews

 Croatia-the South (via 1 day in Bari, Italy!)

Dubrovnik, Croatia | Apr 02 '09 | 0 reviews

 Montenegro

Budva, Serbia | Apr 02 '09 | 0 reviews

 Croatia - the north

Rijeka, Croatia | Apr 10 '09 | 0 reviews

 sLOVEnia - how we love you!

Ljubljana, Slovenia | Apr 17 '09 | 0 reviews

 Slovenia - the North

Bled, Slovenia | May 12 '09 | 0 reviews

 Padova, Italy thru France and up to Paris

Padova, Italy | May 12 '09 | 0 reviews

 Paris - tres chic

Paris, France | May 22 '09 | 0 reviews

 En route from Paris via Belgium and Denmark to Norway

Brugge, Belgium | May 28 '09 | 0 reviews

 Belgium -beer and more beer

Brugge, Belgium | May 29 '09 | 0 reviews

 On our way to Norway family in tow!

Hirtshals, Denmark | Jun 05 '09 | 0 reviews

 Norway - first the South with family then we headed north.

Egersund, Norway | Jun 07 '09 | 0 reviews

 Norway - heading north

Trondheim, Norway | Jun 19 '09 | 0 reviews

 Sweden in July with the 4 billion trees, mossies and the flies!

Stockholm, Sweden | Jul 01 '09 | 0 reviews

 Estonia - you are SO tiny!

Tallinn, Estonia | Jul 12 '09 | 0 reviews

 Livonia lives in Latvia.....

Riga, Latvia | Jul 19 '09 | 0 reviews

 Lithuania - the last of the Baltic States

Vilnius, Lithuania | Jul 26 '09 | 0 reviews

 Poland - back to big populations!

Wroclaw, Poland | Jul 31 '09 | 0 reviews

 Lets add the Czech Republic to our trip! Why not!

Prague, Czech Republic | Aug 11 '09 | 0 reviews

 Germany and back to the Netherlands!

The Hague (Den Haag), Netherlands | Aug 20 '09 | 0 reviews

 Back to the UK to fix the window, see family etc etc

Eastbourne, United Kingdom | Aug 31 '09 | 0 reviews

 Back from side trip to Aus over to France once more!

London, United Kingdom | Nov 30 '09 | 0 reviews

 “Spain – for the seemingly millionth time!”

Barcelona, Spain | Dec 04 '09 | 0 reviews

 We're off on the road to Morocco!

Agadir, Morocco | Jan 14 '10 | 0 reviews

 Portugal we LOVE you!

Lisbon, Portugal | Feb 20 '10 | 0 reviews

 Northern Spain, back to Paris and its then its all over!

Paris, France | Mar 28 '10 | 0 reviews

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Favorite Photos

Man with donkey in little Cretian village
 \\"jewel\\" of the Italian Ionian Coast
 Italy
View from a drive to Selia, Crete
View from our apartment in Mirthios, Crete
Our first view of Lake Garda