The best mountains in Europe and around the world. I love mountains and happily drag my family up as many as I can… which is probably really mean as they’re scared of heights! Oops. Here are our favourite mountains in Europe. Our goal (well, my goal..!) is to visit as many as I can… so expect this page to keep growing!
We visited Lake Annecy by accident. We emerged from the Alps and realised how close we were to the lake, so thought we’d detour to see it. The problem with unplanned detours…
On our trip from Italy to UK, we decided to detour. To be fair, it probably wasn’t a detour- we didn’t have a route planned in the first place!! Still, we looked…
We thought a nice sightseeing trip up a Swiss mountain to visit the pretty reservoir of Gelmersee would be calm, sedate, even a little boring. After all, we’d already climbed Mont Blanc.…
Looking for the perfect Isle of Skye itinerary to include in your Scotland Road Trip? Are you there for a day, a weekend or longer and want to do what you HAVE…
Scotland is one of those incredible places where you turn corner after corner and each is more breathtaking than the last! (Exactly the same as Norway!) The problem with places like that is…
We rode Trollstigen Road- possibly the BEST road in Norway- and it was AMAZING. Heck- we even got sunshine! I’ll be honest, one of the driving (ha- see what I did there!)…
Did you know that the longest road tunnel in the WORLD is in Norway? Neither did we! It’s not the sort of thing we thought to Google before we left: “Hello Siri… are…
One of the things we were really looking forward to in Norway was riding on the Flamsbana railway, a train ride up into the Norwegian mountains, which in 2014 was voted the…
We visited what could possibly be the best campsite in Norway! The views were incredible. See for yourself- watch the video of us at the campsite below. (We also drive through the…
Did you know you can climb to the top of the highest mountain in Germany? Without a crampon in sight. Oh yes, it’s true. Here’s how to visit Zugspitze! This post may…
Have you heard about the Panoramic Mont Blanc Cable Car? A cable car ride which takes you most of the way up Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe? The Aiguille…