Uppsala is a fair sized, fairly generic Swedish town, down the center a canal runs, dividing the city quite neatly and making picturesque what could have been quite generic a city.

Halmstad is a noticeably larger town than Varberg, though not so large as Gothenburg. Like Gothenburg it is divided by a river, but separating the city into the east and west with teh west being the old town with the old buildings and the east being newer.

Varberg is a fairly small town, and much of its shopping closes at 4pm, not really a surprise when Gothenburg is under 30 minutes away by train. Most of the shops are within a street or two of the shopping mall, and it is largely chain stores you will see elsewhere in Sweden.

Stockholm County is a county or län on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Stockholm County is divided by the historic provinces of Uppland and Södermanland.

Reykjavik is a surprisingly busy city on the west coast of Iceland. Surrounded by black volcanic stone and yellow grass the city is striking. Arctic winds blow in from the coast, and Iceland is the third windiest place in the world. Houses are generally low with sloped roofs to avoid the ever-present wind.

Six of our headed out on Saturday morning for Brännö island, off the coast of Gothenburg. Part of the Archipelago that is easily accessible by the many ferries.

The city has a strange character. Deeply religious with a number of well attended churches, old and incredible architecture vies with a a number of bland modern options and scattered throughout are futurist brutalist structures of incredible strangeness.

Belgrade, as it is not served by any low cost airlines, is spared the stag dos and hen dos that fill other eastern European cities. As such, it's tourism is lower volume and less crass. The city is served by a good network of Trams, which are surprisingly thiner than the average tram in other cities.

We had the fun of navigating through Munich’s fairly awful one way systems, and as it is a German city is was full of BMW and Mercedes drivers.

It was about a ten minute walk to the start of Burg zu Burghausen, which is a kilometre long, on the hill above the old town of Burghausen.

We walked around a fair bit in old town and saw Mozarts Geburtshaus, his birthplace, though we didn’t go in as the crowds were thick outside the building.

We saw quite a few castles on our drive, but it was only on the same exit as for our hotel that we saw the signs for the ice caves and the castle that had encouraged us to come out to Werfen.

We had decided the evening before that we would go straight to the Alpen Zoo in Innsbruck, which is slightly out of town and had its own parking.

There is no ceremony when you enter the Principality of Lichtenstein; there is a flag and that is about it. It is only later if you explore Lichtenstein you learn the importance of their flag.

Whilst eating, i happened to stumble on the fact that the Cabaret Voltaire was 2 minutes walk away, the home of Dadaism, and should be open and serving including Absinthe.

We could tell just from walking to the hotel that Fribourg was even more hilly than Lausanne had been and we’d be getting a lot of cardio on our explorations.

We attempted to take the more scenic route, despite the torrential rain, but the sat nav seemed to bring us along with a more indirect course, away from the water's edge that we had intended to follow around the coast.

A two week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich.Our original plan was do do a sunset cruise on the lake.

The bottom end of Switzerland is very narrow, and it was only fifteen minutes from the south border with Italy to the northernmost border with France and the small village of Meyrin, CERN’s location.

A two-week driving tour of the Alps, touring different cities, towns and villages. The trip started in Nice and ended in Munich.