https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:08:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/second-week-in-england-were-done-europe/ Wed, 01 May 2024 14:33:46 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=67256 May 1, 2024 We left Liverpool early in order to miss the morning rush hour until we got close to Birmingham but even then we only had a ten minute slow down as the ring road was far enough away from the city. Our first stop today was Hailes Abbey ruins.  Fran loves these for […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/back-to-england-to-finish-off-europe/ Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:24:09 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=67203 As the steps we had to take to get ourselves to England continue from France to England, we have repeated the first three here in red to make better sense.  April 23rd, 2024 Today we had many steps that all had to go well. The Uber: The driver showed up a bit early which just meant […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/france-for-the-final-time/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:51:29 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=67075 April 18th, 2024 Well, our “escapes” around Europe are coming to an end.  The northeast corner of France will be the last place we travel with Minou. We have one last site on our list to see before selling: The Vimy Ridge Memorial. When we were a few kilometres away, we could see this monument […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/belguim/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:23:25 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=66953 April 16th, 2024 Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in northwest Europe.  The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the Norther Sea to the west. Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/the-netherlands-holland/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 15:47:23 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=66881 April 11th, 2024 The Netherlands, informally called Holland, is a country located in northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean (the countries of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten). The Netherlands consists of 12 provinces; it borders Germany to the east and Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the north and west. It shares maritime borders with the United Kingdom, Germany, and […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/passing-through-luxembourg-and-on-to-germany/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:18:48 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=66572 April 2nd, 2024 This will be a rather long post; our visit to Luxembourg was rather short and it made sense to combine it with Germany. We left the campground in Albert, France around 10am after exercising, showering, dishes, tea and dumping and filling.  We stopped in a few kilometres to see the Canadian Courcelette […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/passing-through-northern-spain-to-get-to-france/ https://calderescapes.com/posts/passing-through-northern-spain-to-get-to-france/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:41:20 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=66240 March 25th, 2024 We crossed the border back into Spain across a river in the misty rain.  The clocks went forward to Central European time.  We stopped for cheap gas at the first exit (€1.37 a litre!) and then drove north on the toll roads to the city of Santiago de Compostela where the Cathedral […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/passing-through-northern-spain-to-get-to-france/feed/ 1 https://calderescapes.com/posts/lisbon-and-the-north-of-portugal/ Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:23:35 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=66001 March 17th, 2024 Lisbon has a low emissions zone so we cannot enter the city proper but Fran found a small parking lot on the north side of the Vasco de Gama bright near a park.  This park turned out to be very busy on a Sunday but we managed to get a spot when […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/back-to-spain-and-on-to-portugal/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:14:50 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=65695 March 11th, 2024 Hola España! As we crossed over the border “line” from Morocco, a police officer wanted to see our passports and then see inside Minou just in case someone climbed aboard in the twenty metres since we’d left Morocco! EU Immigration came first, and we were stamped back into the Schengen; then customs […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/we-get-back-to-morocco/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:48:44 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=65468 March 1st, 2024 We arrived safe and sound in Morocco from Dubai and after short line at immigration, had a long a$$ wait for our luggage.  For some reason they were using two baggage carousels at the Casablanca airport so we each monitored one.  Finally one bag showed up on the one Doug was watching, […]]]>