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August 2005 to September 2006
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Travels around Europe by Jill and Ian, two recently retired librarians taking a "gap year" accompanied by Modestine, their faithful camping car. Click to view the Key to their epic 2005/2006 journey.
Complete index to all Maxted Travels with Modestine, series 1-5
Index to Maxted Travels with Modestine 5
Complete index to all Maxted Travels with Modestine, series 1-5
Index to Maxted Travels with Modestine 5
About Me
- Jill, Ian and Modestine
- Genuinely interested readers and enquirers may email us at jillmaxted@hotmail.co.uk
Postings
- Ian's index to Maxted Travels European Weblog
- Ian's clickable map to our travels
- Introduction - Setting the scene
- 1. Champagne-sur-Loue at last!
- 2. Bees, Bisous and La Montagne de Modestine
- 3. Poligny and elsewhere
- 4. Swiss Roll
- 5. Besancon and around
- 6. From France to Germany
- 7. Weimar
- 8. Munich
- 9. Hans, Knees and Bumps-a-Daisy
- 10. Wilhelm Tell and Switzerland
- 11. Back in the Jura
- 12. Absinthe makes the carp grow stronger
- 13. The sunshine continues
- 14. Toodle-loo to the Loue
- 15. Cevennes Up
- 16. In the hoofprints of Modestine
- 17. Into the Languedoc
- 18. Cathar country
- 19. Storms and floods
- 20. Pigs, paintings and poubelles
- 21. St. Chinian and around
- 22. Wholly snug on the holy trail
- 23. The round of the Basque Villes
- 24. Rose-red cities
- 25. Look back in Ambre
- 26. Starting to feel like Christmas at last
- 27. The ups and downs of Languedoc
- 28. Baubles at Boubals
- 29. Nimes and Avignon
- 30. Farewell to 2005 in Avignon
- 31. Happy New Ear from Van Gogh and us
- 32. Around the Camargue
- 33. Catalonia
- 34. ¡Viva España!
- 35. Girona and Barcelona
- 36. Home and dry
- 37. Ronda - a welcome in the hillside
- 38. Gibraltar and Trafalgar
- 39. Return to Cadiz
- 40. The wild west and beyond
- 41. The ends of the world
- 42. Evora and Coimbra
- 43. All the way to Santiago
- 44. A peek at the Picos
- 45. Cantabria to Gascony
- 46. How far has Mankind progressed?
- 47. Homeward bound
- 48. Maxted Travels part 2
- 49. Manifestly Paris
- 50. Encore Paris
- 51. Caen again
- 52. Guissény
- 53. Around the coast of Brittany
- 54. From Quimper to Vannes in a camper van
- 55. Villandry, vegetables, volcanoes and Volvic
- 56. Clermont-Ferrand and the Auvergne
- 57. From the Auvergne into Provence
- 58. Marcel Pagnol country and the Cote d'Azur
- 59. Menton – Not taking it on the chin!
- 60. Pisa and Lucca
- 61. Fiesole and Florence
- 62. Faenza, Ravenna and Comacchio
- 63. Venice and Padua
- 64. Into Austria
- 65. Graz, Austria
- 66. Keszthely and Lake Balaton
- 67. Pecs and library friends
- 68. On to Debrecen
- 69. Horsemen of the Puszta
- 70. Tokaj, Eger, Visegrad and Esztergom
- 71. Szentendre and Budapest
- 72. With friends in Györ and Gyömöre
- 73. Around Lake Fertö and Sopron
- 74. Tales from the Vienna Woods
- 75. Salzburg and Mondsee
- 76. Berchtesgaden and Königssee
- 77. Rohrbach, Landshut and Ingolstadt
- 78. Furth im Wald and an encounter with dragons
- 79. This year in Marienbad
- 80. Meissen and Dresden
- 81. Saxon Alps and Oberlausitz
- 82. Oi bin to Oybin
- 83. From Prussia with love
- 84. Schleswig-Holstein and Lubeck
- 85. North Friesland
- 86. Sylt and Flensburg
- 87. Denmark - fairytales, runes and lego
- 88. North Jutland
- 89. From Danish Blue to Jarlsberg
- 90. Kristiansand to Stavanger
- 91. Stavanger to Haugesund
- 92. Haugesund to Bergen
- 93. Bergen and the islands
- 94. The end of a journey
- 95. Postscript
- 96. A few facts and figures
Links to other Maxted blogs
- Maxted Travels with Modestine 2, Spring 2007
- Maxted Travels with Modestine 3, Autumn 2007
- Maxted Travels with Modestine 4, Spring 2008 - Autumn 2010
- Maxted Travels with Modestine 5, 2011-2012
- Maxted Travel, Trinidad, 2007
- Maxted Travels, Wallowing in the Maya, 2008
- Maxted Travels, Northern Spain, 1995
- Maxted Miscellany of odds and ends
- Maya Miscellany, 2008
- Manhole Miscellany
- Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History