Post-lockdown trip into Europe

 My travel-obsessed parents have been longing to get away from their flat and last week I drove them around France, Belgium and Germany.

    All in all, it was a pleasant experience, although exhausting.

    The constant taking on and off of sun glasses and face masks was annoying, but both were necessary.

Mum and Dad at the Menin Gate, Ypres

Thew new (replacement) lions guarding the Menin Gate

Trier

The Mosel valley, through Western Germany, skirting the Luxembourg border

The view was the best thing about the hotel in Koblenz

Germany does castles better than anyone else

Koblenz's Deutsches Eck memorial to a unified Germany

Taking me back to Berlin 1990 - pieces of the wall as a memorial in Koblenz