Leaving Burg Eltz, our ultimate cease on this street journey earlier than heading again to London was Aachen – a metropolis close to the border of the Netherlands and Belgium, making for the proper cease earlier than hopping aboard our DFDS ferry again to London (effectively truly, to Dover after which driving to London).

We checked into the Innside in Aachen as quickly as we obtained there and it was most likely at that time I realised we’d been on the street for about 14 hours that day!

A lot as I needed to go discover Aachen, we determined it made sense to only name it a day and have dinner on the rooftop restaurant at our lodge (which ended up truly fairly good!).

To be honest although, I didn’t have grand plans to correctly discover Aachen, there simply wasn’t sufficient time to do it correctly however that didn’t imply we couldn’t have a superb go at it.

The following morning, we did precisely that – wolfing by way of breakfast earlier than heading into city to test Aachen out.

Given our restricted time, there have been two major locations I knew I needed to go to – every part else could be a bonus – and people locations had been the Rathaus (the city corridor) and the cathedral.

Strolling by way of Aachen you’ll be able to see a really seen combine of previous and new which I think about are remnants from the struggle the place buildings would have been destroyed and subsequently changed with new ones.

The Rathaus was maybe one we’d have to avoid wasting for an additional time as despite the fact that we may go in, you might want to guide on a correct tour to discover, which we most definitely didn’t have the time for.

The market sq. in entrance of it although and the stroll to the cathedral are undoubtedly value testing whilst you’re within the metropolis.

The cathedral then again, nonetheless, required no pre-planning and is definitely one of the grandest locations we’d visited on this street journey by way of Germany.

It’s a shocking piece of structure and I’m so happy we obtained to go to it earlier than leaving the town!

And with that, it was time to go.

We’d be driving from Aachen all the best way over to Dunkirk in France to catch our DFDS ferry over to Dover – which sounds prefer it’s far-off however truly is simply about three hours for the drive between three international locations.

And similar to that, our street journey from the UK to Germany was over, with the White Cliffs of Dover welcoming us again dwelling!

It has been an incredible journey of first (Components 1 racing, Components truck…), full of heaps of my favorite issues to do in summer season (fort-hopping, wine tasting…).

Wanting again by way of all of this can be a good reminder of why I completely love street journeys and why yearly’s travels wants at the very least one!

It’s such a good way to discover and permits you to go to locations you maybe may need missed in any other case. 😀 Even higher nonetheless whenever you get to drive proper as much as your own home! (The automotive drop off place was simply down the street from there).

Anyhoooo, catch ya quickly!