19th to 23rd October 2007 Brueggen, Germany

 

Having gone sausage side and moved to Germany earlier in the year, it was about time someone visited Pam and David in their new home at the Javelin Army Barracks in Brueggen.

 

 

A hour and a half flight from East Midlands took us to the Cologne Bonn airport where Pam, David and Harry picked us up in their borrowed "executive transportation" (also known as a minibus)

 

Obviously you don't go all the way to Germany to sit in a house so we had a few trips out and about sight seeing.  Handily their new house is very close to the border with Holland so off we went to a beautiful town of Roermond.

 

 

 

With Brueggen being the nearest German town it would be rude not to go.  It was good to see that despite moving Country something's don't change as, in keeping with a long standing tradition when we meet Pam and David, it rained.

 

 

We also has a trip to Duesseldorf, making use of the tram (which we may of accidently not paid for!) to get us there.

 

 

 

Cost of going sausage side

 

We could have driven, and we will be when we return for Christmas, but this time we chose to fly.  So sticking with our efforts to be environmentally friendly we offset the CO₂ that our trip created.

 

Our trip with Easyjet created 402g of CO₂ which we offset by investing in the Perlabi Hydroelectric renewable energy project.  This is a small hydroelectric plant generating clean electricity by using water from the Chirizacha river in the Andes hillside in Ecuador, South America.