It’s horrible isn’t it – watching someone get stressed over something that should bring excitement and anticipation.

The last 10 days have been a nightmare from which I could do little to escape, but, finally it’s over; Christmas travels are booked and I can sleep easy again with a husband less stressed and cross with the whole process.

Kind of takes the fun out of it, doesn’t it?

The reason I had been looking at somewhere like Morocco is that without doing a whole organised thing, I thought it would be easier to spend Christmas in a non-Christian country – you know, things (such as supermarkets and restaurants) would be open and the whole country would not be shutting down on a public holiday. That and the fact that I did not want to drive south into Bavaria without snow-tyres, but I was never going to win that argument.

Anyway, as suspected, the former East had proven to be a journey too far for one little week, and so we are doing a big loop from home to Würzburg, to Rothenburg ob der Tauber, to Augsburg, to Munich, to Regensberg, to Nürnberg, to Bamberg and home again.

Christmas Day was a bit of an issue – nowhere open for B&B as well as lunch/dinner so we have chosen to end the trip on Christmas morning, and drive home. This is where going to Morocco would have been a whole lot easier! I am a bit conerned that things will start to wind down (even on Christmas Eve; which is the day most in Germany have their main celebration) as we are not ending in a major city, but a picturesque town.

Nige has had a complete nightmare booking everything as places are either full or completely closed for Christmas. But at last, today – two days before leaving – everything is booked and we are ready for our brief road-trip.

I’m just hoping it doesn’t snow, and we don’t need those snow-tyres…