Our English tour continued with a stay in our third Airbnb just south of Bristol near the village of Dundry. We were still in southwest England, between our earlier exploration areas of the Cotswolds and Cornwall.

The sea is always near in Britain, this is an island nation after all. We drove to the extreme southwest of England into the county of Cornwall until the motorway could go no further. We were on a narrow peninsula surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.

We’re staying in an Airbnb in an area of south-central England called the Cotswolds. The region consists of green hills and grasslands covering a layer of soft Jurrasic limestone. The homes and buildings in the region are built of that stone, providing a consistent golden hue to the villages.

It was time to explore England outside of London. Airfares had dropped from summer highs and the peak of the tourist crush had passed here in late September. But the “shoulder season” still offered up relatively good weather, at least by British standards.

The last few days of this trip brought me back to where it began, the Kingdom of Denmark. I crossed the border from Germany and stopped after a long day of exploring (and Autobahn driving) at a small village in the south of the country called Gram.

I spent my final days in Germany of this trip in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) and the city of Bremen (pronounced BRAY-min).

I’d eventually return my rental car in about a week to Denmark so it was time to swing north. My drive yesterday took me from Baden-Württemberg to the vineyard-covered valleys of the Rhineland. This is where Germany bordered France, Luxembourg and Belgium.

You can plan all you want but some things are out of your control. The weather is a good example. It was raining Friday morning and expected to continue all day (hey, it’s April). So I headed south for the Stuttgart suburb of Zuffenhausen and the Porsche Museum. …

Driving on the Autobahn is not for the faint of heart. Much of Germany’s federal highway system does not have an official speed limit. …