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Some things we have learned in the last 7 days since leaving Sydney:

Korean road rules in no way resemble ours.

Korean hotel restaurants serve meat at room temperature.

Koreans build MASSIVE bridges.

You can't just walk into a German hotel and eat breakfast.

Motorhome toilets smell only of the chemicals you pour in to treat the waste.

Germans obey ALL road rules exactly. Even the truck drivers.

Autobahns are amazing things.

On a Korean Air flight from Korea to Germany, 80% of the movie titles will be in English.

English motorways DO have speed limits, even though they don't tell you what it is. Even when you're getting out of the Channel Tunnel. No signs.

Bruges is beautiful, though there are a lot more tourists than are shown in the movie.

Bruges has not capitalised on the movie at all.

Bruges really is just like a f**king fairytale. (if you don't get that, see "In Bruges")

The Passchendaele museum is not in Passchendaele.

People regularly have shouting arguments on British trains.

Old ladies on British trains read Russell Brand's autobiography, but they hide it inside a gardening magazine.

The queue for the London Eye is soul destroyingly long.

You can still get classic rock stations on the AM band in the UK.

BBC TV Newsreaders have a much more relaxed manner than their Australian counterparts, and are much easier to watch.

Cons and Dunlop Volleys are not sufficient for serious walking.

In cafes in Bruges, a 'large coke' comes in a full sized stein.

Germans love their Biergartens.

I can't speak French.

Crossing the Channel in a motorhome costs €275.

Bruges has city-wide free wifi.

The staircase of the Bruges carillion gets VERY narrow up the top of the 366 steps.

There are CCTV cameras EVERYWHERE in London.

The Science museum would be a hell of a lot more rad if there weren't so many damn kids around. Seriously kid, it's my turn on that thing.

Gluten free food is quite nice, though impossible to find in cafes.

Vodafone actually works in the UK.

The London Underground struggles to cope with rugby games. Good luck with the Olympics, guys.

It's possible to accidentally drive into the Netherlands from Germany when you were aiming for Belgium.

That's 7 days. 109 to go.