Guten Tag!

Hey all

Just a quick check in from us vaguely happy campers.

We've clocked over 1100 miles so far, Arthur is going (touch wood) like a dream, even though the majority of those miles have been through torrential rain.

So unhappy at the weather - we did a full on drive south over 490km yesterday and still raining. Sigh.

So far we've been via Alkmaar and Groningen in Holland and then into Germany via Minden (Nord-Rhein Westfalia) where I grew up and then we sacked off Wolfsburg (sadly) for the option of legging it South.

Spent last night in Karlsruhe at the top of the Black Forest, and today we stopped in Baden-Baden only to find an Old Timers meeting with a couple of Beetles, a splittie and a Firewagon. Tonight we're deep amidst Southern Black Forest in a beautiful lakeside spot at Titisee, Neustadt. We"re gonna stay here a few days regardless of the rain as we all need a break from driving.

Very few late bay spots (in fact ANY bay spots). We camped next to a Swiss T25 last night and the miserable sod didn't even say hello :-(

Gin and elderflower fizz are on the go and we're raising a glass to you all.

Much love
Zoe + Paley xx

 

have a lovely time - ignore the rain
bek

 

Hope the weather picks up for you soon. Have a large gin and elderflower for me.

 

urggghhh the rain! hopefully it will get better, if not find somewhere picturesque and appreciate it with gin! )

 

Well youve answered a question for me. Had half a mind to bugger off to the Black Forest meself but guess Id better check the weather first.

Trust you guys are ok and not too peed off with the rain. Apple Schnaps is the one for me!! Gutten Nacht!

 

Just a quick tip while your in schnapps land , do not drink milk and then schnapps and then got to a disco .


the milk and schnapps curdles when mixed up

 

Hope the weather picks up for you all, if not just drink more gin that way you won't notice the rain

 

Have a great time, rain or shine!

 

Hopefully the weather picks up for you, hope you enjoy the
rest of your hols

 

Hope the weather improves :

I remember some lovely holidays as a kid around Titisee and the Black Forest.

I spent my time improving my German so that I could eventually say Bratwurst mit pommes frites bitte

 

Glad your enjoying it, prolly best your moving south as I will be in Mannheim / Dortmund / Lunen & Wuppertal next week so those areas are gonna get severe rain

 

Darren we came via Dortmund and Wuppertal and they were already saturated

Had a few days of sun with some cloud - at least we haven't seen rain for a few days. I can't tell you how depressing it was to be constantly in torrential downpours (actually I can tell you, it was so depressing that I woke up one morning and sobbed for 10 minutes, and I'm usually quite a positive person but COME ON it's been raining since April!!!)

Anyhoo we've stayed in our lovely lake-side spot to recharge the batteries. A T25 rocked up yesterday with a Scottish couple so we did the decent thing and took round a truck load of wine and sat and nattered for the night.

Tomorrow we're off - which may or may not have something to do with the fact that 13 caravans full of Irish travellers arrived ...and the fact that we ran out of gas yesterday : and it turns out there actually is only so many bratwurst one can eat.

We're going to dip into Switzerland - may stay the night, may not, depends on the weather - and then it's off vaguely in the direction of Dijon.

Taking plenty of pics, will upload when we get home.

big kissies
Z & P

 

Bonjour Tout Le Monde!

We are now dans La Suisse...or French Switzerland in good old English. Camped last night in an average campsite with hugely inflated rates in Delemont.

Today's adventure sees us hit our 4th and final country...we're heading into France via Besancon to Dijon for a few nights.

Tis hot and so we are now sitting around our delightful new Cadac Safari Chef boiling eggs for brekkie and complaining about the heat. Haha.

A bientot

Zoe, Paley, happy Arthur, grumpy teenager, hot dogs.

 

if your back for the weekend its going to be hot hot hot here

 

Spent a couple of nights in a great campsite in the wilds outside Bresancon, then a night in Chaumes in a campsite between a canal and the Moselle. Got to Verdun today, the weather is very hot Visited the ossuary at Douaument where the bones of 130,000 unknown soldiers they have dug up over the years in the area are kept, its a lovely, peaceful building, the huge piles of bones, millions of them, can be seen through windows outside the building, you have to put your face right to the window, let your eyesight adjust and there they, the remains of all those boys who never went home and have no marked grave. The countryside around here is much wooded, forests planted after WW1, if you look from the road into the forests you can see the ground is all shell craters, 2 million shells were fired in the first 10 hours of the battle of Verdun, the battle lasted 300 days, it was known as The Mincer.

Quite sobering.