Tour of Germany. Spring 2015. Part 5.

May 4th.

A sunny warm day, hooray. Left at 0915. It was a problen free but not really pleasant journey, mostly on autoroutes. We had no definate destination in mind, just somewhere near the French border, so we could follow the Rhine to Koblenz. Eventuall found a lovely little site in Schwardzwaldhorn. Set up in the sunshine.

We sat and had coffee and cake when an univited guest joined us.

Hazel named her Heidi. She was obviously a resident and had no nervousness around us. In fact, she hopped onto my lap and stole half my cake. The site was on a hillside and terraced, giving lovely views across the valley.

Then we settled down for the evening and had a barbecue.

It was delicious and of course washed down with some beer. 

May 5th.

Awoke to another sunny day. While packing away discovered Eevie and everything outside coated in a ver fine sawdust. There's a saw mill in the village which had to be the source. It wasn't difficult to clean, but for the residents it's got be very unhealthy, it's so fine they must be breathing it in.

  Left site 1000hrs heading north. A lot of Autoroutes again. Crossed the Rhine a couple of times before deciding to stop at Bad Dirkheim. Found a site "Camping Knaus". Checked in at 1400hrs and were told we couldn't enter until 1500hrs. Made use of the service point to dump the grey waste and top up with water. 1500hrs entered and set up.

It was a very large site but fairly quiet at that time. A nice lake for those that like a bit of fishing.

Neither of us fish, so we took a walk to Aldis for some more provisions. On our way back. next to the site is a single runway airfield. No planes any where to be seen or heard but a nice bar. Would have been rude to ignore it, so we didn't.

It had a lovely decked terrace, allthough the wind had picked up and the rattling of flag halyards was irritating.

As can be seen we were sheltered from the wind so it was still quite hot. Later back in Eevie we had a first attempt at cottage pie, cooked in the Remoska. An outstanding success.

Cleared up and settled down for the night.