Where's Bertie? He's at a huge, but almost empty (Bertie + one other), Stellplatz at Nußbach, just outside of Triberg, in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) (Exact location: 48.13157, 8.25310).
Weather: Mainly overcast, but clearing to sunshine this evening. Warm enough to be out in shorts and t-shirts.
Laundry was our mission this morning and the nearest laundrette I could find was a bit of a backtrack up the road to Bad Dürrheim (not to be confused with Bad Dürkheim, where we spent our first night in Germany). It was an unusually convenient establishment, in that there was a Bertie-sized parking space available right outside its door.
What was less convenient was its unique feature that if you open the tumble drier during its cycle (say, to check that everything hasn't knotted into a big ball - a recipe for stuff not drying), you forfeit the rest of that cycle. Never before have I come across a public laundry where you can't open and restart the drier as may times as you like. It was particularly inconvenient as all of the machines needed €1 coins, and a second spend on the drier required 2 coins more than we had available.
Mick went and got change from the same bakery where I'd bought these two pastries earlier. They're both really bad photos, but hopefully it shows their enormous sizes. The one on the left was a surprise: I thought it had egg custard on it, but it turned out to be curd cheese.
With the laundry laundered, choices were again before us: to stay in Bad Dürrheim, or to continue on towards Triberg, which was to put another odd why-didn't-you-just-head-there-from-Stuttgart wiggle into our journey, occasioned by now having a guide book and knowing what is around us. Triberg won, but thinking that the parking there may be a bit busy by early afternoon, we aimed instead for a Stellplatz about 10km along the road, positioning us so we could hit Triberg early tomorrow.
Our stay at that first Stellplatz lasted about 2 minutes. There was nothing wrong with it, as an overnight stop, but it didn't stand out as a place to while away an afternoon, and the photos of this place at Nußbach looked much nicer. Onwards we came.
It was only after we arrived that I came to appreciate that we within comfortable walking distance of Triberg. A 10.5km circular route from here to the town, coming back via the falls (Triberg is famous for cuckoo clocks, Black Forest Gateau, and for 'Germany's highest waterfalls' - 163m drop over 7 cascades) was downloaded and at about 2.30pm off we toddled.
Up through the forest behind us, then down the other side, we arrived in the town to find ourselves thwarted: entry to the falls costs €5 per head. We've seen a lot of waterfalls (indeed, in Norway last year it was a rare event if we parked somewhere and couldn't see at least 6 of them) and some truly spectacular ones, so we weren't feeling inclined to pay out €10 for a 0.5km section of our intended walking circuit, just because it contained some cascading water.
The route was a mix of forest tracks and paths, with some open meadows giving us views of the surrounding area.
A viewpoint just before we dropped down to the town
View from the above
After a bit of aimless strolling around the town (lots of tat shops, lots of people) I pored over the map a while and worked out how we were going to re-route to pick up the return leg of our circuit.
Taken somewhere on our return leg
This evening I've perused the guidebook a little more and realise that there's a place to the north of where we are now sitting that I would like to visit. The question is whether it is worth a further backtrack, particularly when considering the complicating factor of the motorhome parking there being in heavy use during the day, so apparently one needs to arrive early or late to get a spot. We're unlikely to want to achieve 'early' tomorrow (we'd need to be away from here by 6.45, I reckon), and if we aim for 'late' there's the question as to what we do with the rest of the day. I'll report back tomorrow on what decision we make.
(Other random factettes about today:
1) There have been two spillages - a bag of mixed nuts went all over the floor; an exploding teabag went all over the cooker.
2) The SatNav has twice today decided that a tiny road running adjacent to the main road was a better choice than the main road, even though in both cases the destination was within a stone's throw of said main road. Unfortunately, the back-up navigator (i.e. me) failed to notice either until a moment too late.)
Weather: Mainly overcast, but clearing to sunshine this evening. Warm enough to be out in shorts and t-shirts.
Laundry was our mission this morning and the nearest laundrette I could find was a bit of a backtrack up the road to Bad Dürrheim (not to be confused with Bad Dürkheim, where we spent our first night in Germany). It was an unusually convenient establishment, in that there was a Bertie-sized parking space available right outside its door.
What was less convenient was its unique feature that if you open the tumble drier during its cycle (say, to check that everything hasn't knotted into a big ball - a recipe for stuff not drying), you forfeit the rest of that cycle. Never before have I come across a public laundry where you can't open and restart the drier as may times as you like. It was particularly inconvenient as all of the machines needed €1 coins, and a second spend on the drier required 2 coins more than we had available.
Mick went and got change from the same bakery where I'd bought these two pastries earlier. They're both really bad photos, but hopefully it shows their enormous sizes. The one on the left was a surprise: I thought it had egg custard on it, but it turned out to be curd cheese.
With the laundry laundered, choices were again before us: to stay in Bad Dürrheim, or to continue on towards Triberg, which was to put another odd why-didn't-you-just-head-there-from-Stuttgart wiggle into our journey, occasioned by now having a guide book and knowing what is around us. Triberg won, but thinking that the parking there may be a bit busy by early afternoon, we aimed instead for a Stellplatz about 10km along the road, positioning us so we could hit Triberg early tomorrow.
Our stay at that first Stellplatz lasted about 2 minutes. There was nothing wrong with it, as an overnight stop, but it didn't stand out as a place to while away an afternoon, and the photos of this place at Nußbach looked much nicer. Onwards we came.
It was only after we arrived that I came to appreciate that we within comfortable walking distance of Triberg. A 10.5km circular route from here to the town, coming back via the falls (Triberg is famous for cuckoo clocks, Black Forest Gateau, and for 'Germany's highest waterfalls' - 163m drop over 7 cascades) was downloaded and at about 2.30pm off we toddled.
Up through the forest behind us, then down the other side, we arrived in the town to find ourselves thwarted: entry to the falls costs €5 per head. We've seen a lot of waterfalls (indeed, in Norway last year it was a rare event if we parked somewhere and couldn't see at least 6 of them) and some truly spectacular ones, so we weren't feeling inclined to pay out €10 for a 0.5km section of our intended walking circuit, just because it contained some cascading water.
The route was a mix of forest tracks and paths, with some open meadows giving us views of the surrounding area.
A viewpoint just before we dropped down to the town
View from the above
After a bit of aimless strolling around the town (lots of tat shops, lots of people) I pored over the map a while and worked out how we were going to re-route to pick up the return leg of our circuit.
Taken somewhere on our return leg
This evening I've perused the guidebook a little more and realise that there's a place to the north of where we are now sitting that I would like to visit. The question is whether it is worth a further backtrack, particularly when considering the complicating factor of the motorhome parking there being in heavy use during the day, so apparently one needs to arrive early or late to get a spot. We're unlikely to want to achieve 'early' tomorrow (we'd need to be away from here by 6.45, I reckon), and if we aim for 'late' there's the question as to what we do with the rest of the day. I'll report back tomorrow on what decision we make.
(Other random factettes about today:
1) There have been two spillages - a bag of mixed nuts went all over the floor; an exploding teabag went all over the cooker.
2) The SatNav has twice today decided that a tiny road running adjacent to the main road was a better choice than the main road, even though in both cases the destination was within a stone's throw of said main road. Unfortunately, the back-up navigator (i.e. me) failed to notice either until a moment too late.)
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