Where's Bertie? He's still at the Stellplatz next to the Abbey at Beuron.
Weather: Sunny start, gradually clouding over, with showers and rumbles of thunder this afternoon. One shower was a downpour including some big lumps of hail.
My legs were feeling back to their usual energised selves this morning, so the walk that we didn't take yesterday was back on the agenda.
This one was around 12.5km and for the first 4km it wound around in relatively uninteresting woodland with only a couple of mediocre viewpoints. Just as I was wondering if there was any point to it, it started to pick up and two panoramic viewpoints of the valley (including two sets of buildings (castles?) atop limestone outcrops) plus two caves later, I was happy that it had been worthwhile. (There are more words and photos on the subject over at our walking blog).
The original plan had been to move on today, but before setting out we'd decided to play roulette with the payment machine again on the whim that if it gave us a ticket, we would stay another night. We did get a ticket and on this occasion (thanks to returned coins) it cost us €2.50. Today's added eccentricity was that it registered a 50c as a €1, but then evened itself out by eating, but not registering, the next one we put in.
Various afternoon activities have included finishing my second pair of roll-top trainer socks and dodging showers (windows open, windows shut; chairs out, chairs back in):
Didn't quite achieve a match on this pair. It started going awry on the heel turn of the first sock and was compounded when I merrily knitted through the point where I was meant to start decreasing for the toes. I did unknit a round and a half, before deciding I could live with one sock being slightly longer than the other.
This evening the Stellplatz has started to look like a Hymer convention - principally a vintage one with three old vans amongst the five here (one early 1980s, one late 1980s and one early 1990s, if my Hymer spotting skills are up to scratch). Bertie is the newest of the collection and between them all you can see that the fundamental design really hasn't changed all that much.
Weather: Sunny start, gradually clouding over, with showers and rumbles of thunder this afternoon. One shower was a downpour including some big lumps of hail.
My legs were feeling back to their usual energised selves this morning, so the walk that we didn't take yesterday was back on the agenda.
This one was around 12.5km and for the first 4km it wound around in relatively uninteresting woodland with only a couple of mediocre viewpoints. Just as I was wondering if there was any point to it, it started to pick up and two panoramic viewpoints of the valley (including two sets of buildings (castles?) atop limestone outcrops) plus two caves later, I was happy that it had been worthwhile. (There are more words and photos on the subject over at our walking blog).
The original plan had been to move on today, but before setting out we'd decided to play roulette with the payment machine again on the whim that if it gave us a ticket, we would stay another night. We did get a ticket and on this occasion (thanks to returned coins) it cost us €2.50. Today's added eccentricity was that it registered a 50c as a €1, but then evened itself out by eating, but not registering, the next one we put in.
Various afternoon activities have included finishing my second pair of roll-top trainer socks and dodging showers (windows open, windows shut; chairs out, chairs back in):
Didn't quite achieve a match on this pair. It started going awry on the heel turn of the first sock and was compounded when I merrily knitted through the point where I was meant to start decreasing for the toes. I did unknit a round and a half, before deciding I could live with one sock being slightly longer than the other.
This evening the Stellplatz has started to look like a Hymer convention - principally a vintage one with three old vans amongst the five here (one early 1980s, one late 1980s and one early 1990s, if my Hymer spotting skills are up to scratch). Bertie is the newest of the collection and between them all you can see that the fundamental design really hasn't changed all that much.
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