Where's Bertie? He's in a Stellplatz at Neuhaus Ob Eck. The Stellplatz is free, as is electricity. Water and waste cost €1 each. (Exact location: 47.97461, 8.92365)
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine until lunchtime, then a few cloudy periods with rumbles of thunder, but only a few drops of rain.
We had a few priorities this morning, namely: a service point, food and diesel.
It was the need for water and toilet emptying that changed our intended destination for today. Whilst there was a service point at Tuttlingen, it was behind the temporary 'arena' that had taken over the usual motorhome parking area, meaning we couldn't get close enough to fill up Bertie's tank. So, instead of heading along the Danube to the location for our next intended walking route, we deferred that visit and headed to Neuhaus Ob Eck, via a Lidl and two petrol stations.
The first petrol station visit (little place hidden in a retail park, allegedly cheap) was aborted when we found that they didn't accept credit cards and weren't actually cheap. Instead we went to an Esso station on a main road, where we not only paid 5 cents less per litre, but were also able to fill up with LPG. It's 33 days since we last filled up with diesel and LPG, telling us that: a) we've not travelled very far! & b) we have been going through less than our average of 1 litre of LPG per day - surprising given how warm it has been, thus making the fridge work harder. Perhaps we've not been washing often enough? (Or, in my case, I've been having more cold showers than necessary.)
Arriving in Neuhaus we fulfilled our final requirements. Water bottles and tank filled; toilet emptied. Then we parked up and plugged into the free electricity at this free Stellplatz.
The most obvious reason why so many towns and villages in Europe provide free motorhome parking is because they want to attract visitors. A place that also gives free electricity strikes me as being doubly keen. I therefore expect such places to be worthy of a visit - and almost universally they are. Neuhaus has thus perplexed me a little.
We both walked around the town this afternoon (separately - I'd washed our running gear and wanted to get it dry outside, which meant one of us had to stay in) and neither of us found anything remotely interesting about the place.
The most interesting thing in the town itself?
There is an open air museum 500m up the road, out of town, and we can only guess that the museum is to what the town is trying to attract visitors by providing this facility. It sounds interesting enough for the price, so we shall oblige by paying it a visit tomorrow, thus deferring our Danube continuation a day longer.
Spot Bertie! Taken as I walked back from town via a circuit of the farmland adjacent to the Stellplatz.
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine until lunchtime, then a few cloudy periods with rumbles of thunder, but only a few drops of rain.
We had a few priorities this morning, namely: a service point, food and diesel.
It was the need for water and toilet emptying that changed our intended destination for today. Whilst there was a service point at Tuttlingen, it was behind the temporary 'arena' that had taken over the usual motorhome parking area, meaning we couldn't get close enough to fill up Bertie's tank. So, instead of heading along the Danube to the location for our next intended walking route, we deferred that visit and headed to Neuhaus Ob Eck, via a Lidl and two petrol stations.
The first petrol station visit (little place hidden in a retail park, allegedly cheap) was aborted when we found that they didn't accept credit cards and weren't actually cheap. Instead we went to an Esso station on a main road, where we not only paid 5 cents less per litre, but were also able to fill up with LPG. It's 33 days since we last filled up with diesel and LPG, telling us that: a) we've not travelled very far! & b) we have been going through less than our average of 1 litre of LPG per day - surprising given how warm it has been, thus making the fridge work harder. Perhaps we've not been washing often enough? (Or, in my case, I've been having more cold showers than necessary.)
Arriving in Neuhaus we fulfilled our final requirements. Water bottles and tank filled; toilet emptied. Then we parked up and plugged into the free electricity at this free Stellplatz.
The most obvious reason why so many towns and villages in Europe provide free motorhome parking is because they want to attract visitors. A place that also gives free electricity strikes me as being doubly keen. I therefore expect such places to be worthy of a visit - and almost universally they are. Neuhaus has thus perplexed me a little.
We both walked around the town this afternoon (separately - I'd washed our running gear and wanted to get it dry outside, which meant one of us had to stay in) and neither of us found anything remotely interesting about the place.
The most interesting thing in the town itself?
There is an open air museum 500m up the road, out of town, and we can only guess that the museum is to what the town is trying to attract visitors by providing this facility. It sounds interesting enough for the price, so we shall oblige by paying it a visit tomorrow, thus deferring our Danube continuation a day longer.
Spot Bertie! Taken as I walked back from town via a circuit of the farmland adjacent to the Stellplatz.
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