Where's Bertie? He's at the Stellplatz in Bad Waldsee where it costs €6 per 24 hours plus €2pppn Tourist Tax. Electricity and water are available at extra cost. Waste is free. Exact location: 47.91417, 9.76021
Weather: Overcast start, clearing to give a hot sunny day.
Last night was awful. On this occasion it was nothing to do with other people, even though we had a car parked behind us (in a massive car park, all other rows of which were empty) with chatting people and music playing for a couple of hours from just after midnight. As we were awake anyway, they were of no annoyance. The invasion of Bertie's interior by mosquitoes was the problem.
How did they get in? Was it through the door when one of us had gone out earlier, whereafter they all lurked in corners, undetected, until lights out? Was it through the door when we had the fly screen across, whereupon they all lurked between the fly screen and the door? Were they getting through the (relatively large) mesh of the permanent vents in the roof? Or through the dashboard heater ducts? Or did the little biting bastards that we knew to be trapped between the main roof light and its blind find a way to escape inwards? I favour some theories more than others, but the end result is the same: all night long one or both of us would hear the distinctive whining right by an ear, the light would go on, I would spring out of bed and go on the attack. We must have killed a couple of dozen. Two were full of blood. Wet wipes were deployed to remove said blood from the upholstery. The towel we were using for the splatting may never recover.
We managed to sleep between around 3.30 until 5.30am whereupon more high pitched whining in our ears woke us again. Bleurgh!
Today was going to see us move from the museum car park and into the town. As is often the case (and it was the mistake we made in Sigmaringen the other day) we didn't want to commit to the fee at the Stellplatz until we knew that the town was of interest to us. Lidl is far enough out of town to have an unrestricted car park, but near enough for us to consider it an easy walk in. Half an hour later we had decided to stay, not specifically for the delights of the town, to which we had not paid much attention at that point, but because we had confirmed that the laundrette that I had found trace of online (nowt in Google Maps about it though), did exist.
What a fun way to spend a couple of hours...
Having relocated to the Stellplatz (around 0.5km from town), we've had a fun-filled afternoon at the laundrette, featuring the longest drying cycle known to man (in another of those 'open the door and you forfeit your money' machines, so it may have dried quickly but we had no way of knowing). I did take a walk through the town and down to the lake whilst the washing machine was in action, as the timing of that was known (kinda; the machine had a display on the front, although it did occasionally start counting up rather than down).
Random shot of a street in the town
As the town's name suggests, there's a lake here (and a spa, next to which we are parked)
With the laundry situation now calmed from 'critical' (although not set back to zero as today's laundrette was another little independent whose one big machine was too big and too expensive, so we only used a small machine to do the urgently needed stuff), we now have some leeway to dawdle a while between here and Ulm.
(Incidentally, the tourist tax here entitles one to a number of freebies and discounts. One of the discounts is on entry to the Erwin Hymer Museum. If we had known that yesterday we likely would have arranged our stay here differently.)
Weather: Overcast start, clearing to give a hot sunny day.
Last night was awful. On this occasion it was nothing to do with other people, even though we had a car parked behind us (in a massive car park, all other rows of which were empty) with chatting people and music playing for a couple of hours from just after midnight. As we were awake anyway, they were of no annoyance. The invasion of Bertie's interior by mosquitoes was the problem.
How did they get in? Was it through the door when one of us had gone out earlier, whereafter they all lurked in corners, undetected, until lights out? Was it through the door when we had the fly screen across, whereupon they all lurked between the fly screen and the door? Were they getting through the (relatively large) mesh of the permanent vents in the roof? Or through the dashboard heater ducts? Or did the little biting bastards that we knew to be trapped between the main roof light and its blind find a way to escape inwards? I favour some theories more than others, but the end result is the same: all night long one or both of us would hear the distinctive whining right by an ear, the light would go on, I would spring out of bed and go on the attack. We must have killed a couple of dozen. Two were full of blood. Wet wipes were deployed to remove said blood from the upholstery. The towel we were using for the splatting may never recover.
We managed to sleep between around 3.30 until 5.30am whereupon more high pitched whining in our ears woke us again. Bleurgh!
Today was going to see us move from the museum car park and into the town. As is often the case (and it was the mistake we made in Sigmaringen the other day) we didn't want to commit to the fee at the Stellplatz until we knew that the town was of interest to us. Lidl is far enough out of town to have an unrestricted car park, but near enough for us to consider it an easy walk in. Half an hour later we had decided to stay, not specifically for the delights of the town, to which we had not paid much attention at that point, but because we had confirmed that the laundrette that I had found trace of online (nowt in Google Maps about it though), did exist.
What a fun way to spend a couple of hours...
Having relocated to the Stellplatz (around 0.5km from town), we've had a fun-filled afternoon at the laundrette, featuring the longest drying cycle known to man (in another of those 'open the door and you forfeit your money' machines, so it may have dried quickly but we had no way of knowing). I did take a walk through the town and down to the lake whilst the washing machine was in action, as the timing of that was known (kinda; the machine had a display on the front, although it did occasionally start counting up rather than down).
Random shot of a street in the town
As the town's name suggests, there's a lake here (and a spa, next to which we are parked)
With the laundry situation now calmed from 'critical' (although not set back to zero as today's laundrette was another little independent whose one big machine was too big and too expensive, so we only used a small machine to do the urgently needed stuff), we now have some leeway to dawdle a while between here and Ulm.
(Incidentally, the tourist tax here entitles one to a number of freebies and discounts. One of the discounts is on entry to the Erwin Hymer Museum. If we had known that yesterday we likely would have arranged our stay here differently.)
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