Where's Bertie? He's in a Stellplatz at the brewery in Bad Schussenried (exact location: 48.00289, 9.65954).
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine and hot.
After Sunday's awful night, last night we slept like dead people. Today it was difficult to drag ourselves out of bed within a reasonable time of the alarm going off, and we were slow to get going once we did. As we stepped out of the door in our running gear at 8.30 we belatedly realised that we should have made the effort to get up earlier - there was not a cloud in the sky and it was already getting hot.
As we ran our laps of the lake (which was very pretty under the clear sky; should have stopped to snap a photo) another reason for an earlier start became apparent. There were about a dozen groups of children of various ages, all on their way to or from their 'summer camp' activities, apparently with only one adult supervisor per large group. Children aren't renowned for being aware of their surroundings, and are generally oblivious as to what to do when someone is running towards them and their group is taking up the entire path.
I had intended to walk down into the town later in the morning, to pick up the walking map one can claim on presentation of a 'Kurkarte' (the card you get on payment of your Tourist Tax). That plan was thwarted when, after a leisurely breakfast, showers and packing away, I realised that I would hit the Tourist Office just after it closed for lunch.
Instead we left town and headed off to Aulendorf. We'd driven through the place on our way to Bad Waldsee, and after perusing the free 'Go motorhoming in this region!' brochure available at last night's Stellplatz, I thought it was worth a visit.
Making like Goldilocks trying to select a bed, we started off at the Stellplatz at the Carthago motorhome factory (unlike Hymer, this one is not entirely reserved for workshop customers). It wasn't a bad place, but its location wasn't ideal, being a bit further out of town than we would have preferred in the absence of a nice walking route between the two.
So, we moved up to the Health Spa on the other side of the town, battling road closures as we went, and there we would have stayed, except that, of the three car parks, the one allocated to motorhomes was on a slope. We nearly stayed for lunch, and if we had, we would likely have had a little look around the town, but when I realised that the next nearest option was the town of Bad Schussenried, and that it was only 6km up the road, we moved on again.
And here we have stayed. It's a pleasant little town, with a big ex-monastery complex, through which one can walk. Some of it has now been turned over to businesses and part is a museum. Other than admiring the exteriors of the buildings and looking at the sculptures around the grounds, of most interest to us was the church...
...with its magnificent painted ceilings...
...although I confess that part of the appeal today was that it was such a lovely temperature inside, compared to the 30 degrees outside.
The photo in the bottom right hand corner of this page is an aerial view of tonight's Stellplatz. I count 46 vans present when it was taken, contrary to the adjacent info panel where I've circled the stated capacity of 30! It is a very large area - easily big enough for 50 or more, if parked in the right configuration, but there are only 7 vans here tonight.
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine and hot.
After Sunday's awful night, last night we slept like dead people. Today it was difficult to drag ourselves out of bed within a reasonable time of the alarm going off, and we were slow to get going once we did. As we stepped out of the door in our running gear at 8.30 we belatedly realised that we should have made the effort to get up earlier - there was not a cloud in the sky and it was already getting hot.
As we ran our laps of the lake (which was very pretty under the clear sky; should have stopped to snap a photo) another reason for an earlier start became apparent. There were about a dozen groups of children of various ages, all on their way to or from their 'summer camp' activities, apparently with only one adult supervisor per large group. Children aren't renowned for being aware of their surroundings, and are generally oblivious as to what to do when someone is running towards them and their group is taking up the entire path.
I had intended to walk down into the town later in the morning, to pick up the walking map one can claim on presentation of a 'Kurkarte' (the card you get on payment of your Tourist Tax). That plan was thwarted when, after a leisurely breakfast, showers and packing away, I realised that I would hit the Tourist Office just after it closed for lunch.
Instead we left town and headed off to Aulendorf. We'd driven through the place on our way to Bad Waldsee, and after perusing the free 'Go motorhoming in this region!' brochure available at last night's Stellplatz, I thought it was worth a visit.
Making like Goldilocks trying to select a bed, we started off at the Stellplatz at the Carthago motorhome factory (unlike Hymer, this one is not entirely reserved for workshop customers). It wasn't a bad place, but its location wasn't ideal, being a bit further out of town than we would have preferred in the absence of a nice walking route between the two.
So, we moved up to the Health Spa on the other side of the town, battling road closures as we went, and there we would have stayed, except that, of the three car parks, the one allocated to motorhomes was on a slope. We nearly stayed for lunch, and if we had, we would likely have had a little look around the town, but when I realised that the next nearest option was the town of Bad Schussenried, and that it was only 6km up the road, we moved on again.
And here we have stayed. It's a pleasant little town, with a big ex-monastery complex, through which one can walk. Some of it has now been turned over to businesses and part is a museum. Other than admiring the exteriors of the buildings and looking at the sculptures around the grounds, of most interest to us was the church...
...with its magnificent painted ceilings...
...although I confess that part of the appeal today was that it was such a lovely temperature inside, compared to the 30 degrees outside.
The photo in the bottom right hand corner of this page is an aerial view of tonight's Stellplatz. I count 46 vans present when it was taken, contrary to the adjacent info panel where I've circled the stated capacity of 30! It is a very large area - easily big enough for 50 or more, if parked in the right configuration, but there are only 7 vans here tonight.
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