Where's Bertie? He's at the Stellplatz on the edge of the town of Ehingen (exact location: 48.27945, 9.73436). Electricity and water are available for a charge; waste is free.
Weather: Until 4pm, sunny and too hot. Then clouding over and a strong breeze picking up, cooling things down considerably.
Our plans for a walk around the nearby lake were thwarted this morning, when my assumption that the 'road closed ahead' sign applied only to cars and bikes (i.e. to the road, whereas we were on the embankment) proved false:
Nope, we won't be getting through there!
Instead we did some out-and-back wanderings along one edge of two lakes (impressive array of bird life), plus a detour to the river. The only thing it felt like we were missing on the revised plan was the shade we would have had through the trees on the opposite side of the water. It had been 25 degrees when we got up this morning and was pushing 30 by 9am.
Given the temperature, it was unfortunate to arrive in Ehingen to find all shady spots at the Stellplatz (which must be the Festplatz - it's a huge tarmac area that is mainly empty) taken. Even with Bertie's back turned to the sun and with a black-out blind on the cab window, and towels as sunshades over his kitchen window and door, I'm not sure we would have been able to tolerate the lack of shade if it hadn't been for today's saviour: there was a breeze - something that has been absent on previous sunny days.
Towels as sunshades. Must make up some insulated foil covers for the side windows.
The temperature wasn't such to make us want to be very active, but I did take a longer walk than intended when a circuit I was checking out came to a dead-end at a river and I had to backtrack.
A huge building passed on my walk, seemingly in the middle of open countryside. I couldn't believe how well it blended in.
Later we took a walk into town, which wasn't anything notable, bar a couple of features:
Fountain in the main square.
If the owners of this building had gone for the World Record for crookedest house, rather than the one we saw in Ulm at the weekend, I reckon they might have got it.
The stop at H&M on the way back through the town wasn't because I was after another new frock...
I didn't buy it. Its cut and my body didn't go well together.
...but because it offered a few minutes inside somewhere with air conditioning. The main church was similarly cool, but only the porch area was open (separated from the main body by glass walls/doors, so we could see inside, but not walk around).
By the time we got back to Bertie, he was creating shade for us on 'our' side (i.e. the side with the main door; we could have sat out earlier on the other side, but we would have felt like we were invading our neighbour's space). Even with the shade, it felt like we were in a fan oven for an hour or so, until suddenly the edge of a cloudy weather front was seen approaching. The wind picked up several notches, the sun went in and gradually the temperature has cooled (as I type this at 8pm it is just under 30 degrees inside - we hadn't got that low by 10pm last night).
We'll likely be on the move tomorrow, as there is nothing here to make me think that we will want to stay. Given how little of interest there seems to be in the immediate area (we are right next to the Donau cycle path, but it doesn't run along the river here), it's surprising how many vans there are here, and how many of them look to be here for a few days at least, the occupants seemingly happy to spend their days sitting in deckchairs in a huge car park.
Weather: Until 4pm, sunny and too hot. Then clouding over and a strong breeze picking up, cooling things down considerably.
Our plans for a walk around the nearby lake were thwarted this morning, when my assumption that the 'road closed ahead' sign applied only to cars and bikes (i.e. to the road, whereas we were on the embankment) proved false:
Nope, we won't be getting through there!
Instead we did some out-and-back wanderings along one edge of two lakes (impressive array of bird life), plus a detour to the river. The only thing it felt like we were missing on the revised plan was the shade we would have had through the trees on the opposite side of the water. It had been 25 degrees when we got up this morning and was pushing 30 by 9am.
Given the temperature, it was unfortunate to arrive in Ehingen to find all shady spots at the Stellplatz (which must be the Festplatz - it's a huge tarmac area that is mainly empty) taken. Even with Bertie's back turned to the sun and with a black-out blind on the cab window, and towels as sunshades over his kitchen window and door, I'm not sure we would have been able to tolerate the lack of shade if it hadn't been for today's saviour: there was a breeze - something that has been absent on previous sunny days.
Towels as sunshades. Must make up some insulated foil covers for the side windows.
The temperature wasn't such to make us want to be very active, but I did take a longer walk than intended when a circuit I was checking out came to a dead-end at a river and I had to backtrack.
A huge building passed on my walk, seemingly in the middle of open countryside. I couldn't believe how well it blended in.
Later we took a walk into town, which wasn't anything notable, bar a couple of features:
Fountain in the main square.
If the owners of this building had gone for the World Record for crookedest house, rather than the one we saw in Ulm at the weekend, I reckon they might have got it.
The stop at H&M on the way back through the town wasn't because I was after another new frock...
I didn't buy it. Its cut and my body didn't go well together.
...but because it offered a few minutes inside somewhere with air conditioning. The main church was similarly cool, but only the porch area was open (separated from the main body by glass walls/doors, so we could see inside, but not walk around).
By the time we got back to Bertie, he was creating shade for us on 'our' side (i.e. the side with the main door; we could have sat out earlier on the other side, but we would have felt like we were invading our neighbour's space). Even with the shade, it felt like we were in a fan oven for an hour or so, until suddenly the edge of a cloudy weather front was seen approaching. The wind picked up several notches, the sun went in and gradually the temperature has cooled (as I type this at 8pm it is just under 30 degrees inside - we hadn't got that low by 10pm last night).
We'll likely be on the move tomorrow, as there is nothing here to make me think that we will want to stay. Given how little of interest there seems to be in the immediate area (we are right next to the Donau cycle path, but it doesn't run along the river here), it's surprising how many vans there are here, and how many of them look to be here for a few days at least, the occupants seemingly happy to spend their days sitting in deckchairs in a huge car park.
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