Where's Bertie? He's at a Stellplatz in Leutkirch-im-Allgäu. It costs €8 per day to stay here, including wifi. Water and electricity are available for extra fees. (Exact location: 47.82216, 10.03938)
Weather: A sunny morning, gradually clouding in. The forecast rain hasn't yet arrived, but it's looking threatening as I type (ha! I'd managed six more words before a pattering was heard on Bertie's roof).
A successful morning! Laundry laundered, a map* bought, second breakfast consumed, a service point visited, groceries bought and by just gone noon we were driving the half-hour to Leutkirch-im-Allgäu.
We second-breakfasted whilst the laundry laundered and were alone outside our chosen eatery. At a table outside the bakery/cafe down the street was a chap fully attired in a traditional Lederhosen outfit, complete with a feather in his cap.
Rain was forecast for this afternoon, but the look of the sky after lunch wasn't off-putting, so we headed off into Leutkirch for a look around, shunning the shortest route alongside the road in favour of going part way around the lake that sits opposite the Stellplatz...
...then up into the woods, from where the occasional open meadow gave us a view:
The town is pleasant enough for a quick walk around, with plenty of old and half-timbered buildings, but it lacked oohworthiness of other places we've visited.
We arrived back at the Stellplatz to find the most striking example of the diversity of motorhomes. Twenty metres away from this beast (a converted articulated lorry)...
...is parked a converted Piagio Ape (one of those tiny three-wheeled Italian trucks).
Bonus snap - water feature of the day - the figures have articulated joints
(*I kept saying how handy it would be to have a one-page map of Germany that would fit on the table so that we could see the big picture. Road atlas books are all very well, but in all the flicking back and forth between pages it's difficult to see where towns lie in relation to one another. Today I finally sought out a bookshop and bought a 1:500k map that is too big to fit on the table, but as it's a folding map, can easily be refolded to show the area in which we're interested.)
Weather: A sunny morning, gradually clouding in. The forecast rain hasn't yet arrived, but it's looking threatening as I type (ha! I'd managed six more words before a pattering was heard on Bertie's roof).
A successful morning! Laundry laundered, a map* bought, second breakfast consumed, a service point visited, groceries bought and by just gone noon we were driving the half-hour to Leutkirch-im-Allgäu.
We second-breakfasted whilst the laundry laundered and were alone outside our chosen eatery. At a table outside the bakery/cafe down the street was a chap fully attired in a traditional Lederhosen outfit, complete with a feather in his cap.
Rain was forecast for this afternoon, but the look of the sky after lunch wasn't off-putting, so we headed off into Leutkirch for a look around, shunning the shortest route alongside the road in favour of going part way around the lake that sits opposite the Stellplatz...
...then up into the woods, from where the occasional open meadow gave us a view:
The town is pleasant enough for a quick walk around, with plenty of old and half-timbered buildings, but it lacked oohworthiness of other places we've visited.
No timbered buildings in this snap; just one of the squares.
A longer circuit through the woods would have been chosen for our return to Bertie, but by then the sky was getting a bit darker and for fear of being caught in a downpour at the furthest point from Bertie we opted to retrace our steps (with just one little accidental detour) back to the lake before completing the circuit thereof - a good recce for a run there tomorrow, when we'll know not to take the dead-end track!We arrived back at the Stellplatz to find the most striking example of the diversity of motorhomes. Twenty metres away from this beast (a converted articulated lorry)...
...is parked a converted Piagio Ape (one of those tiny three-wheeled Italian trucks).
Bonus snap - water feature of the day - the figures have articulated joints
(*I kept saying how handy it would be to have a one-page map of Germany that would fit on the table so that we could see the big picture. Road atlas books are all very well, but in all the flicking back and forth between pages it's difficult to see where towns lie in relation to one another. Today I finally sought out a bookshop and bought a 1:500k map that is too big to fit on the table, but as it's a folding map, can easily be refolded to show the area in which we're interested.)
I envy your second breakfasting which seems to be a favourable regular feature of your lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteYour solar charger interests me - how effective is it?
It's rare that a day goes by without us having either second breakfast or elevenses (the only difference between the two being the time of day). On backpacking trips we have both.
DeleteOur solar panel and leisure battery combo is very effective. By way of example, on our first big tour in Bertie (Scandinavia, in a very wet summer), we were away for 88 nights, of which we plugged into the mains on 6 nights (three of which were in the last week). Of the times where we had electric, there was only one I can recall when we positively needed mains power (we have a few things we can't run or charge from the leisure battery - notably our hair clippers); on the other occasions we plugged in because it was there at no extra cost. It helps that we're not heavy users of power, so even in February in Scotland (when we've had to run the heating overnight) our 100W solar panel combined with our 100Ah battery has kept us going nicely.