Monday 22 July - Cadolzburg

Where's Bertie? He's in a free Stellplatz at Cadolzburg. Electricity and water are available for a fee. (Exact location: 49.46116, 10.85151)
Weather: A bit of high level cloud every now and then, but sunny and hot.

A trip to Lidl was first on the agenda today, where their parking warden made a beeline for us to tell us we couldn't park there. Thinking we'd strayed into an area reserved for some other nearby business, we moved. He approached again. It turned out he'd assumed that as we were in a motorhome we couldn't possibly be there for the legitimate purpose of shopping. Bizarre.

A trip to Decathlon came next. Seldom does a tour go by that we don't find ourselves parting with money in one of their stores.

Then onwards to Cadolzburg, a village (small town?) to which I'd been attracted by unusually good reviews of the Stellplatz here, together with mentions that the village is very pretty. It certainly is!

This was our first view, from about 50m up the road from Bertie:

The huge castle dates from at least 1157, but was left with only walls standing after WWII. Rebuilding was agreed in 1979 and completed in 2017. So, not a very old castle, really!

By the time we were standing in front of the castle (closed today, of course, because it's Monday), I felt like I could have taken a worthwhile photo from just about any place I'd stood on my way there - it really is a place with an attractive historic centre:

This afternoon it was too hot to be indoors, or outdoors unless in the shade, so we wandered off to investigate a little of the large area of woodland I'd seen on the map:

Looking back to the town from the start of the woodland path 

All very nice, but significantly more undulating than we've been accustomed to of late. If I choose to go for a run there in the morning it'll be a shock to the system!

Back at Bertie, it was still too hot to be indoors, but he's parked with his door opening onto an area of grass bordered by trees. We've thus spent the latter part of the afternoon, into this evening, with our deckchairs sitting in the shade of those trees. With a hint of a breeze blowing, it's been rather nice. (It's now 8pm and I've just typed this outside, with my phone sitting on my left knee and my keyboard on my lap; it's not a comfortable position for typing, but probably more comfortable than the 32 degrees inside!)

Fountains of the day. I can't choose between them.

Seat of the day - we came across a few of these (different designs on the tops) dotted around the village. In fact, there's even one about 20m away from Bertie.