Where's Bertie? Continuing his tour of sports facilities, he's in the car park of one by Ludwigsburg. (Exact location: 48.89150, 9.21542)
Weather: A couple of showers early on, then a hot, sunny day broken up only by a brief thunder storm late this afternoon.
Which is worst: a car park containing rowdy yoofs in the middle of the night, or a motorhome full of mosquitos?
Last night we suffered the latter, although 'full of' is an exaggeration. It wasn't as bad as the night from hell in Bad Waldsee last summer, but too much kipping time was lost trying to eradicate the suckers that had got in.
After last year's experience, I threw a piece of noseeum mesh into Bertie when I packed this year and in the middle of the night I strung it up as a makeshift mosquito net. I thus managed to get through the night with only one bite. Mick didn't get off so lightly.
Makeshift mosquito protection, as modelled by Mick
In view of our car park being so blighted (which was odd, because it didn't look like an obvious candidate for mosquitos, being open and not next to crops or water), it was clear that we weren't going to spend a second night there. Thus, after I'd taken a trot along the River Neckar (plus a bit of a different river when I failed to navigate early on and briefly followed the wrong water course), I contemplated the map and kipping-spot resources to come up with a revised plan for the day. That's how we ended up here, at yet another huge and diverse sports facility.
We're only a mile outside of the centre of Ludwigsburg, so that's where we headed after lunch. We opted against the €9 entry fee for the palace gardens...
This is as much as we could see from outside the payment barrier
...and also shunned a visit to the palace itself, as it can only be visited on a guided tour and their website told me they are all currently in German (albeit with handouts available for foreigners). We've seen enough grand buildings to be selective as to the terms upon which we're willing to make a visit.
There doesn't seem to be much else by way of attractions in the town, but we took an amble around the centre, where the MarktPlatz was representative of the town as a whole...
...big and open. It doesn't have any appearance of an historic town, with its roads being griddish and broad and with an absence of timbering and wonkiness in its buildings.
Having visited so many historic places, we had no objection to wandering around this contrasting town. Then we plonked ourselves on a shady bench in a park for a bit of cross-wording before returning to an overheated Bertie (thankfully the brief thunderstorm earlier lowered the temperature considerably).
Serpent Sculpture of the day (we did see two fountains today, but neither merited an award, so today finished without any contenders for 'fountain of the day')
Weather: A couple of showers early on, then a hot, sunny day broken up only by a brief thunder storm late this afternoon.
Which is worst: a car park containing rowdy yoofs in the middle of the night, or a motorhome full of mosquitos?
Last night we suffered the latter, although 'full of' is an exaggeration. It wasn't as bad as the night from hell in Bad Waldsee last summer, but too much kipping time was lost trying to eradicate the suckers that had got in.
After last year's experience, I threw a piece of noseeum mesh into Bertie when I packed this year and in the middle of the night I strung it up as a makeshift mosquito net. I thus managed to get through the night with only one bite. Mick didn't get off so lightly.
In view of our car park being so blighted (which was odd, because it didn't look like an obvious candidate for mosquitos, being open and not next to crops or water), it was clear that we weren't going to spend a second night there. Thus, after I'd taken a trot along the River Neckar (plus a bit of a different river when I failed to navigate early on and briefly followed the wrong water course), I contemplated the map and kipping-spot resources to come up with a revised plan for the day. That's how we ended up here, at yet another huge and diverse sports facility.
We're only a mile outside of the centre of Ludwigsburg, so that's where we headed after lunch. We opted against the €9 entry fee for the palace gardens...
...and also shunned a visit to the palace itself, as it can only be visited on a guided tour and their website told me they are all currently in German (albeit with handouts available for foreigners). We've seen enough grand buildings to be selective as to the terms upon which we're willing to make a visit.
There doesn't seem to be much else by way of attractions in the town, but we took an amble around the centre, where the MarktPlatz was representative of the town as a whole...
Having visited so many historic places, we had no objection to wandering around this contrasting town. Then we plonked ourselves on a shady bench in a park for a bit of cross-wording before returning to an overheated Bertie (thankfully the brief thunderstorm earlier lowered the temperature considerably).
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