Where's Bertie? He's feeling a tiny bit cheeky, sitting in a car park right next to a campsite in the Allerpark, Wolfsburg. Exact location: 52.43164, 10.81326.
Weather: Sunny intervals and a couple of heavy showers.
The weather was much more amenable to being outside this morning, so rather than dashing straight off to our next destination, we took a walk around the lake opposite to which we had spent the night - a quiet night until, at 7am, some workmen came and started laying temporary cabling immediately behind Bertie and the road sweeper starting doing repetitions of the road.
View from the opposite side of the road from Bertie
View from the other side of the lake. Bertie is semi hiding behind the fountain.
Another castle shot
Another castle-across-the-water shot
Taking in a number of points of interest with information signs on our way, we hit the main points of the town (church, rathaus, watermill), and walked through the wooded park to complete a circuit of the lake. All very pleasant, although it's another place that's only really got enough entertainment for an hour or two, not for an entire day - which suited us nicely on this occasion.
The drive to Wolfsburg (home of Volkswagen's headquarters and the worlds biggest car plant, so t'internet tells me) was about an hour, and I'm afraid to say that we came here without any intention of venturing into the city. Our sole purpose for being here is tomorrow's parkrun.
As it happens, I've spent far too big a chunk of the day putting together information about Bertie's leaks for his dealer (it's involved editing video that I took blind by waving my camera around under the floor, and anotating photos taken at odd angles with explanations as to what they're showing). Thus it was late afternoon by the time we headed out to look at the parkrun course, part of which sits about 100m one side of Bertie, and part 50m the other side.
The canal to Bertie's left
The lake to Bertie's right
As for our parking spot here, it feels a bit cheeky, being immediately the other side of the boundary fence of a campsite. If we were parked the other side of that fence, we would be paying €14.80 for a pitch without electricity. We did consider going for that option, as 20 days into the trip, our laundry situation is getting desperate. However, paying a campsite fee just to do laundry always feels like an expensive way to get the washing done (especially as campsite laundry facilities don't tend to be as good as laundrette facilities), so I have, once again, deferred sorting the bulging laundry sack for another day. Who needs clean clothes anyway?!
Weather: Sunny intervals and a couple of heavy showers.
The weather was much more amenable to being outside this morning, so rather than dashing straight off to our next destination, we took a walk around the lake opposite to which we had spent the night - a quiet night until, at 7am, some workmen came and started laying temporary cabling immediately behind Bertie and the road sweeper starting doing repetitions of the road.
Taking in a number of points of interest with information signs on our way, we hit the main points of the town (church, rathaus, watermill), and walked through the wooded park to complete a circuit of the lake. All very pleasant, although it's another place that's only really got enough entertainment for an hour or two, not for an entire day - which suited us nicely on this occasion.
The drive to Wolfsburg (home of Volkswagen's headquarters and the worlds biggest car plant, so t'internet tells me) was about an hour, and I'm afraid to say that we came here without any intention of venturing into the city. Our sole purpose for being here is tomorrow's parkrun.
As it happens, I've spent far too big a chunk of the day putting together information about Bertie's leaks for his dealer (it's involved editing video that I took blind by waving my camera around under the floor, and anotating photos taken at odd angles with explanations as to what they're showing). Thus it was late afternoon by the time we headed out to look at the parkrun course, part of which sits about 100m one side of Bertie, and part 50m the other side.
As for our parking spot here, it feels a bit cheeky, being immediately the other side of the boundary fence of a campsite. If we were parked the other side of that fence, we would be paying €14.80 for a pitch without electricity. We did consider going for that option, as 20 days into the trip, our laundry situation is getting desperate. However, paying a campsite fee just to do laundry always feels like an expensive way to get the washing done (especially as campsite laundry facilities don't tend to be as good as laundrette facilities), so I have, once again, deferred sorting the bulging laundry sack for another day. Who needs clean clothes anyway?!
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