Day 2 (Part 2)

Again I am writing on the road as we head for our next stop. I am writing this on Thursday as we head to Freiburg but I need to catch up first with what we have done since our last entry.

Tuesday 19 May 2009

200 miles more and our fourth country, Germany. We arrived on campsite and were blown away by the views. We had been trying to find the campsite recommended by the Brits but after Katie had kittens going down 15% gradients and the GPS not taking us to the right place we went for the nearest campsite. The location was amazing. In a valley with the Mosel flowing alongside us and on the extremely steep sides of the valley were thousands of vines , each section marked up with wine they would produce. We must be getting better at setting up as we managed to be all set up and have dinner ready in 50 mins! Mind you the sudden storm did encourage us to get the awning up quickly before it blew away!! The weather in the valley was strange. We couldn't see the weather coming in and on a couple of occasions we had a short lived storm only to have bright sunshine again 5 mins later. The campsite was interesting with lots of caravans that people had located on site permanently and so they had small gardens and all the home comforts. Lots of people were out mowing their small square of lawn. The Mosel offered lots of interest with all sorts of craft going up and down including massive barges often loaded to the gunnels with some unseen cargo. On the other side of the Mosel was another road which ran parallel to the river and alongside that a train track which Alex loved, especially counting the number of carriages on the freight trains... I think the highest was over 40 trucks with 3 engines to push the load along.