We have been driving west from the French-German border at Strasbourg, staying in municipal aires du camping and enjoying the French countryside. I set the GPS for no toll roads, since we aren’t in a hurry and want to see the countryside, and it’s great. You just have to get used to a 35 mph […]
After leaving the Hymer museum we drove south to Lake Constance, a glacial lake at the foot of the Swiss Alps. We stayed in a commercial campground there for a couple of days, which was inhabited entirely by Germans instead of the usual international mixture – summer's over, and it's just the locals now. I […]Read More
I'm overwhelmed with all the beautiful cars and RVs I saw yesterday at the Hymer Museum in Bad Waldsee, Germany, and wanted to show y'all some of the sights I have seen. The museum is located right across from the Hymer factory, and was Erwin Hymer's idea (and money), but it covers all manufacturers. You […]Read More
We said farewell to the Rhine and its castles and headed east from Wiesbaden on E45, the Interstate 40 of Europe. It was full of big trucks with German, Polish and Romanian tags. Driving was a bit harrowing as there were several spots where they were doing road construction (it's summer, the best time for […]Read More
From Denmark we are slowly working our way south along the western border of Germany, which means that we are following the Rhine valley. We first hit the Rhine near the small town of Xanten, near the border with the Netherlands, and were immediately impressed with 1) how big the Rhine is, and 2) how […]Read More
We finished up our eight day stay in Hamburg on the Elbe and got our 10,000 mile service at the Hamburg Sprinter dealer, which is what we were waiting around for anyway, and struck out north up the A23 motorway, which follows the North Sea coast up into the part of the Jutland Peninsula that […]Read More
OK, OK, I weakened. I've been going along fine for months without shore power, but Sharon was intent on sitting in one particular riverfront spot for days – under a tree, of course, so we got no solar – so I had to figure something out about the electricity. I can sit for a day […]Read More
After leaving Berlin we headed northeast, went into Poland far enough so that Sharon could bag another country but not far enough for me to run afoul of the vignette police, and then up to the Baltic shore for a couple of days of typical Baltic weather (rain). We then drove about 200 miles down […]Read More
For our RV stay in Berlin, we continued our urban assault vehicle approach we had started in Dresden – see what we could drive to in our Roadtrek campervan, rather than take public transportation. Accordingly, we didn't need a campground right on the metro system, and wanted something with a little atmosphere since we would […]Read More
Ok, we got lazy in Dresden. From our campground it was a bus ride into the tram system, so we'd have to change vehicles to get to the city center. We decided, why not just drive? What could we see from places we could get to in our Roadtrek? We waited until Sunday, when traffic […]Read More
We're getting good at this – to see these big European cities, we Google around for a campingplatz (campground) near public transportation with good security, and drive on in through the suburbs to this campground. We rest up a day or two, and then hop on the metro, tram or bus to go right down […]Read More
In our ongoing tour of Europe, we took Yan Seiner's advice on our trip through his native land and visited the small Czech town of Tabor, maybe 60 miles south of Prague. After driving around and exploring a bit of downtown, we headed for the closest convenient camping spot I had picked out on Google […]Read More
I don't exactly know why I settled on this town as a destination – Budapest to Prague was about eight hours on the small roads we were traveling, and I didn't want to go that far in one day, so I picked a town, Staatz, along the route, Googled “camping near Staatz, Austria”, and up […]Read More
Well, not really, the Iron Curtain fell 27 years ago, but Sharon has read way too many spy novels for her own good, and we wanted to go see the sights in Eastern Europe, so we took a deep breath and started out from Graz, Austria, headed for the Hungarian border. Like our spot in […]Read More
A couple of weeks ago we were finishing up in Vienna and the forecast looked ominous – hot weather down in the Danube valley. We needed to head for the hills if we were going to be comfortable. Intrepid Googling around and checking elevations of various camping places led me to the inescapable conclusion that […]Read More
One of the things we are realizing is that you need a combination of things to be able to tour a big city while RVing. You need a secure parking place near enough to the city to access public transportation, and the weather has to be cool enough so you can leave your pet for […]Read More
After three relaxing days at Nevegal in the Dolomites, it was time to head north. On Sharon's list of things to visit is Vienna, Austria, which was about 400 miles away. As is usually the case in the mountains, though, you can't get there from here, so back we went down the valley we had […]Read More
We were hot. There's been a heatwave all over southern Europe, and we were seeing what we could in our coast-to-coast run across Italy, but we needed a break from the weather, and the crowds. The difference in population density between Europe and our usual haunts out on the Pacific Coast Highway or up in […]Read More
We had driven down Italy's west coast as far as Pisa, and were sitting in a Mediterranean-front commercial campground, figuring out what to do. Sharon wanted to see Florence, but the countryside was in the grips of a heatwave, with highs inland in the 90s, so we weren't going to sit around and tour the […]Read More
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