Down the Loire Valley and South to Perigueux
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, …
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West Across the Rhine and Into France
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 …
Hymer Museum – Part One
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 …
Campskunk’s Nuremberg Visit
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 …
Following the Rhine Upstream
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 …
Campskunk and Sharon Go North Into Denmark
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 …
Campskunk Plugs In – In Europe!
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 …
Campskunk and Sharon RV to Hamburg
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 …
Campskunk and Sharon Stay at the Berlin Camping Club
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 …
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Campskunk and Sharon Drive their RV in Downtown Dresden
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. …
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Campskunk and Sharon Tour Prague
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 …
Campskunk and Sharon Encounter a Unique Czech Campground
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 …
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Campskunk in Europe: Relaxing in Poysdorf
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 …
Campskunk and Sharon Go Behind the Iron Curtain
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 …
Up in the Alps, Cooling Off
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 …
Campskunk and Sharon (and Fiona) Tour Vienna via RV
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 …
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Campskunk’s Drive Up Into Austria
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 …
Campskunk and Sharon’s Italian Alps RV Adventure
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 …
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Campskunk’s Coast to Coast Run Across Italy
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 …