July 21st. 7:30 a.m. and the construction workers start to make noise above our room. We do not need anything for breakfast, Pablo receives a small coffee as an apology for the noise when he checks out. In 5 minutes, we will be at the border. As always, there are not many cars today. It is guarded, but the passports are of no interest to the border, he prefers to investigate the trunk to make sure that we only have camping gear with us. As an info: We could load 1200 kg. Suppose that these 1.2 tons were not camping material .... we could be rich .... but this wealth would also have big consequences, which I do not want to discuss further. 😉
While driving, I get a message on Facebook. A former school colleague who attended the French course with us in Montreal 22 years ago is this afternoon at Seewalchen at the lake beach. This is not far where we transit and so we decide to spend lunch and the afternoon with her at the lake. We arrive at the parking lot and it is full. She calls and we go to see her mother and daughter at the club in Weyregg at Attersee. There, we picnic and enjoy a cooling off. At the end of the afternoon, after many conversations and memories of the 1998 time in Montreal, we say goodbye and we continue to Passau, where we have booked our hotel. The border with Germany had to be crossed at 30km / h on the highway, but nobody was checking.
We arrive at the hotel at 7 p.m. We nest in. However, Pablo thinks the evening is still so beautiful and so we get on the bus to visit Passau. We buy a real German meal: Turkish doner kebab. We circle the small, beautiful city along the rivers once and then take the bus back to the hotel, where we go to sleep at 11 p.m.
We arrive at the hotel at 7 p.m. We nest in. However, Pablo thinks the evening is still so beautiful and so we get on the bus to visit Passau. We buy a real German meal: Turkish doner kebab. We circle the small, beautiful city along the rivers once and then take the bus back to the hotel, where we go to sleep at 11 p.m.
July 22nd. Breakfast is served on the way. Today we drive to our next overnight stay, which is in Bisingen. We arrive at 4 p.m. and are tired. We are happy to stay here 3 nights. Relaxing and resting is the order of the day.
July 23rd. Today we are visiting Tuttlingen, why? In the last few years, we have received visits from a very lovable, young man several times via couchsurfing. Daniel came to Biel mostly on business and today we are visiting him and his wife once in Tuttlingen. Dinner and a city tour are on the list of the day. Before that, we circle around Tuttlingen downtown for ourselves, also to get hold of souvenirs. The dinner tastes good, and before the dessert is served, they show us the local mountain and a castle ruin, where we get a nice overview of Tuttlingen. After dessert, we leave at 11 p.m., because we need another hour to get to the apartment.
July 24th resting!
July 25th. We will pack everything together, because today we are off to France. This morning we visit a well-preserved Roman villa (yes children, they were even here a long time ago). Just before the French border, we stop again in Germany to “enjoy” another typical German specialty: Currywurst.
Sometime in the early afternoon we cross the border smoothly (no border guards or barriers).
Sometime in the early afternoon we cross the border smoothly (no border guards or barriers).
