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Last stop on the trip just into Holland. We arrived at an ACSI site but the receptionist told us it was full. At first I didn't believe her but she rang another campsite a hundred yards down the road and they had room for us. Its a very nice site for relaxing. Chickens and goats and nice grass...
We only had a couple of days left now. On the way to Rotterdam is Ahrweiler. The place is still recovering from flooding in 2021 which killed 188 people.
The campsite is gone and has been replaced with a Stellplatz just outside the city walls. The bridge was washed away and a temporary one is...
After leaving at 9am and travelling up the Romantic Strasse we got to Dinksbuhl 20 mins later. There are two aires and we chose the one to the north. We got a decent spot and there were four other Brits on as well. The first time we had seen Brits since leaving Germany weeks before. The solar...
A short trip down the road is Nordlingen, a beautiful walled town in Bavaria. The day we arrived was a bank holiday and I expected the aire to be rammed but there were quite a few places. Mind you we got there at 10:30am. We got a top spot under a big tree so we had shade all day. Over 30C...
I wanted to visit the south German towns of Dinksbuhl and Nordlingen and picked Amberg as it was about half way. There is a free aire just outside the town and you can stay for a couple of days. I had picked Amberg out of thin air but what a nice find.
Classed as a beer town by the tourist...
Close to the German border is the small spa town of Marianske Lazne. We found a nice (cheap) campsite about a mile away. It was getting full and they had a rally in the back field. As we didn't need electric we went on another empty field. Again we just wanted to chill as it was now very hot...
We had already booked the brewery tour at Pilsner Urqell the day before leaving the last site. The tour gets booked up a few days in advance and to get on the english speaking tour you need to book at least two days before, more in peak season.
We had booked it for Thursday and after driving...
We were looking to relax with some bottles of Bernard beer we picked up in the local Kaufland and found a nice Dutch campsite so thought we would have a look. Not far away was Trebic that had good reviews and we had time to have a visit as it was only a few miles out of our way.
Not a great deal...
Chucked it down with rain on the way to Telc. We stayed on the aire to the north of the town, about £6 for 24 hours. Went in for a mooch and had a dark Budvar in the "square".
Rain was threatening so we headed back closer to the van and went to the brewery next door to the parking.
Pansky...
I had read that Brno is the second city of the Czech Republic with lots of beautiful buildings. There ar a couple of aires a tram ride away from the town but I had found a campsite about 20 miles out of Brno on the river. Here there was the choice of getting to Brno via a river boat taxi and...
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Into Slovakia and we stopped at a traditional folk village painted up with designs. We was going to a folk museum but it was shut on Mondays, we will go tomorrow. Parking was by SMS but it would not accept our number. The signs were quite threatening and we nearly left but the woman in...
A few miles from the campsite and 1000m up is a Wallachian ski resort with beautiful old buildings.
We left the Roznov campsite without a plan regarding Slovakia but I wanted to see the old village of Pustevny. We had walked past the tourist village or open air museum at Roznov and were a little...
Another weekend and we found an ACSI site for £20 P/n that had two rallies going on. One was a scooter rally with a stage so we quite fancied that. We needed to do some washing etc so it seemed a good place. The town looked ok and it had a brewery.
When we got there there was a scooter rally but...
There are not many Camping options around Olomouc. We had not brought our electric bikes as when planning I had seen a lack of cycle lanes and Angela is not happy in busy traffic with lunatics about (apart from me, even then she tolerates me).
Olomouc town looked really nice so we picked the...
A couple of hours down the road is the town of Litomysl. It has a UNESCO listed castle and a big square. The only campsite within walking distance is Autocamp Primator half a mile away from the town. No one was at the reception but there was a phone number to ring. We rang and someone told us to...
Kutna Hora was among the largest cities in the world in the 15th century according to the guide books. Its wealth came from Silver mines some of which you can still go down and there are mining museums in the town.
Sedlec Ossuary just outside is where everyone was buried until they ran out of...
We travelled down the Elbe to Melnik. I had planned to go to Letomerice and Terezin but when Angela found out Terezin was a Nazi camp she wouldn't go. We do find it difficult to travel around sites where thousands of people were exterminated, We have done Oradour sur Glane in France but it was...
So we have finally made it to Czechia but the locals don't like the word Czechia as the government changed it. They still prefer Czech Republic.
Just over the border is Hřensko which we thought was worth a look. It is full of "duty free" shops and as you drive down they wave you into parking...
As we were quite close we had to have a visit to Colditz.
There is a newish museum at the castle where they give you interactive iPads that you walk around with and it gives you all the information.
For 10 euro it was very good. The castle has been a private residence, a resort for nobility, a...
Angela likes German wine so we stopped at Freyburg which is inbetween Erfurt and Leipzig. There is a posh looking stelplatz on the edge of the town but we stayed at a free one on the otherside. You have to pay local tax which you get from the local tourist office. It's only 2euro and they give...
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