Our original plan was to visit a couple of cities in Germany as we headed down to Italy. What actually happened was something more along the lines of a race against the weather.
Our first planned stop, Koblenz, was passed right by, as it was raining buckets. We ended up finally crawling into a campsite in Manheim at about 10 p.m. It was right on the Rhine, and we fell into exhausted sleep listening to German dance music from the cantina at the end of the campgrounds.
This is the view from just outside our camper early the next morning. Speiky got a quick swim in, and then we headed back out to our next stop, which was supposed to be Stuttgart. We'd come so far the previous day, however, that we skipped it and went straight on to Munich. Again, not much in the way of photos, since I was pretty much confined to shooting from the passenger seat window. But I took some goofy shots just to pass the time.
The traffic was horrific all the way through Germany. There is some extensive roadwork being done all over the country, it seems, and we spent waay too much time sitting still. Also the weather was still chasing us. When we finally arrived in Munich, it began to pour almost immediately.
Our biggest new toy this trip was the TomTom, and for the most part, it was a wonder and a joy. Every now and then, however, it seemed to get confused, such as when we were among tall trees or buildings. We spent over an hour trying to locate a campsite in Munich because "Tom" kept getting confused and sending us off into non-existent left turns.
Up early again the next morning, we hit yet more city traffic.
One of the more peculiar things we passed on our way out was a huge cemetery, the Waldfriedhof, right in the middle of the city. And across the busy city streets, lots of office buildings with stonemasons on the ground floor of the buildings, with displays of tombstones of every imaginable design right on the street. It was creepy in a very efficient sort of way. I didn't manage to get any photos of them, alas, as I was on the cemetery side of the road. I was able to get glimpses of something unusual over the tops of the walls and between the gaps in the gates - wooden grave markers. They looked a little like two-dimensional birdhouses.
We finally made it out of town, and then on to Austria and the Alps. I'll post that one next. I promise, it gets more interesting and more beautiful from here on out. :c)
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