Roermond On the way out of Roermond we stopped at the Kapel In ‘T Zand cemetery, a Catholic cemetery with small Protestant and Jewish partitions. In this cemetery are the graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together. J.W.C van Gorcum, colonel of the Dutch Cavalry … Read more
It took longer than expected to get to the stellplatz in Hamburg on Wednesday because some numpty (me) miskeyed the co-ordinates into the satnav. Fortunately it didn’t take us too far out of our way and we parked up at about 13:30. There was a bus stop right by the stellplatz, and at the end … Read more
Another Hanseatic town, Lüneburg’s fortune was made on a salt deposit lying close beneath the surface of the Altstadt, with salt being produced for over 1,000 years right up until 1980. The journey took a little longer than it ought to have, again because of roadworks. One thing we’ve noticed is that the Germans aren’t … Read more
It should only have taken half an hour to drive to Schwerin, but the main road was closed for resurfacing and with the diversion it took an hour. The main attraction in Schwerin is the picturesque Schloss, or castle, with its moat and 50 hectacre baroque gardens. There are four stellplätze in Schwerin, and the … Read more
We arrived at the Wismar stellplatz at around 10:30 yesterday and grabbed one of the last remaining places. If I had €1 for every van that turned around in front of us and drove back out, I’d have at least €27! As the stellplatz was just a short walk from the Altstadt, we decided that … Read more
Lübeck is a city that I’ve been looking forward to visiting for a long time. Full of history, it’s one of the main cities of the Hanseatic League, the trade association which was prominent between the 13th and 16th centuries. The Hanseatic League had a trading post in the City of London back in the … Read more
We made an early start to get to Schleswig not because it’s a long way from Friedrichstadt, but we’d read on Camper Contact that the stellplatz at the marina was really popular, filling up by early afternoon. Sure enough, there were very few spots left when we arrived before midday, and we bagged a decent … Read more
When we were in the tourist information at Husum, Carol picked up a leaflet about the campsites and stellplätze in the area, and in it was a stellplatz at a really pretty looking old town called Friedrichstadt, so we opted to go there before visiting our next planned stop at Schleswig. Just nine miles from … Read more
Our final stop in Denmark (and Scandinavia) was at Tønder, an old town just a few kilometres from the border with Germany. We had difficulty finding a parking spot in Tønder as it’s their annual festival is next week, so the car park we’d earmarked was closed and all of the surrounding streets had ‘No … Read more
As we were preparing to leave Dresden yesterday, two massive police water cannon arrived and parked up. It turned out that they were there for the Dynamo Dresden game against FC Nürnburg, so maybe it’s a good job I didn’t get a ticket! (I checked later and the game sounds like it was a rather … Read more