Now in Gebhardsagen where we lived near my grandparents. The house we lived in is shown above. The little road where my grandparents lived is choked full of cars. The forest I uses to play in is just the same and beautiful as ever. The village was extremely quiet as it was whit bank holiday Monday. Everything was closed and possibly because it was raining there were no people in the street. The village is now under the jurisdiction of the town of Salzgitter whic...

You win some you lose some! Aachen aka Aix-la-chapelle is an ancient imperial city. Famous as Charlemagne's residence and also as a popular Roman spa. The cathedral has amazing stained glass windows and an awful lot of gold. Quite different to most - almost oriental. I liked the city although the woman in the tourist office was amazingly offhand. How do they get the job if they don't like tourists asking for any information? Spent a peaceful night on a quiet...

Feeling tired and jaded I set sat nav for Calais although still 1000kms away. Saw it went via Koblenz so headed for there. Saw a campsite by a river and checked in. The river is called Au. The campsite was noisy and not well run. My friendly neighbours were a Dutch couple who each had a quad bike, one with a trailer. It seems so cumbersome to me. He was recovering from an operation after - you guessed it- a quad bike accident. Koblenz, well it was Sunday and pa...

My son Bernard had told me of a good spot to wild camp in Heidelberg just across the river next to a grassy area. It was pleasantly busy with people enjoying themselves relaxing or playing games. There was no loud music, although there was a skateboarder doing his thing on a ramp under the bridge until 12am. In the evening I walked about 2kms to the old town. Had a really delicious meal. Hard to describe but it was a local mushroom dish made into a huge ravioli...

Slept reasonably well in my dark pine forest. Let Sacha go for a wander while I fiddled around with the attachment for my IPhone/sat nav. The bits had fallen apart again and were stuck inside the cigarette lighter. After I fished them out while trying to avoid an electric shock it still wouldn't work. Got out the big fat inverter and at first that didn't work and after changing the fuse I found more bits left inside the other 12 volt connection at the back of th...