Now this was a good choice and probably the place we've enjoyed most, certainly in Germany. Maybe we are just shallow people as this is a very touristy part of the country but it does really have a holiday atmosphere - and of course it is helped by the sun shining. The Mosel valley is a big part of Germany's wine production - we are actually camping in a vineyard at the moment, now is that civilised or what? -and every other building is a WineStube or WineGut w...

After we left Edersee, in the rain again amazingly, we decided to have one more day on the fairy tale road to see what it brought. The trail was supposed to take us through Red Riding Hood's home village, where Snow White lived with the dwarfs and what I was really looking forward to - the home of Garden Gnome manufacturing! In fact we saw some pretty villages but not much in the way of fairy tale stuff and not enough Gnomes at all! And as the rain didn't...

Today we left the rainy Harz mountains behind and rejoined the fairy tale road. We saw "Rapunzal's tower" we think. Not quite how I'd expected it but nice all the same - see photo! We have a bit of a problem trying to make sure we're seeing what we think we are as everything is in German and they're not very sympathetic to English speakers! So sometimes we might just be making it up, but we're happy! The drive down was lovely -ïÂ...

Well you can say this for Germany - they know how to do rain!. Fantastic storm in Hameln overnight. We watched the lightening storm through our bedroon ceiling window and I had visions of the French campsite a couple of years ago where all the caravans got washed away - though as we weren't on a hill it wasn't very likely but I do like to dramatise. The next day the rain continued so we upped sticks and headed here to Goslar in the Harz mountains which I'd been t...

Arrived in Germany from Denmark 3 days ago and spent the last 2 nights in Bremen, South West of Hamburg. Bremen is a nice old city with lots of medieval buildings and little narrow streets. And some nice Bier Kellers which seemed to be G's main interest! Our first evening we went out to a bar near the campsite and got talking to a mature gentleman - I was going to say old git but then thought Hampshireman might be reading this! - who wanted to buy us som...