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Strangely enough, as I write this we're back in France.Only a short hop from the south of Luxembourg, but France nevertheless.It's weird, but the surrounds seem so familiar again and I've genuinely missed it.A major benefit of knowing the lay of the land is that we can zone straight in to the hotels that we know and love, and that will also give us free Wifi - something which Germany was phenomenally bad at, hence the slower updates to the site.
After leaving Munich following the usual enjoyable stay (That was our third time there) we moved on to Stuttgart.This was another enjoyable place with a really large shopping area and I'm guessing some sort of persuasive drug in the air.Never before (or again I think) will I spend so much money on books.This wasn't the collected works of Hemmingway or anything, but we were snapping up anything in the English language whilst we could.Strangely most of the books here are written in German.....
Other major towns visited included Nurnburg and Frankfurt, although the towns are starting to look fairly similar to each other and in a fairly industrial way too.I knew Germany was fairly industrious, some of my favourite cars are German, but you are as likely to see a sign for an industrial site here as you are one with a direction on it.
Just when we were starting to despair we hit Germany's wine region.It's great to see all those vines at a much later stage than the ones we saw in France, although this time we weren't 100% sure who the producers were and what type of grapes they were growing.In the middle of it all was the lovely little town of Wurzburg, which has a lovely centre based around a bridge overlooked by a castle and it was all fairly reminiscent of the Charles Bridge in Prague.By this point the weather was scorching and we made the most of it by camping for a few days - I actually had to get out of the tent at 8 in the morning due to the heat! It also helped that this campsite was really well equipped and had cooking facilities, a wide-screen TV and a swimming pool!
One stop we had to make was the amusingly titled town of 'Worms'.The town was OK, but there were no worms to be found.Shame really.It was then on to Hiedelberg which brings us pretty much up to date with our stopover tonight.Tomorrow sees us going through Luxembourg which will probably not take too long to do. It's only a small place at the best of times and a travel web site that we have consulted opens with the line "Luxembourg does not offer the tourist much to see and do".There you go....
Following that we're in Belgium and the web site is much more optimistic.Judging by the scales of our map we should be able to base centrally and work outwards in all directions.Jo generally in the direction of the Belgian Chocolate I guess.
Only a few weeks to go now!
See you soon
Darren & Jo
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