Everything gets a bit sad now. Lynn wasn't feeling too good. As we left the pool from the night before, the car was sluggish when we pulled away. We climbed the hill slowly, as usual, but when we reached the summit, Lynn didn't change up into 3rd and we were revving pretty high. I realised that something was wrong with the gears, and so we pulled over try and ascertain what was happening. She reversed ok and went into neutral, but when we accelerated it was slow...

There wasn't even a sign saying that we'd left Belgium and entered Germany. But all of a sudden we were climbing hills and driving down the sides of valleys and witnessed some properly breathtaking views. Little did we know, though, that these hills were..... Well, more on that later I suppose. Anyway, we were headed for a Camperstop that was in the field behind a swimming pool, and the Camperstop book, we could see had a big yellow slide. When we arrived we went...