Day 18 - Mountains and Castles

Travel day again today and we are starting to get a good routine down of packing up the van, take Marla for a good stretch of the legs and lots of wee wees, then doing the final van bits (normally cleaning the loo and emptying the grey waste), then heading off. This morning we took advantage of an automated cleaning station for our toilet cassette, for a few euros of course. One of the other campers was absolutely fascinated and stayed to watch the whole show. Turned out the machine was a bit mean and toilet shamed us (see photo!). We headed straight to the closest petrol station with LPG to top up our tank, and our adapter nozzle worked perfectly! We now have an almost full tank, it wouldn’t let us fill it completely, no idea why not.
Charlie also bought us some petrol station snackies of crisps and pretzels. They pretzels came in handy as we got caught in a bit of a traffic jam and had no where to stop when midday rolled around, and our tummies started to rumble. They were surprisingly delicious. We did manage to stop a while later in a random petrol station car park to have our packed lunch and let Marla out for a bit. Back on the road and the scenery sure is changing. We are now in the land of mountains and castles. It’s absolutely beautiful. We can see Neuschwanstein Castle from our new campsite and pitch. We are also on the shore of the Forggensee reservoir, which is the fifth-largest lake in Bavaria and the largest reservoir in Germany by area.
Dinner tonight was a simple fare of pesto pasta and flageolet beans, the on site restaurant looks lovely but we weren’t that hungry so we’ll save that for another night.Leggi altro