Travelling by roof tent truck

Here I am, sitting in the truck on my way back to Hamburg, I can see the alps in front of me and soon I will be over the Brenner pass - time to review.

I've always liked road trips 🛣️ 🚒 - this was one of them again.

I often travel around the area with my car and my tent, sometimes I skip the car and use public transport and stay in hostels or airbnbs. This time I‘ve once more been on the road with the four-wheel truck.

This truck is different compared to our own truck. When we are traveling with our own Merkur (Magirus Deutz) 🚒 called „Töffi“, we sleep in the box body: inside, because it is a mobile home: converted.

When I travel with the truck called „Adele“ or her sister „Bärbel“, I sleep in the roof tent ⛺️, because we are often up to 10 people, thus the body is not big enough for everybody to sleep and comfortably sit.

So this time I'm traveling with Adele, it's a Mercedes Benz 1222 and we are 8 people.

Life with Adele mostly takes place outside, because the amount of comfortable seats leave little room for expansion. We have seating for over 20 people, but since we're usually no more than 10 people, I have enough room to spread out on 2 seats and put my stuff in the baskets above my seat.

There are two parts of the box body: the front part, where there are only seats, the refrigerator, the heater, the guitar and the first aid kit - and the back part: some sort of shed, where we store the benches, tables, the dry food, fruit, vegetables, kitchen utilities and tools. Both have separate doors.

So we set up tables and benches, a tarpaulin against the sun or rain and cook on the stool stoves outside. The 12 tents are opened on the roof for sleeping, which takes only a few minutes and offers a lot of space.

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