Monday, 12th October, 1981 rain and cold
Arose tired but decided to move on. It wasn't a very nice camping area. John and Sean wanted to see the
Winter is definitely here - it is
cold, windy and wet. No headaches
inherited from p.m. This town is oozing
in Mercedes. Pa Marsden would die to see
his beloved of Mercedes here amongst every other car. We parked in a place where we were the only
odd one out. The boys enjoyed the museum
where they saw the very first car invented.
It hasn't stopped raining. We
took off towards Heidelberg -found a supermarket - a huge conglomerate way out in
the never never. Restocked the larder, bought some wool for Rae to knit us all warm socks, and for me to crochet Sean
a rug. Then off on the road again where
not long after we ran into a traffic jam, so decided to go back and get petrol
and take the autobahn to Neckerzimmer, where we could divert to
Tuesday, 13th October, 1981 fine and cold
Well, we all slept fairly well at Neckerzimmer outside the
camping area. The rain had gone and the
sun was out when we moved towards
It is constructed of red sandstone and boasts architectural
knowledge from Gothic to High Renaissance.
We spent quite a few hours wandering about the gardens and
exterior. The males went down to inspect
the wine vat. We had a drink in the
cafe, was very cheap, and then walked down to the old town again. A slow amble around the town walk, showed us
many old buildings.
Wednesday, 14 October, 1981
Awoke to a full car park and a wet bed.
On the road again, said goodbye to the beautiful Heidelberg
Schloss and on our way to look for a laundromat. It is a week since we have used a laundromat
and it is raining again. Life can be
miserable with no clean clothes and wet inside.
We stopped at
We stopped at Landau for lunch, people were friendly. John stopped right outside a bakery and we couldn't
resist their pastries. On then through small
villages to Pirmesens where John did a memory lane walk, here 16 years ago he
was escorted out of town by both the
It had started to rain and so on we drove to
Zweibrucken where once again no laundromat.
A lady at dry cleaners told Sandra there was one at the airbase, so John
drove up in the pouring rain to the gate - explained our proble. The guards gave us
the pass and in we went - a lovely warm Laundrette with everything one wanted - but
only operated on American coins so John went to find an exchange and came back with
the required coins and were just going to start the machines when in came the
cavalry. I mean police. Can't use this shouldn't be here etc. Sandra told them the truth - they let us do the
washing and drying - whilst the machines worked we had out to sit in the
van. Then down the hill to a free
park. It was still raining.
Sean's birthday tomorrow and he wants a McDonald's
Thursday 15 October, 1981 Sean is 14 still raining
Awoke to rain again - it had seeped in through vent on to my bed. We dressed and John drove to the station for the toilets. Sean is 14 today - loved his presents - a platter of cheese plus 50 deutsche marks from Sandra, pen set from Rae and bubblegum plus 10 deutsche marks from me.
It is still raining as we head for
Arrived in
“Is there a McDonald's in town"? He must have had strange thoughts about these
tourists.
Anyway there was no Maccas so we had to content ourselves with Wimpy
bar food. And it was very nice. Took all of our Belgian francs 2.25 cents to
the Belgian franc - legal tender here, along with
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Friday, 16th October, 1981 fine and cold
We got up and aired the van and tried to dry the mattress -
the sun was shining so we aired the double mattress. Then off to see lovely
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Two viaducts plus a big Red bridge connect the opposite sides
of town. Below in the gorge are beautiful
gardens. Castle casements stand in the
gorge.
Sean and John went in to the underground in the bowels of
the earth through the tunnels where Roman soldiers and later Austrians walked
whilst the battle was progressing above.
It is essentially a Roman Catholic country. It is ruled by a constitutional
monarchy - Grand Duke Jean and a Cabinet of 11 ministers. We were taken on a city walk by our often
absent-minded but illustrious guide.
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By the time we had seen General Patton's head-quarters at the
end of the walk, we were hungry and exhausted.
John shouted us lunch at a French restaurant. The meal was huge and delicious, but the
waitress was quite rude. I think we
frighten off some people. She could
speak reasonable English, but was too hasty. Still we laughed a lot and liked our
We had a long wait for the bus back to camp.
John and Sean walked the 3 miles back and just beat us by three
minutes. Reorganised the van and into
bed, where Sean was awake all night with stomach cramps.
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