MANY APOLOGIES FOR THE DELAY IN THIS POST – DUE TO AN IT
PROBLEM CALLED ‘NEILITITIS’! A CASE OF FAR TOO MANY BUTTONS FOR SO FEW BRAIN
CELLS, GIVE ME NUTS AND BOLTS ANYDAY.
Monday 18 Jun: ‘R’ Day (Reminisce). With so much covered on
the Sunday we decided to have a rest day and relive some of our memories,
strange how the mind tends to retain mainly good experiences and forgets bad
ones. We had a great time, many laughs and some poignant memories over a bottle
or two of wine and then put them back into the memory cells. A good ‘sunny
spells’ day with a very nice 25C so the two girls managed to do a bit of
sunbathing.
Tuesday 19 Jun: Back to ‘today time’ with some admin and
cleaning duties – a reality injection. Blitzed the RV inside and out, got the
previous blog done, phoned both mothers and answered some emails, all well in
time before the football (not that it was that exciting, at least we qualified).
Linda further tested her favourite RV necessity – the washing machine (those
who know her will understand that she cannot be without one or an iron!), good
job it was dry and sunny with 22C for drying the clothes.
Wednesday 20 Jun: Just had to do a visit to the successor to
the old Tank School in Musterlager, now called the Deutsches Panzer Museum –
well worth a visit and even Linda enjoyed it. They have collect a vast array of
mainly east and west German tanks from the 2nd WW (AV7) up to today (Leopard 2),
presenting them very well and making the whole display very interesting. Good choice to visit an inside
attraction as it was dull and rainy – 19C.
Thursday 21 Jun: Neil got to go golfing again – very nice
championship course which was in excellent condition and was most enjoyable,
he even managed to scrape a 91 on a par 71 course so not too bad for first time out
on the course, his partner was a bit wooden though. Good weather, for golf - very sunny and 24C. Linda got to enjoy some time to herself (me,
myself & I) – not, she did the washing and ironing (again) just to make
Neil feel guilty. Most of the other site residents are now well known to us so
a bit of socialising was the order of the afternoon/evening and a pleasant but
language taxing time was spent swapping experiences and nation bashing (grass
looking greener).
Friday 22 Jun: Lazy day called for – do not want to tire
ourselves out yet. Linda and Daisy decided to be on ‘watch’ whilst Neil further
investigated/photographed the site for an amendment for the Big Pitch Guide (a
book with information in it on camping sites that accept ‘big boys toys’).
Finished the day with a meal in the gasthaus and some pleasant, but strange
unknown drinks compliments of Malte and Katarina of Roders Park – lovely
evening that reinforced our opinion that they really are excellent hosts and
the site is well worth a visit. Bit of a mixture weather wise today, sun, wind
and showers with 23C.
Saturday 23 Jun: Trouble with eating and drinking one has to
restock so off on another shopping trip for fresh rations and Neil did need a
few things for the RV and trailer – minor repairs. Got all needed items and
found the German B&Q equivalent which was great and had the edge on our
British counterpart – a bit cheaper as well. Had a pleasant interlude with one
of our Dutch neighbours who desperately wanted to see the inside of the RV, she
called it a ‘house on wheels’ and was taken with the washing machine (must be
woman thing). Good weather day again, sunny with a bit of a breeze but 22C so a
good long ‘Daisy’ walk was called for and we revisited the lake.
Sunday 24 Jun: The good weather god decided to dessert us on
our 1 month on the road anniversary and it ‘bucketed’ it down! What a day to visit Hamburg, needless to say
we retained our stiff British upper lip and dragged the 3 of ourselves around
Hamburg in the pouring rain. We did find some interesting (?) places open on the Reeperbahn but
headed for the very impressive Town Hall and St Michaelis Church amongst others instead. After dashing from place to place we did get to see
all of the places we needed to see and 3 drowned rats returned to the car for
the trip back to Soltau.
Monday 25 Jun: Time to shake out and get ready for
tomorrow’s move, so packed up all the awning and outer items. Just had to use
the doggy shower room again before leaving – much to Daisy’s disgust however
she now smells a lot better, just us to sort out now. Linda did a final shop
just to prevent us having to do without essentials like paprika crisps,
pretzels etc. Another dull, windy and wet day with only 17C.
Still thoroughly enjoying ourselves with no pressure, or stress - however it makes one wonder how much WORK has to answer for.
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