Oktoberfest is sadly over, and the city is returning to normal. The campground, too. It started to clear out Sunday, when a lot of people left to drive or fly back to Berlin or Rome or London. The festival ended Sunday night, and by Monday evening, there were only a handful of tents left. By […]

Oktoberfest started September 19th and we were anxious to make it to Munich to catch the festivities before they finished October 5th. We arrived Thursday night, in time for the last couple of days. Talk about a party! Each year, this most famous of all beerfests welcomes 6.5 million party-goers and beer drinkers from all […]

We took a ferry across the lake to Meersburg the following day. It rained and rained – a cold, driving rain. We looked for a spot to set up camp for the night, to no avail. The towns were too close together – there wasn’t a patch of field or woods between them. We kept […]

After breakfasting, we headed towards Lake Constance and were thrilled to find that the first part, at least, was down, down, down. It seemed to be in compensation for the day before, which was filled with unending hills. In fact, we had somehow managed, all day long, to remain between 22-23 kms. from Constance. We […]

As we crossed the Rhine into Germany, I had the impression that, all of a sudden, everything was a little bit foreign. It was the language, of course. We could hear boaters passing, all speaking German. It was a bit disconcerting, thinking that each time we pass a new border we’d have to get used […]