Today marked the end of our two year adventure. We packed up the caravan for the last time for a while and made our way from Ypres to catch our Eurotunnel train back to the UK.
Towing Kilometres – Today: 98 Cumulative: 36,690
Our base for the visit to Luxembourg was Camping Krounebierg. The site is tiered on a sloping hillside and is well laid out. We had reserved a place in advance and on arrival we were allocated an impossibly narrow and sloping pitch requiring a return to reception to request a change. The second pitch was much larger in size and flat.
Ray had secretly made plans with one of our boys, Richard, to pop over to Luxembourg for the weekend and surprise me on our arrival at the campsite yesterday and his planned worked! I was suitably shocked 😉
Richard was staying in a little boutique hotel, the nearest one he could find to our campsite and we enjoyed a great meal with him last night and even decided to treat ourselves to an overnight stop too! Continue reading Luxembourg City
We hadn’t realised before we reached Augsburg the other day, that we were on the Romantic Road or Romantisch Straße, as it is signposted in Germany.
After a little research on the wonder web we had learned more about this scenic/theme/tourist route. Unbeknown to us we had actually been quite close when we were visiting Oberammergau & Linderhof Palace last year as well as when we passed the hilltop castle of Harburg on Wednesday!
Right on our doorstep was the delightful medieval old town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, another popular stop for visitors on the Romantic Road. The town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber sits in the Tauber Valley and was once a free imperial town and today is renowned for its well preserved old town walls, numerous gatehouses, towers and many historic landmarks. Continue reading Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Franconia, Bavaria