Bad Bentheim - 27 July 2018

Geoff 

Another hot driving day but kept cool inside by air con and a wetted bandana around my neck.

We shopped for a few essentials at a nearby Netto. Here we experienced our disaster of the day.  I put a carton of cheap red wine in the cupboard over the cab. Unfortunately, I failed to realise that the metal strut might collide with said carton when the cupboard was closed. Consequently, I was immediately battling with an influx of red wine over the fabric around the cupboard and the driver's seat and various other places. We did the best we could to soak it up and a proper cleaning job will have to wait until we get home. 

Finding our sliproad on to the A7 closed (why didn't the satnav know?), Amanda navigated us on to it by another route. At least we found somewhere to refuel nearby at €1.24 a litre, compared with €1.51 on the motorway later on. 

It was then just keeping going on the motorway with just a couple of stops. The roadworks around both Hamburg and Bremen were extensive but always moving. So, here we are at the stellplatz at Bad Bentheim. Not many other vans here, compared to our previous visit two years ago. 

There is a Lidl just around the corner where we shall stock up with German wine and beer to take home. 

Amanda

Another driving day, this time right the way across Germany. Our plan to take things slowly and calmly in the heat went rather awry when we discovered just how far a litre of red wine from a carton which burst in the process of being stowed away over the cab could actually spread  over light coloured camper fittings, carpets and upholstery! Oh well, things could only get better, and the rest of the travelling was Ok. Heavy traffic and delays around Hamburg and Bremen, but we were expecting them. 

We are back at the Bad Bentheim site in the castle car park which so impressed us two years ago, with very few others here. We enjoyed a walk in the adjoining park, around a lake, after supper. Research tells me that it is still 27 degrees outside here, at almost midnight. The light breeze which helped a bit has dropped and it is now quite still. We are in no hurry to go to bed!