I haven't been reporting on our current trip as my phone has been playing up but it's all sorted now - also haven't taken any pics aas yet. We left home in Glos on Saturday and had a night at The Drumm Inn campsite a few miles from the tunnel terminal - we've stayed there before and it's always been an OK stop at £26 that's less than 10 minutes from tunnel. We caught the 0930 train to Calais and on arrival hit the autoroute for the run to Verdun, stopping at Camping Le Breuil - that had been our intention as Verdun is a really nice town with a lot of bars and eateries to choose from but the wether conspired against us with torrential rain meaning that we stayed at the site and ate in their restaurant which was actually pretty good. Leaving the next morning, we got as far as Camping Bella Augusta on the outskirts of Augsburg, Germany. Again, we've been there before and it's a good site with top drawer sanitary facilities. It's also next to a large lake with a really good beer garden which was closed for some reason (possibly the weather and their lack of outdoor space!) - a p[ity really as they had a stein of Paulaner with my name on it. In the end, we had passable pizzas and beer in the on-site trattoria.. It peed down again for most of the night but had cleared by the time we woke up this morning. We set off again this morning for a longish drive past Munich and across Austria and are now campe at Camping Ferien am Walde near Ledenitzn having been turned away from a site a few Km away which was full due to what they reckon is the largest meeting of Harley Davison owners in Europe happening this week and into the weekend. Luckily they fitted us into the corner of a field at this site but it's likely to be choice as the week goes on. I can well believe the brags about the size of the meet as there seems (literally) to be thousands of the buggers around. My wife was a bit concerned about even staying in the area where so many bikers were but I assured her we would be OK as they were most likely to all be middle aged accountants, dentists and doctors. Indeed, after we had sorted out the pitch, I commplimented our neighbour on his bike and after further conversation discovered that he was the MD of a chemical company near Munich! That said, there already seem to be a few casualties in the bar so I dread to think what it will be like by about 2300. Being partially deaf and having earplugs definitely has it's advantages!
We're moving onto Slovenia tomorrow but will probably drive on through to Croatia and spend a couple of days in Ljubjana on the way home.