Author: John Martin

  • Day 13 – Quiet Ride to Bühl

    Day 13 – Quiet Ride to Bühl

    Post Views: 26 We hadn’t got much planned today as we’d done a bit of exploring by bus yesterday and were planning to do one of the Black Forest key attractions, a water-fall, as we head out tomorrow. So we decided to take a bike ride into Bühl, about 12km away. We chose a fairly…

  • Day 12 – Mummelsee and Baden Baden

    Day 12 – Mummelsee and Baden Baden

    Post Views: 49 So we’re camping on the edge of the Black Forest and we’ve got a few days here. We also got given a public transport pass as part of the campsite fee, so we decided to use the bus system and go and have a look at Baden Baden. It turns out that…

  • Day 11 – Trier to The Black Forest

    Day 11 – Trier to The Black Forest

    Post Views: 75 Today was another travel day, about 220km from Trier to Achern… on the West side of the Black Forest. It was a quick pack-up today as we hadn’t set everything up for just one night. We enjoyed the campsite and the husband and wife that ran it… at least their relationship! The…

  • Supplementary Q&A #1

    Supplementary Q&A #1

    Post Views: 39 I’ve had a few questions come in after people have read the blog, so in the spirit of this blog (that’s “over sharing” in case you missed it) here’s the questions, and then the answers – if you’re a pictures person then this post isn’t for you! 🤣 That’s enough for now,…

  • Day 10 – Gorges du Loup & Trier

    Day 10 – Gorges du Loup & Trier

    Post Views: 35 Day 10 already! I’ve had a few questions come in, mostly via WhatsApp… seeing as the website comments thing doesn’t seem to work for everyone! So if you want to have a look at answers to the first Q&A post, then look here. After a night of rain and thunderstorms we woke…