One of the reasons we were back in Central Europe was our son, who was getting his master degree at the University of Utrecht. Together with Cordy’s parents, we travelled with our respective campers from Vienna to Utrecht to celebrate with him. On the way through Germany, we stopped at Würzburg to visit the castle […]
End of June 2024 we had returned from Africa and the Middle East. The summer in Austria was great, and we had enough time to meet with friends and family, attend a wedding, celebrated a birthday and much more. A lot of time went into servicing our “Cochecito”, which needed a bit of attention after
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We wanted to do a lot of improvements to our camper before leaving for Africa, therefore we had planned a view weeks mostly in Austria and Germany, to get all the work done in time. Special thanks go to: Mathias (TRAC-MOG.at)ORC Team (ORC.de)Günther (sendlhofer.net)Dopfer Team (dopfer-reisemobilbau.de)Luca Zech (marquartstossdaempfer.de)Votronic Team (votronic.de)Schlosserei Scheiber (schlosserei-scheiber.at)EDDY & CORDY (we-travel.at)
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We had found this hike to the “Seven mills valley” on a Rother guide, and decided to use the good weather to enjoy this beautiful valley just south of Stuttgart. We are now on the way back to Belgium, where we will drop our camper at the harbour of Antwerp in a couple of days,
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We were back at ORC, south of Stuttgart, and spent the day waiting for our new transmission by visiting the surroundings. We first went to the abbey and castle of Bebenhausen near Tübingen, before we visited the town where Kepler was born. The Cistercian monastery of Bebenhausen is one of the most beautiful and best-preserved
First some trucks we had admired at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, later some of the Unimog we saw at the museum in Gaggenau. With this LO 1112, Hector Prieto began a career as bus operator in Buenos Aires in 1969. As was customary in many private bus companies in the Argentine capital, his vehicle
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Actually, we had stopped at Hirsau just to use the service station for caravans, but then we had spotted the remains of the Hirsau Abbey and decided to have a look. We learned that Hirsau was once one of the most important Benedictine abbeys of Germany. In the 11th and 12th century, the monastery was a centre of the Cluniac
The Lichtenstein Castle in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany is a Gothic Revival castle which was built in 1840–1842. The owners are the Dukes of Urach, connected to the royal family of Württemberg. We managed to go there during a last revival of winter, which transformed everything into an enchanted landscape. At the bottom of the castle
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It was a rainy and cold day when we came past Stuttgart, and what would be a better idea than to visit a museum. We had been to the Porsche museum before, so this time we visited the Mercedes-Benz museum. Here some of the most beautiful cars we saw there. There are more cars to
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In Bavaria we stopped by at our apartment near Freyung, which doesn’t see us very often, visited a school friend of Edi and had enough time for a hike south of Augsburg. We started from Mittelneufnach, did a big circle to Oberneufnach, where we visited the lookout tower named after Christoph Scheiner – more about
