Good evening all, how are you?
Thanks to the wonders of mobile internet from T-Mobile Germany I am able to stay in touch with you guys direct from our glorified car park hehe.
I should also say that we have snow, wonderful snow, and lots of it. When I get round to replacing the batteries in the camera I will upload the photos of our excellent Snow Table!
While the snow storm outside batters us I shall inform you all of a new travel invention that I have seen on my travels.
We stopped over night at another stellplatz near the German twn of Julich, which is home to one of the largest open cast mines in the world. Whatever you may think about the terrible destruction that this way of mining causes, you cannot stand near the edge of this “hole” and wonder at the scale of it.
Mahusive! and yes that is intetionally spelt that way!
Whilst staying in Julich I noticed that next door to us was a lovely patch of flat land, with some brlliant “pitch turf”, lights and a small toilet and shower block. This is the future of budget travel ladies and gentlemen…. A youth tent platz!
We’ve all heard of youth hostels, so just apply the same principle to tenting, basic – but nice and clean – and of course fairly cheap!
So there we go – ony one day down and already I have found the future of travelling. You can find out more about this place here
Happy Tavelling
Overland Si
February 14th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Can’t wait to see some pics Si. The tenting place does sound like a great idea for summer, not for winter though surely?
February 14th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
@Lou – I think it’s only open in the summer, bt I will posibly be revisiting this place, It is not too far from the Euro Tunnel / Ferry Ports, so is a fairly manageable first night stop.
February 14th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I love the snow and I love skiing.
February 14th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I haven’t been skiing in almost two years and I miss it! Enjoy!
February 15th, 2009 at 12:30 am
Hello.
Thanks for your visit and comment.
Toasts and pinaple? Oh my…If you come by Algarve, I guess you can drop by one of this days for a real meal
So… you´re in this big travelling adventure…
One thing I always wanted to do but couldn´t.
I would skip cold places in winter as I hate bad weather. Algarve is the best place to be right now, Spring is comming
I´ll come back to check your updates.
Good Weekend!
February 15th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Hi.
Just found your blog. I love travelling and travel blogs so I shall follow it keenly. I did a couple of years overlanding (the easy way, with commercial overlanding companies) a few years back and it was amazing. There were good times and bad times but I’d do it all again in the heartbeat if I could.
Have a great trip.
(You can check out my experiences on my blogs, you can find the links on my profile now that I am following your blog – there’s a complete book about the first half!)
February 17th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Looking forward to the pics!
February 18th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Jeese, sounds nice!