On the road again!

Most of the third day was spent travelling to our next destination of Bamberg. The campsite is by a river and has a wonderful toilet/shower block! It is amazing how already these things have become so important to us all. The weather had also suddenly turned to glorious sunshine. Spirits were high, and further elevated by the great campsite and the fact that this would be our first two night stop over somewhere. Time to catch our breath, and do a bit of washing! Dinner was my last night on cook group for a while, as the next group will rotate from tomorrow. The rest of the evening was spent playing backgammon and drinking red wine with new friends, perfect (also safe in the knowledge that I could sleep in tomorrow!)

The following day we took a lovely riverside walk into Bamberg, which is a UNESCO protected town, very pretty with lots of well preserved half timbered houses. Had a bit of lunch, a wander through town and to the first internet café of the trip. On the way back to camp we strolled through the market buying juicy, sweet strawberries from the market. The weather has been amazingly warm today, even requiring the first slap of suncream. It’s incredible when I think that only 4 days ago I was in dull London. Bring on Prague!

Today has been a long drive day from Germany and into the Czech Republic to our campsite near Prague. Again this will be our base for the next two nights. The drive was about 400 km. We usually stop every few hours for a toilet break and then at lunch time we prepare a quick lunch from the truck of rolls with ham and cheese etc. However not today! We appeared to have been travelling in sync with a German tourist coach in the direction of Prague and at our lunch time stop the bus was at the same pit stop at us. Within no time at all they came over to offer a whole joint of ham, various breads, tubs of potato salad, coleslaw and two tubs of chocolate and vanilla desserts. What a feast!

So here I now sit outside the camping reception on wi-fi again, drinking my Czech pils, tent pitched. Tomorrow we head into Prague, so more from me then!