Bonjour...

Have covered lots of miles in the past few days...or should that be kilometres, since we are in Europe?

Left Masevaux..boo hoo, bye bye to great campsite, nice people, good beer and lovely log fire. In no time at all we were over the border and in to Germany. Motored up to Stuttgart and eventually found the campsite by the river Neckar. There was a circus setting up outside the campsite and we saw the tiger in its truck! Very exciting for everyone until bedtime, when Euan refused to go to sleep with the lights off because he was frightened that the tiger was going to come! Kids, aren't they great?!

The campsite wasn't brilliant, really noisy after being in the sticks, with lots of people hanging about. Anyway, next day we went along the road past the Mercedes Benz Arena to the Mercedes Benz museum! Quite an amazing display of everything Mercedes and some in depth coverage of the events that shaped our recent history and that of the company. Lots of early aircraft engines for the first world war and much more for the second! However it was the iconic sportscars that made it amazing. We were all taken with the high speed sportscar transporter that could do 105mph! More incredible because it was over 60 years old.

I will add some of the pics when I can.

After that we went to a wee village just east of Strasbourg for an overnighter. There were odd croaky noises which had the kids peering into the gloom. It was a pheasant perched in a tree
chatting to the local competition. Once Euan was reassured that it was a vegetarian pheasant he went to bed no bother!

Went to the Burstner garage in Kehl (the German side of Strasbourg) to get some spares for the van. Had a look at some of the new caravans and motorhomes on offer. Wow! Tempted to sell everything and keep travelling. Not sure if the boys would ever forgive us though! The boys were given baseball caps, lanyards, keyrings and sweets. Bill even got given a decal of the burstner logo...he was happy!

Now we are in Strasbourg proper. The sun is shining and and the boys are whizzing about on their bikes. Hoping to head into the Grande Ile tomorrow for some touristy stuff (that isn't a car museum...) and then on towards Nancy.

Saw my first Alsacian Stork today perched on top of a man made platform on top of a chimney, sorting his twigs. Huge! Will post pics of that too.