Lenny's off again Germany, then wherever

[L' Hobo]

I'm 69 and I can just remember the threshing machine coming to our farm powered by an old tractor at harvest

Yes, on our farm, thrashing the. corn stacks was a winter job ( 'drum & tackle' made by Marshall) until the early 60's.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

A seconder for this one but if I remember rightly if you are approaching from the west the road is a crit aire zone and nowhere near any town.
Journal entry 'Schiltach' https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/journals/schiltach.111/

Don’t know about that as I just follow the SatNav, I know I couldn’t get the left turn down to the pitch from the road so had to go up to the train track crossing and turn around

Don’t do any of the crit air stuff as nobody has caught me yet

 

[Dutch 68]

It's edible, just about but when you go out for a meal and have a choice of, Schnitzel, Schnitzel, Schnitzel, or Schnitzel covered in a tinned sauce it's a bit much.

They just cover the meat with rubbish so you can’t see it is bad quality meat out of the freezer where it was stored since 1985 , you are right Lenny, British meat is a lot better on average, choice is poor in a lot of EU countries anyway, we are spoilt for choice here

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

British meat is a lot better on average, choice is poor in a lot of EU countries anyway, we are spoilt for choice here

Your not wrong, just had a nice roast, belly pork with apple sauce, melted in my mouth you won’t get that anywhere else in the EU

 

[bellabee]

Bamberg is lovely - one of our favourite towns in Germany.

We find Rothenburg ob der Tauber to be a bit 'over the top.' Much prefer Dinkelsbühl.

We're in Chambord now.
Beautiful weather - heading to the Lot Valley and Aveyron.

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[Cookieboy68]

They just cover the meat with rubbish so you can’t see it is bad quality meat out of the freezer where it was stored since 1985 , you are right Lenny, British meat is a lot better on average, choice is poor in a lot of EU countries anyway, we are spoilt for choice here

Is the food that bad in Germany, we were thinking of doing the black forest in the van ,but we do love going out for some good snap

 

[Soycd]

Is the food that bad in Germany, we were thinking of doing the black forest in the van ,but we do love going out for some good snap

If you want a decent meal in Germany, I'd suggest Greek, Turkish or Italian. We lived there for years and a trip to the 'Greekie' was always our favourite. When I'm looking for sites on our travels through Germany we don't stay anywhere that doesn't have a Greek nearby!

 

[Lenny HB]

Is the food that bad in Germany, we were thinking of doing the black forest in the van ,but we do love going out for some good snap

Bratwurst for lunch Schinzel for dinner what more could you want.

 

[Dutch 68]

Is the food that bad in Germany, we were thinking of doing the black forest in the van ,but we do love going out for some good snap

Nah I have found some good ones over the years too , it is just very different from what we are used to, do read reviews before you book a restaurant, the Argentinian steak restaurants are quite good in Germany and in the better restaurants a nice mixed grill is OK, if you like an abundance of fine dining restaurants then the German country side will disappoint, a lot easier to find nice restaurants in Italy and Spain,
Belgium and the Netherlands have many top restaurants too, the Flemish part of Belgium and the south of the Netherlands are the hotspots, people there really love their food and are prepared to spend the dosh for quality

 

[Soycd]

Gas bottles changed this morning please I coughed up the €21.50 to let then do it. He had a struggle getting the connections undone, they had been over tightened. Found the T piece hade a crack on the mating surface also the fittings on the newer bottles are a bit higher so he also fitted a an extra r/a fitting to connect to my inlet pipe that couldn't be moved and didn't charge for the fittings.

Got my gas levels about right one bottle empty the other one less than half full.

Went and filled up then stopped down the road and checked all the connections with my gas sniffer. All OK.

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Are you going to transfer all that setup to the new van or just the bottles? The LHD we just sold had German gas fittings so I was still using German bottles, plus I had a UK one with an adaptor.

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[Lenny HB]

We find Rothenburg ob der Tauber to be a bit 'over the top.' Much prefer Dinkelsbühl.

Last time we went to Rothenburg it was peeing down not impressed & too touristy for us, it's just on the route south so may stop and give it another go.

Might have catch up with you in France if I can persuade Mi to leave Germany.

 

[WESTY66]

Lenny HB if you do go to Rothenburg P2 do not have a feta salad at the Greek restaurant opposite, it’s literally a slab of feta with a leaf on top

 

[Dutch 68]

Your not wrong, just had a nice roast, belly pork with apple sauce, melted in my mouth you won’t get that anywhere else in the EU

If you pass through NL or Belgium try Stoofvlees, it’s slow cooked and delicious ,
As we are talking about meat the best steak I had in the last decade with in Spain in the small mountain village of Competa , best T bone I ever had, you just need to be lucky sometimes, so much choice in restaurants , some are consistently good, others are not

 

[Lenny HB]

Are you going to transfer all that setup to the new van or just the bottles? The LHD we just sold had German gas fittings so I was still using German bottles, plus I had a UK one with an adaptor.

Just the bottles as the hoses will be 10 years old next year.
All refillables are German fittings.

 

[Lenny HB]

Lenny HB if you do go to Rothenburg P2 do not have a feta salad at the Greek restaurant opposite, it’s literally a slab of feta with a leaf on top

That's sounds perfect as long as there is no poison in it (cucumber).

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[Soycd]

All refillables are German fittings.

You learn something new every day! Thanks. I'm still debating about what to do on the new van (Adria Twin PVC) Might get an underslung to save space. Bottles on a PVC are not easy to get to. Our last one had a Webasto diesel heater, which we really liked and a small gas bottle for cooking.

 

[Barryh]

Lenny HB if you do go to Rothenburg P2 do not have a feta salad at the Greek restaurant opposite, it’s literally a slab of feta with a leaf on top

A slab of feta? Delicious! I would leave the leaf on the side.

 

[WESTY66]

A slab of feta? Delicious! I would leave the leaf on the side.

Trust me it was too much

Then there was feta in the main course

And when we paid we didn’t tip him cos he was a miserable t##t, that didn’t go down well

 

[Just smiffy]

Being half German with mother from Berlin we went there many many times and I can say I never had Schnitzel while there or back at home in all the 20 years she was with me… so if she never had it or cooked it for the family it must have been bad….

 

[Lenny HB]

Saw a sign on the Autobahn today I've not seen before "No overtaking for Motorhomes over 7.5t".

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[Coastal Cruiser.]

Saw a sign on the Autobahn today I've not seen before "No overtaking for Motorhomes over 7.5t".

Did it say motorhomes or just have a picture of a lorry in red, normally has a time that you are not allowed to overtake.

 

[Lenny HB]

Did it say motorhomes or just have a picture of a lorry in red, normally has a time that you are not allowed to overtake.

No overtaking sign with a picture below of a Motorhome with 7.5t.

 

[Kilroy]

I'm 69 and I can just remember the threshing machine coming to our farm powered by an old tractor at harvest

Same here!

 

[Kilroy]

Same here!

Old Nuffield I reckon

 

[L' Hobo]

Old Nuffield I reckon

An old Nuffield would not be powerful enough to work the Drum and elevator or baler, it was usually a Field Marshall ( or pom-pom as it was known.)

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[Kilroy]

An old Nuffield would not be powerful enough to work the Drum and elevator or baler, it was usually a Field Marshall ( or pom-pom as it was known.)

I’m sure you are right. My memory is from the mists of time! We lived later on a cereals & peas farm with an early combine harvester version that I “helped” on when 7 years old.
There were a number of old Nuffields parked ip in the sheds

 

[Stealaway]

Last time we went to Rothenburg it was peeing down not impressed & too touristy for us, it's just on the route south so may stop and give it another go.

Might have catch up with you in France if I can persuade Mi to leave Germany.

Go East young man.

Lots of it barely untouched since the war.
We've been here for the last ten days.
We've been to the Simpson / MZ motorcycle museum. We've been on a zoo safari and spent a good hour looking around a pre war machine shop and forge ( bargain at 3€ each)

Today could be the old Wartburg factory in Eisenach.

 

[L' Hobo]

I’m sure you are right. My memory is from the mists of time! We lived later on a cereals & peas farm with an early combine harvester version that I “helped” on when 7 years old.
There were a number of old Nuffields parked ip in the sheds

10yrs old was about the age, as I was a big lad that, (during the school holidays), I was expected to look after the chaff from the thrashing machine.

It was a dusty, dirty place to be, situated between the drum and the stack but better than stacking the loose thrashed straw in the biting frozen North, wind that blew across the flat land of Norfolk to our farm in the Cambridgeshire fens.

 

[Stealaway]

That's sounds perfect as long as there is no poison in it (cucumber).

Well that's weird

I hate cucumber - even when I did eat it I always thought it was.a complete waste of time m

 

[Stealaway]

Saw a sign on the Autobahn today I've not seen before "No overtaking for Motorhomes over 7.5t".

Try this one that's been driving up mad for weeks now.
You seem to see it all over and sometimes with a written message underneath

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