On Monday 31st May we left the site near Berlin and headed south, roughly. It is quite a distance, so we decided to take two days, selecting a site near Nurnberg for a nights stop over, that was the start of our troubles.
We arrived at the site where the welcome was less than friendly. We were directed to a pitch on grass, alarm bells should have rung and Keith should have checked the ground state, we got stuck. It took us an hour to extricate the van and trailer, much to the entertainment of others, none of whom offered any assistance. We promptly left the site.
At the earliest opportunity we pulled off the road to consider our options. We had our evening meal and decided to go to a stellplatz which was about 40 k away, having rejected the option of a service area, upwards and onwards. We then encountered a road closure which involved a long and tortuous diversion. Arrived at the stellplatz only to be directed to a pitch which was to far away to connect to the electric or make use of other facilities, we payed €8 for that.
The rest of the journey was not to bad, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. We had a stop go at the Switz border, guard one waved us through, guard two signalled us to stop, guard one, by now agitated waived us on while his mate stood in the road. Words were exchanged between them and on we drove.
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