Driving along the Rhine

Louis, Oliver the dog, Ollie and Teo, and me on a car ferry.

Along the Rhine river, there are a lot of picture postcard towns, castles, vineyards, and trains like a toy railway.

Louis fell asleep, so we pushed on to Essen. When we arrived, the campground was having some disco night with a big disco tent, sausage and salad for dinner, and 1.80 euro beers. The hits from the 80s, and a few popular German songs, play until about midnight. Louis bops to the rhythm. Everyone loves it. A nice German man arrives at our table to give the boys some colouring in books, whistles, balloons and magic sketch pads (the erasable kind). Super!

The Rhine river and another beautiful village.

We met a man and his kiddie on a mini bike tour in town camping next to us. He's a divorced pest exterminator. His kid's bike is better equipped than mine, with mudguards, and dynamo lighting. Too cool.

Reasons Germany is tops:
-no speed limit in places. When going at 150, people still overtake like you're standing still.
-everything works and is clever
-in general, everything is made in Germany
-they say "Das is good" for real
-the food is very good everywhere

Rhine river.

Happy we're visiting his town, an Essen man