The fridge in the flat is empty, the fridge in the camper is full and we have driven to Göttingen. Where’s the camper parking?
There are lots of students here.
There are lots of timbered houses here.
And some fishy folk hanging around.
Lots of big churches too.
Walking around the park after a guided tour through the palace.
Lazy day
Today, Gerhild went into Darmstadt to see S. Kim walked to Steinbruchsee.
Steinbruchsee – a great place for a picnic
In the forest
Today we had brunch in Seeheim-Jugenheim and visited an old school friend in Pfungstadt-Hahn.
Old friends, new place. Where’s Pfungstadt-Hahn?
Our favourite home-made jam supplier in the street leading up to Lichtenberg castle.
After stashing the jam, we headed for Darmstadt for a walk through the forest along the Waldkunstpfad.
A boat
Houses for all sorts of bird.
How do you like Kim‘s new handbag?
Not made of gingerbread but definitely spooky
Looks interesting inside
Time to head home, tired but happy.
Thomas came today, as the Fischbachtal celebrated autumn harvest (Kerb in Hessisch), and we walked to Hottenbacher Hof for some delicious grilled trout with potato salad.
Favourite aunt/nephew!
A forest pool
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Fischbachtal‘s flying fire-brigade!
What are they laughing about?
Favourite aunt/niece
Uli is ill so we had a day off today.
The sawmill in Niedernhausen
Today we did some washing while it rained.
Between the showers we popped up to Lichtenberg for some more delicious home-made jam.
In the evening we went for Handkäse mit Musik to the Kuralpe-Kreuzhof with Claudia. Where’s that?
Today we drove to Völklingen to visit the Völklinger Hütte (tomorrow).
Free camper parking, €1 for electricity.
Today we visited the old Völklinger steelworks, now UNESCO-listed.
A filter-tipped chimney
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Deutsche Bahn not looking at its best
Nature coming in for a visit too
Some unhappy bunnies
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Well, Zollverein it’s not…
Today we drove through the rain to Camping Kockelscheuer in Luxemburg €26 per night. Where’s Camping Kockelscheuer? We were surprised to find it full. It was lucky that we had booked a few days in advance.
Today we jumped on the bus and braved the chill wind in the city. 🇱🇺
Since 2020 public transport has been free throughout Luxembourg!
Luxembourg is incredibly hilly.
The escalators match the trams.
Look at those colours!
We shopped for Gerhild‘s coming birthday here.
A merry lot.
Today (Sunday) we went to the Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Work by Cosima von Bonin -looks good, but they haven’t finished installing it yet.
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Part of the „Radical Software“ feminist exhibition…
Girl on stairs 2024.
The Admiral II (Faces of War), 1942 by Xanti Schiwansky.
Also by Xanti Schiwansky.
Very nice carved, bas relief portrait of the duke and duchess.
Tiring work visiting museums.
Portrait of photographer Edward Steichen in the „Tunnel gallery“ (under the Sparkasse bank).
What‘s that?
A prime porker! Aka Woinic.
Nice place for the night next to the river Aisne. Where is it?
Walking next to the river into Rethel.
Today we drove to Camping de Paris (where’s that?) – €50 / night
Leafy location
Right next to the Seine, in the Bois de Bologne.
Just stroll over the bridge to find some traditional French shops in Suresnes.
Chocolate shop on the way to Salle Pleyel
Interesting evening of contemporary dance with an unexpected support act of two young musicians. Parisians seem to find it OK to arrive half an hour after the show starts expecting everyone to stand up to let them prance to their seats. We drank red wine from plastic long-stemmed wine glasses, plastic so that if we throw them at the performers no one gets hurt… French culture? Two good souvenirs for the camper anyway.
Article about the work.
On the way to Centre Pompidou
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In the surrealism show
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He‘s the best
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You can see the Eiffel Tower if you squint
How do you like the restaurant?
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If only our living room had the space
You know you’re being watched
Bugs Bunny on the way home
Today we went looking for urban art in Saint-Denis
Near the Stade de France
It’s nice and sunny today
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Good things are even better when shared
Concrete cat
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In the Halle St Pierre
An outsider artist from Mauritius
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Looking up in Montmartre
Down to earth in Montmartre
Today, we popped by the Eiffel Tower.
Then we visited the Consiergerie to see some contemporary work by artists from Benin.
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A mixture of crash-helmet with sea-shells
So whose head did she cut off?
Could be haute couture
… until you take a closer look
The colours !
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A lot of traffic next to Notre Dame
No cars allowed next to the Seine!
Today we went to the brilliant (and free) Espace Monte-Cristo for their „Imaginary Worlds“ exhibition.
A rubber tree?
New homes for fashion-conscious birds by Antonio GAGLIARDI. See video on YouTube.
An antique telephone handset takes on a new life
Strange people hanging about
There are more of them!
They are growing them in plant-pots!
A proud mum and her children.
The little girl is growing her own doll.
What a family.
This daughter has grown out of dolls.
All by JEAN-FRANÇOIS FOURTOU, called LA FAMILLE DES HYBRIDUS – 2023-2024. See earlier work on YouTube.
Why do I feel nervous every time I walk past here?
Today was a lazy day apart from filling the water tank, emptying the rubbish, shopping, haircut, cooking, washing up, washing and drying dirty clothes and putting everything tidily away. In the rain… Very lazy.
On the way to the Musée de la chase et de la nature
The flesh of the world by Tamara Kostianovsky interesting YouTube video.
Pieces of tree-trunk made of old fabrics…
A tree-stump fixed to the wall.
A fabricated feathered friend.
A feathered ceiling with owl motifs.
A dog or a bear, what do you think?
One of the more traditional exhibits.
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No, not in the museum, outside in the street.
Charlie‘s looking suspicious.
Maybe he’s worried about this guy?
She looks suspicious too.
Sublime smile.
Someone’s not keen on this cafe.
Place des Vosges is looking good.
It rained non-stop today.
You often bump into Louis Vuitton
Window-shopping with an umbrella
The Petit Palais
A petit picture
Paris past
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A Swedish painter, Bruno Liljefors, who liked cat pictures.
Old pals
In the evening we went to the cinema to see Megalopolis.
The camper parking is here
Saint-Priest-Sous-Aixe is an interesting little village with a free space to park campers
Big-city art in this little village
Which still has several wells!
Kim enjoying the evening sun behind the church
Also hidden behind the church
Fine, misty start to the day.
Autumn is coming.
A marble tiger to watch over the camper.
Next to the parking space
Next to the abbey
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Good piece of art in the abbey
Le sentier des meulières shows how millstones were made in days long gone
Whatever they’re looking at, it’s not a millstone.
It‘s a praying mantis!
Father and son
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Old pals
Minerve is one of the „plus beaux villages de France“. Where is it?
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The gorge surrounding the village
Two lads
Nature clinging on and the house too!
Wild shapes cut by the river
The village
Walking around the hill under the village
The gorge
We’ll, you‘ve got to keep the wine somewhere
We had a delicious meal in the Relais Chantovent
Time to say goodbye
And drive to Les Criques de Porteils camp site. Where is it?
It’s next to the sea
We are parked next to a great tree
Today we went for a scamper along a sentier littoral
There are loads of these around here. No one seems to be eating the fruit?
This was cut into the concrete outside a house in Collioure. Lucky mum – every time she pops out shopping…
Stone at the base of the castle
Today we took a gentle stroll along the coast (the other way)
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The Pyrenees are in the distance
The coast & our campsite in the distance
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A good day to do some washing.
A scrambled-egg sunset to round off the day with a glass of French wine. 😀🍷🍷
Away from the coast and up into the Pyrenees to Camping les Porte Ducanigou
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Walking up into the town (Prades)
Painted on a wall in the town centre.
We even managed a pedicure today, Wayhay!
Today the weather forecast was for rain 💧💧 so we tidied up a bit and read
Kim read a detective story
Gerhild is reading a novel about the events in a house in Berlin over 100 years or so
Advertising for the boulangerie
Everyone’s eating roasted chestnuts
I remember dancing like that!
Children from a French school where they are taught in Catalan
This is the village called Eus which they claim is the sunniest place in France
Nice day for a 6 km walk
Some welcome shade
There are a few clouds
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Back to Eus for an ice cream
Today we headed up into the Pyrenees to Villefranche-de-Conflent, a fortified village.
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Quiet square with a vegetarian snack bar
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Sheep eat grass all day, so this seems like a good colour.
Sign for a wine bar using a “Porron” a fiendish Catalan invention to embarrass tourists
Then we went up to an altitude of 1500 m to Mont-Louis
Another fortified village
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The Pyrenees
No, not an artwork by Anish Kapoor, it’s a solar furnace
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Interesting place to camp for the night – in the moat! And it’s free.
A bright start to the day from the moat
The Pyrenees
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Foothills of the Pyrenees
Our campsite is on this lake, just around the corner
Birthday cake!
Halloween is BIG in Catalonia. Our campsite “Camping la Noguera”.
Today we walked 10 km around the Sant Llorenç reservoir
The weather gods were kind today
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The birthday girl
Not quite a diamond necklace yet, give it a few million years and who knows…