Checking the Eurotunnel website we found a reasonable crossing on a Saturday afternoon at £150 (motorhome + trailer) and by the time we went back to book it the price had risen to £159 - hey ho.
En route to Folkestone we made a couple of visits to friends and family which gave us the chance, at long last, to meet our newest grandson - now nearly 3 months old and bringing the number of grandchildren up to 6!
DENMARK
LPG
Only 6 lpg stations in the whole of Denmark. http://www.mylpg.eu/ has details of lpg stations throughout Europe
SERVICING
There are a number of servicing points on the motorways - listed in Nordic Camper Guide
Hi my name is Paul and I am 65 years young, a retired entertainer ( music business ) my rig is an VW T4 Compass Calypso 2.4 Diesel and I will be traveling the U.K with two Westies ( West Highland Terriers ) from the 28th of September, leaving Maidstone our Home base first stop probably Dorset area overnight at one of the pubs the site has mentioned and then down to Cadgwith Cornwall for about a fortnight or longer.
That's it
Well, we've finished for the summer, the last 6 weeks at our second location. We feel that having seen it through to the end we probably won't be doing it again!
The campsite for our last 6 weeks was quite large and run by the owners who work full time at it. One other warden couple covered maintenance, odd jobs, pitching arrivals, reception, shop etc. - our duties solely revolved around cleaning.
The temperatures continued in the middle to high 30s while we were on the campsite, so we decided that it would be far too hot to think about visiting Berlin, as we had planned - it will always be there for another day. So, after five nights at Cottbus we headed for the Baltic coast near just beyond Rostock. We spend a few nights there, including some time lazing on the beach (unusual for us, but very enjoyable). Then we woke up one morning to the coldest day we had experienced since we left the northernmost parts of Norway(!) - we had certainly got the cooler weather we were looking for!
We decided that, at 19 deg. we may as well move on; we didn't feel like 'doing' any more cities, so headed for Calais, ringing forward to book a ferry. It's a good job we did, as the first price we were quoted was way high. However, we were able to get a sensible price for Sunday morning. We headed to Calais for Friday night, giving ourselves a day to do the 'necessary' shopping and enjoy a lazy French lunch before our return home.
So we arrived back early afternoon today (Sunday) having travelled through 12 countries and having covered 7559 miles. All is well back at home, now all we have to do is the cleaning, washing, gardening etc!!
We have spent 5 nights in a campsite near Cottbus just over the border from Poland - catching up with washing - clothes and Sally, who was covered in thick dust - and chilling out with ice cream, cold beer and shade (thank goodness for the bigger fridge in Sally 2!). We have had some very high temperatures - in the low 40s - one of the reason's we decided to 'rest up' for a few days. Today has been up to about 37. We have also decided that we will not be going to Berlin next (it will still be there when we come back this way again) - it is far too hot for visiting cities, so we plan to make our way slowly towards the Baltic coast, and work our way along the north of Germany, hopefully catching some sea breezes on the way.
Some pictures of what we have seen
Torun
Birthplace of Niclaus Copernicus. Like Darwin 2 centuries later, he was considered a heretic (and, no doubt, a lunatic) for his theories - in his case that the earth revolves round the sun and not the other way round.
The Mazury Lake District - sailing, holidfays and having fun
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