Friday 5th December

Campervan no 2 day! We got up and got the shuttle to take us back to the airport because we had instructions for how to get to the train station from the airport and it sounded easy LOL. So I asked at the info desk at the airport (also a bonus as they spoke English) and they told us it was about a 5 min walk to the train station so we set off (with all bags in tow of course hehe) and figured out how to get tickets etc to catch the train. Everything went very smoothly…until we got off the train too early and found no phone to call the campervan people and saw no taxis or anything…after about an hour (maybe slightly more) we discovered the mistake and that we needed to get off the train two stops away so we jumped on the next train and got off in two stops – there were taxis lined up at this stop LOL so we just jumped in one and got taken to the campervan place.

When we arrived we realized we were a day early…duh! I had checked everything else 10 times – times of flights, date to take back other campervan, times to pick it up etc but not the date! Lol OOPS. Anyway they let us take it a day early (after much deliberation…seriously it was sitting out there ready to go anyway and of course we paid for an extra night…) We headed out (on the right side of the road eek!) to a supermarket we had passed in the taxi and brought some duvets and blankets and some food….that was a challenge in itself of course as everything was in German! Col is doing really well, popping in bits and pieces of German from our book LOL, I really stink at it! By this time is was getting dark and we really didn’t know where we were heading… but found a camping ground about 70kms away so headed for that. Arrived there at about 5:30 I guess and rung the bell…of course no English and Col gave me the mission of getting us in…I asked if we could camp here, which he replied yes then something else – I thought he said he was coming out so we waited…and waited… but he didn’t so I rung again and he said to go to the restaurant. When there it was a mission to understand ANYTHING lol. I was umming and arring like a dork and then suddenly another guy who was up at the bar piped up in English to help me – which was great and made the rest of the process easier.