August 5th
Just when I thought it couldn't rain any more... more monster deluges today!! To avoid getting drowned, we found ourselves a very welcoming (and just as importantly warm and dry) bar, called Ellis bar which had free Wi-Fi or W-Lan as it's known over here. Drying out with coffees, which progressed to beers and then cocktails, we set about organising a dive in Lake Bodensee whilst we were here as a treat for Rachel's birthday. The owner of the bar, Steven, had lived in Southampton and was particularly useful as a translator. Watching us struggle he kindly got on the phone to a friend of his, and a few e-mails later we looked sorted for diving on Saturday.
Also whilst whiling our day away in the bar we bumped into one of the street performers from the previous day. All the way from Argentina, Sebastian's set consisted of just himself and a loop station, building phrase after phrase in the manner of a modern one man band. We got chatting and he gave me details of his web site which is http://www.artealpaso.com. There is free music on there to download, on the condition that you do something nice for somebody else.
Friday 6th August
Once again atrocious rain. The local stream, leading to the lake has become a surging brown torrent. Diving on Saturday is looking highly unlikely as the lake which, only two days ago, was crystal clear now appears to be made of coffee! Not only that but the road we needed to cross to reach our dive guys in Austria is now closed due to flooding! Nay mind eh?
We booked ourselves into our first camp site of the entire trip this morning so we could just relax for the day, at Der Landgasthof in Kressbonn. It's a very nice camp with free Wi-Fi, hence the regular updates and although the weather was poor, our spirits were not. Tonight Rachel and I are relaxing over a few bottles (or Flaschen) of German beer and a nice bottle of Cherry Wine! Cheers!
Just when I thought it couldn't rain any more... more monster deluges today!! To avoid getting drowned, we found ourselves a very welcoming (and just as importantly warm and dry) bar, called Ellis bar which had free Wi-Fi or W-Lan as it's known over here. Drying out with coffees, which progressed to beers and then cocktails, we set about organising a dive in Lake Bodensee whilst we were here as a treat for Rachel's birthday. The owner of the bar, Steven, had lived in Southampton and was particularly useful as a translator. Watching us struggle he kindly got on the phone to a friend of his, and a few e-mails later we looked sorted for diving on Saturday.
Also whilst whiling our day away in the bar we bumped into one of the street performers from the previous day. All the way from Argentina, Sebastian's set consisted of just himself and a loop station, building phrase after phrase in the manner of a modern one man band. We got chatting and he gave me details of his web site which is http://www.artealpaso.com. There is free music on there to download, on the condition that you do something nice for somebody else.
Friday 6th August
Once again atrocious rain. The local stream, leading to the lake has become a surging brown torrent. Diving on Saturday is looking highly unlikely as the lake which, only two days ago, was crystal clear now appears to be made of coffee! Not only that but the road we needed to cross to reach our dive guys in Austria is now closed due to flooding! Nay mind eh?
We booked ourselves into our first camp site of the entire trip this morning so we could just relax for the day, at Der Landgasthof in Kressbonn. It's a very nice camp with free Wi-Fi, hence the regular updates and although the weather was poor, our spirits were not. Tonight Rachel and I are relaxing over a few bottles (or Flaschen) of German beer and a nice bottle of Cherry Wine! Cheers!
Great stuff, Matt. More castles please!
ReplyDeletenice one! where are the pics?
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