Summer Holiday, 21 August 2022

Despite having slept a lot of yesterday, we slept well last night, and although I woke up at about 06:30 and took my tablet, I then went back to sleep and didn't stir until the alarm went off at its usual Sunday time of 08:00.

After a rather belated breakfast we went for a stroll around Königswinter, down to the river,

along it, and back along the Hauptstraße, where several shops were, surprisingly, open. We kept wondering whether to stop for coffee and/or an ice cream, but it was a bit soon after breakfast for that. We ended up going slightly all round the houses back to the WoMo,

as we came up one road too soon and had to go quite a long way back on ourselves before we got to the level crossing. Which was closed. We waited and waited, and eventually what came along was a single locomotive, all by itself! Such an anti-climax. 

So anyway, we set off fairly soon after that, but the place where we had hoped to stop for lunch, by a lake, didn't seem to be there so we ended up in a motorway services, very dull. Then I went to sleep as the rest of the journey was also very dull, motorway all the way. And the traffic was incredible for a summer Sunday! Heaven knows what it must be like in a weekday rush hour, with all the lorries that don't run on Sundays!

Anyway, we got here in the end. "Here" is Osnabrück, where we are parked up in a small aire that is part of a large car park. There is a huge swimming complex, including a leisure bath (more lazy rivers), and we get a €5 discount as we are parked up, so we will probably have a swim in the morning, we shall see.