I slept a bit better last night, although I woke up there times before 1:30 am! Then I did sleep until 4:30,and then again until 6:30 or so, at which point I called it a night!
The trouble is, what with it being the winter and all, our batteries are misbehaving rather, and there was only just enough electricity to man the pump for our showers, and we basically had one reading-lamp on in the bedroom and one in the living area, groping in the dark the rest of the time. I decided not to wash my hair - I couldn't have dried it, anyway, as we were not on mains electricity - and washed my face in the basin rather than in the shower, and it lasted out, but did switch off fairly shortly after, so we had to run the engine a few minutes in order to flush the loo!
By the time breakfast was ready, it was light enough to manage without lights once all the shutters were open, and of course the batteries have charged up a bit during the course of the day.
We set off about 10 or thereabouts, stopping after an hour for the SW to have coffee. We then stopped again at the Lidl in Düren, so that I could shop, ostensibly for things for lunch, but there was a van in the car park selling chicken and chips, so I got that instead. I did shop for lunch stuff, though, so we might have our rolls for breakfast tomorrow. They were on coupon, anyway!
Then the last leg of the journey, to this campsite, should only have taken an hour, but we got badly held up by an accident on the motorway - didn't look serious, praise be, but did mess up the traffic! Then when we got to the campsite the receptionist was on the phone, and you could hear her desperately trying to get off to check us in, but she couldn't! And we needed the services, which also took time. So by the time we were settled in, it was really too late to go into Köln this evening, unless we were planning to eat there, as we wouldn't have been back until about 8 or later, and my blood sugar doesn't do late supper any more!
So we had our tea, and now the SW has gone for a walk along the river in the dark. I wish it wasn't dark - it's so lovely to sit and watch the boats go by,
especially the cruise ships, all festively lit up for this time of year.
Tomorrow will be the Christmas markets. I doubt we'll do all 7, though!
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