Au revoir deutchland

Bienvenue en Francais, encore.  We're back in France having spent the last few days in germany.  And the satnav is back up and running so me and the wife are still talking to each other.

We spent a couple of days in the Black Forest (Schwartzwald) area looking for the nice bits, since we were told there aren't any!  Not true, we found lots of bits we really liked, some fantastic roads, great scenery and good food.  Plus football which made the germans blush a bit.  They were quite quiet during the Spain game...

Then Stuttgart, or rather Porsche; Stuttgart. 

A couple of hours at the new Porsche museum which competes with the Mercedes one down the road, which in my view is no competition.  Both of us really enjoyed it and saw some rather special motor cars.

Had a night sharing the van with loads of flies, and became quite blood thirsty in thier destruction.  At least they didn't bite.

Then to Darmstadt, to meet and stay with Anya and Noel.  We had a great couple of days trying to take things easy in 37 degrees and no breeze.  Took a stroll around a dog sanctuary and walked a couple of the inmates.  And managed to catch both finals of the football - Anya and Noel don't have a telly, so we had to go and watch both matches in Anya's mum's house, 5km away, which they're trying to sell.  All told, being the avid footie fan I am, I think the best team won.  If Netherlands had got it hanging on with however many yellow cards and only losing 1 player, then it would have been rough justice.  Well done Spain.

Anyway, with our hosts off to work in the morning, we left Darmstadt and headed back towards France.  The idea was originally to head for Paris, but we may have binned that since the heat is unbearable and actually we can get to Paris very easily from Watford any time.  So we sort of found ourselves back in France having driven further than we thought, and stayed in Pont-a-Mousson on the river bank last night for €7.

I took a run at 7.30 this morning to miss the heat and now we have pottered the short distance up to Verdun.  Checked in to a campsite for a couple of days, mainly because we're not sure how mad / quiet things get tomorrow (Bastille Day), and this site is quite near the town centre so we can go and join in the fun?  It's got a good pool too, so if the weather holds then we'll enjoy that too.  Forecast is for heavy rain tomorrow though, which will be a right shame, given the last few days.