Trip 9: Motorhome Travels through Germany, France & Belgium

6th October to 11th December 2019 

We started our motorhome travels in 'Big Ted', our 2011 Frankia Holiday BD680 motorhome after collecting him on 18th June 2018 from Webbs Motor Caravans in Warminster. So far we've done two trips in him, a short first one to Scotland and then a longer one of just over 6 months in 2018/19. This is our third trip, details below.

This is an interactive map of our travels. It shows all the places we have visited and, by clicking on any location icon you can reveal where it is, some photos and links to blog entries there. You can also access a list of them by clicking on the square in the top left hand corner of the map and scrolling down.

Our plan:

Our third trip in Big Ted, our motorhome (and out 9th overall since giving up work in 2012) and, as usual, our plan was very vague. Our last trip took us through France, Spain and Portugal so, this time we thought we'd go a little further east.

By following the map above you can see that we caught a ferry to France on 6th October and travelled through Belgium, a little bit of the Netherlands and then into Germany at Aachen and then to Cologne. From there we followed the River Rhine south (upstream) very slowly, stopping at many medieval towns and sights on the way, ending at Mainz.

From there we drove across to Wurzburg and then followed the Romantic Road south ending at Fussen, headed west to Lake Constance, across briefly into France and then up through the Black Forest, through Luxembourg, Belgium, France and then a ferry back home, arriving back on 11th December.

Why such a short trip? Our minds drifted to somewhere further afield and South Africa came to mind. We leave for that on 22nd December, hence cutting this one short. That's the subject of Trip 10, to be published soon.

We've no doubt our plans for this trip will change and evolve as it progresses so we'll update as we go along and post links to blog entries below.

Blog posts of the tour so far:

6th to 8th October 2019 - Calais, France to Ypres (Ieper), Belgium - Click here for blog entry
9th to 12th October 2019 - Ypres to Waterloo to Rekem and Maastricht - Click here for blog entry
13th to 17th October 2019 - Aarchen, Cologne and Bonn - Click here for blog entry
18th to 20th October 2019 - Remagen & Andernach - Click here for blog entry
21st to 24th October 2019 - Boppard & Bacharach - Click here for blog entry
25th & 26th October 2019 - Bacharach - Click here for blog entry
27th to 29th October 2019 - Rudenheim & Mainz - Click here for blog entry
30th to 3rd November 2019 - Wurzburg & Wertheim - Click here for blog entry
4th to 7th November 2019 - Tauberbischofsheim, Weikersheim and Rothenburg - Click here for blog entry
8th to 12th November 2019 - Dinkelsbuhl & Nordlingen - Click here for blog entry
13th to 16th November 2019 - Harburg, Donauworth & Landsberg Am Lech - Click here for blog entry
17th to 20th November 2019 - Oberammergau to Fusson - Click here to see blog entry
21st to 24th November 2019 - Wangen, Ravensburg, Friedrichshafen & Meersburg - Click here to see blog entry
25th to 29th November 2019 - Titisee, Altglashutten, Freiburg, Biesheim and Gengenbach - Click here for blog entry
30th November to 2nd December 2019 - Gaggenau & Neustadt - Click here to see blog entry
3rd to 5th December 2019 - Traban-Trarbach & Trier - Click here to see blog entry
6th to 10th December 2019 - Dudelange, Luxembourg, Han-Sur-Lesse & Thieu, Belgium, Grenay, France - Click here to see block entry