24th june 2011

Left the stellplatz in Filderstadt and set off for Calw on the Nagold river, the book said it took 30 motorhomes but on arrival there were only four places and one of those was already taken by a large motorhome. We had just decided to park next to it when another van arrived, so we quickly moved into the pitch. Within half an hour the fourth place had gone and other vans were still arriving!

After a coffee Lynn and I walked into the town and spent the afternoon wandering the streets lined with wonderful old buildings, typically German, five or six stories high with decorated wood and plaster fronts. Even the new ones kept the same style. The town was having a lot of building work done, with one street been totally dug up, but it was a very attractive town with the river running through it. One of their most famous sons (Hermann Hesse) was a nobel prize winning poet & author and has a statue on one of the bridges and a museum in the town. During the war he helped a lot of Jews escape the Nazis and was an outspoken opponent of that regime.

As we walked around we saw adverts for lots of concerts etc including one where the lead act was Suzi  Quatro and backing her up was Sweet, I kid you not!

We sat in the town square at a strube  and ordered two beers, only to be brought two half litre jugs! Lynn pretended to be shocked at the quantity, but as we sat in the sun admiring the buildings, her glass went down the same as mine. However, she is now sitting opposite me (back at the van) fast asleep!