Eltmann- Aschaffenburg

Perhaps today was our longest day driving to date - not necessarily by choice, but more by circumstances. One hundred and fifty kilometres later we were parked up in the shade at Aschaffenburg - not far from Frankfurt.  

The overnight stop at Eltmann, by the Main River, last evening was quite idyllic - with the music from the village beer festival, cruise boats smoothly gliding by, good company and a cooling breeze, all making the stopover very pleasant. 

We left this morning with our Dutch neighbours enjoying the good life -  breakfast on the banks of the Main. It was interesting to hear their view on Brexit - basically, “...that’s the English and, it won’t effect us.” But they also expressed “sadness, in a sense, because England is part of the Western Europe family and all together we are strong.”

Monday morning, so, a replenishment of our supplies was required before setting a course to Lohr am Main. This took us through lovely forests and very productive farm land in the midst of their harvesting. The medieval villages along the way hadn’t changed much in the last 400 years - wooden framed houses with steep slopping rooves appeared to be in the majority.

We arrived at our destination in Lohr and found that the circus had been set up on the area where the stellplatz normally would be found. So, lunch in Lohr and then decided to drive through the Bayerisher Forest - another scenic route through a national park. 

Arriving at Aschaffenburg we located our stellplatz and found some beautiful trees providing plenty of shade as the temperature had climbed to 30+ degrees. Here we stayed for the rest of the afternoon and evening.  

A scary chart in the Guardian newspaper today on world climate:

A simulation of maximum temperatures on 21 July. Photograph: Climate Reanalyzer/Climate Change Institute/University of Maine.