We hadn’t really formulated a plan/route for Germany! We set off to visit the town of Xanten, which incidentally is the only place in German that has a letter X at the start of it’s name. We visited the archeological park with the remains of a Roman bath house. Pretty early on we both admitted it wasn’t hitting the spot, so off we went! We had a look around the Town instead. We opted for a small stellplatz in a village/town most people probably haven’t heard of – Alderkerke. Next morning after discovering that the following day was a bank holiday in Germany, we set off to take our chances of finding a stopover around the Koblenz area. We had tried to contact sites with either no luck/no response or sorry we are full. The autobahn was wall to wall traffic with lorries & roadworks everywhere, we followed the satnav which tried to reroute us back the way we had come & again through the traffic. We stopped at a service area for a coffee. Armed with a map, we looked what was directly in line with us, it was Roermond back in The Netherlands. So that was our interlude. Spent two lovely sun drenched days at the marina there, explored the area & planned our next move.
