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We sat at a caf\u00e9 in the Marktplatz and watched, what seemed to be, rehearsals for a play by a youth theatre group.\u00a0 Their stage was the 53 steep steps of the St Michael\u2019s Church and they spent a lot of time walking, dancing and singing, up and down the steps; they\u2019ll certainly be fit by the end of it.\u00a0 We then wandered through some wonderfully old streets, down to the river and out on to the Unterw\u00f6hrd, an island in the middle of the river with lovely views of the town above.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A couple of hours later we drove back to the A6 and headed west; now we\u2019re driving in the right direction.\u00a0 We cruised along discussing how Germany seems to be covered in solar panels, far more than anywhere else we\u2019ve been in the world.\u00a0 And we tried to work out how long it would take us to get to the next planned campsite in Eberbach, but whatever time we came up with, didn\u2019t really matter.\u00a0 Two junctions along on the motorway, the slow lane became a car park, so as soon as we could get out into the second lane we did.\u00a0 Cruising along with the cars we actually passed at least 3 kms of almost completely stationery<\/span> trucks in the slow lane; it was an amazing sight.\u00a0 At one point the trucks covered two lanes, then, just as we reached the next junction, all the cars, all three lanes, everything, came to a complete stop.\u00a0 A quick decision was made and we managed to squeeze between the trucks to make our exit off the motorway at junction 39. \u00a0We later heard on the radio that there was a 26 kilometre tailback on the motorway near Neckarsulm; we were very glad we made the decision to take the cross country route.<\/p>\n We drove through a couple of villages and then pulled up under a nice tree at the end of a farm track to eat our lunch.\u00a0 Halfway through eating, an old farmer walked over to us from the field across the road.\u00a0 We were concerned that he may not like us being parked there, but it turned out he just fancied a chat and obviously wanted a peek inside Eileen.\u00a0 So with our lack of German and his not knowing any English since school, that much we understood, we somehow muddled through and told him which countries we had been to and where we were going next.\u00a0 We told him the date that we had left England and that we only had eight days left and after smiles and \u201cAuf Wiedersehns\u201d all round, I felt quite pleased that we really seemed to have just had a conversation, without relying on the other person to speak English.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The route we took was rather circuitous, but we passed so many pretty villages and M\u00f6ckm\u00fchl, with its fortress wall and turrets, looked interesting but we needed to get to a campsite before too late, as the last few we have stayed at have been very full.\u00a0 We followed rivers, crossed rivers, passed meadows full of flowers and fields full of barley or wheat, sunflowers, cabbages, sweetcorn and lots of apple orchards too.\u00a0 In places the countryside was a patchwork of colours, fields of yellow, next to fields of purple, gold and every shade of green; it was a nice drive but rather a big detour.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We finally reached Mosbach and joined the main road heading north beside the Neckar River and stopped at Camping Eberbach, in, wait for it, Eberbach.\u00a0 The campsite is right beside the river and we\u2019ve seen some quite large barges and pleasure boats travelling up it towards Heidelberg.\u00a0 The weather is still sunny and warm, so we\u2019ve eaten dinner outside and will aim for an early night so that we can get up fairly early and walk over to the station to catch a train in to Heidelberg tomorrow.\u00a0 We\u2019re not going to chance trying to get in to, and park, in any more cities with Eileen.\u00a0 Plus, vehicles have to have an emissions certificate before they can enter the city and we don\u2019t have the time to go and organise one of those with a local garage, so it\u2019s the train for us.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At 9:15am we were all packed up and driving out of the Detwang campsite.\u00a0 We joined the motorway heading south\u2026…south ?!!!\u00a0 Aren\u2019t we heading in the general direction of Calais?\u00a0 No Rodney fancied checking out Schw\u00e4bisch Hall, before aiming for Heidelberg.\u00a0 Schw\u00e4bisch Hall turned out to be an unusual town; 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