Day 4, Durlach to Tittisee (don’t snigger at the back)

Ok I will start at the end, as I type this the campervan is 15m from the lakeside and, the sun is just setting and I have a rather nice glass of red wine in my hand. The campsite is packed, but it’s not loud, there are spruces and silver birch trees everywhere and you set-up around them, it has a bar, a restaurant, a shop, and the obligatory shower block. In a word this Campsite is a vast improvement on last nights! I have now downgraded yesterdays to a 4 and this is a 7, if you are ever near Tittisee, I would recommend this campsite. Naturcamping Wieherhof am Tittisee. Geotag photos to follow as some point.

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So the journey? We left the campsite at 08:00 and went to Lidl, yes I know it’s cheap but it was open. All stocked up with Goodies (beer and wine first, followed by pork product, then other so called essentials), we got back on the road, then, follow the plan, turn left at Baden-Baden, .. no chance! we got lost in Baden-Baden, not entirely out fault, as the road we wanted was closed, I have decided the German are very poor at diversion signs, as luck would have it Bee spotted a sign to Freudenstat and the “500” which is the swartzwaldstrasase (black forest route) so we turn left and head up, and up and up, ears popping.... then what a view....1000M climb in the trees then a clearing, this was then followed by a coffee,

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then a drive down, and down a very winding down, not fun when the rear of the camper is wider than the front, Bee’s normal comment was a gasp followed by “Very close here”, I nearly took the offside wing mirror (in fact it’s more like a full length mirror, I suspect the builder of the van thought you might need to dress by them) off more than once. We hit the bottom of this valley, I have seen a few picturesque villages in the UK, but if you tried to image the idyllic Germanic town setting this was it, tall steeple houses, beer gardens and restaurants, and the odd cow in the pasture, all that was missing was the pretty German lass in twin ponytails and a red leather dress..... Steady boys!!.
This valley then led us to wolfmittestadzhousenuntgutrankenwieshund (ok ok I can’t remember the name, when I get the chance I will geotag) where we had to turn left/right to get to Triberg and the Falls, so we turned left and could not see the right!!!, we turned round and still could not find the turning, so we went back the other way again, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a HUGE road running over us... DOH.. So we found our way onto this and heading on to Triberg and the falls. These we spectacular, many pictures to bore you with and we climbed to the top, Bee even walked across a very very well built German wooden bridge. We found a Gift for our Nephew, (I don’t think you will appreciate it John). Then back in the Van and off further south to Tittisee, The road out to Triburg was steep and littered with Hairpins bends and we climbed then dropped. As we arrived in Tittisee we drove the wrong way and had to do a full loop of the Tittisee bypass, with its attendant Arctic lorries, petrol tankers and tree-trunk movers, (these tree-trunk movers are BIG) we caught the correct turning and found the campsite, and as I mentioned at the top of this blog, its “OUTSTANDING”.
Right time to top the wine glass up, and wander round the lake.