26/6/2019 – Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
You’ve not heard from us for a week or so now. Don’t worry, we are fine! The excitement of the motorhome lifestyle does wane a little when it the temperature is in the late 30’s and you are in a tin box…. In our case it’s a winterised tin box so it tends to stay warm at night. Great!
Mothership has plenty of windows and sunroofs, but the evening wind has been light and we didn’t invest in air-con for the hab area (it’s a £3K option and requires a hookup to operate), so our night time temperatures have been in the 30’s
Toby has invented an idea for motorhome manufacturers to decouple the vehicle air con pump from the engine and put an electric motor on it. It will still need a hookup to run but won’t require a 50KG box on the roof.
Anyway, currently we are holed up in Cologne. We have the mothership parked under a stand of trees in a lovely campsite right on the banks of the Rhine. We are 5km outside the city. We have ventured out to the Dom and bought new tires for T bike, but other than that, we are wilting away and waiting for weather that won’t kill us!
We hope you are ‘enjoying’ the fight between Johnson and Hunt. It doesn’t seem like sanity is going to prevail any time soon does it? We are still hoping for a peoples vote on the deal – whatever it may be. If the xenophobes still prevail, then so be it!