The Blue Danube

We were up early and visited the Hoge Venen national park in the Eifel region of Belgium. Belgium is a mixture of Flemish, French and German and the park is contiguous with one in Germany. It also has the highest point in Belgium at 693 metres, in the carpark of the visitor centre. There is also a 7 metre high artificial hill there, created at Belgium's birth, so we had to bag it. It must be the easiest European high point. We drove south through Germany in increasingly warm and sunny weather and decided to stop the night in Ulm. Apart from being a lovely old city, it is also the birthplace of Albert Einstein. It also has free overnight campervan parking in a park and ride near the city centre. We had our tea and cycled into the city, on the good cycle network, had a beer and came back along the Donau (Danube). It was a lovely still, warm evening with people out and about enjoying the weather, or exercising on the water.