Last night's impromptu overnighting spot happily turned out to be totally untroubled and perfectly peaceful. Come morning it even took on an unexpected autumnal ambience, with heavy mists and numerous greylag geese ghosting around and grazing in the adjacent stubble field. A taste of things that will (all-too-soon) be upon us...
After quitting camp we mainly just covered ground and headed roughly Moldova-wards, making use of a mix of frenetic autobahns and the occasional bumbling back road to break things up a bit. Some of the back road Saxony-esque villages we passed through were very impressive and were as pretty as they were imposing.
Lunch was spent on a bit of rough ground adjacent to a random unclassified road in a random bit of Germany and as well as enjoying some splendid bread, cheese and olives I also enjoyed an encounter with a hummingbird hawk moth: which itself was enjoying a random food plant adjacent to a random unclassified road in a random bit of a Germany. I'm not sure we'll make its blog.
The afternoon saw a bit more ground covering that also included taking on some diesel (€1.55/l), before we sought overnighting-spot solace and ended up on a disused track that lies off a little-used track in what looks like a working forest (coordinates).
Emma ran from here in the sweltering heat of the late afternoon whist I very much didn't and instead took to the cab roof to see what I could see (pic). Nothing unusual, as it turned out. The most notable of the fairly common species I spotted was a sweating wife and a painted lady butterfly. These butterflies aren't regarded as in any way rare but, in spite of that, it's literally years since I remember seeing one.
As I type, Emma's setting up a trail cam as we've seen loads of fresh boar prints. This isn't the kind of spot where it would be sensible to climb bleary-eyed off the truck to answer a middle-of-the-night call of nature.
Post composed at 21:50 on Thursday 24th July from our intended overnighting spot N 51.53414°, E 09.56970° / http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:51.53414%2C09.56970