Was weekended in friedrichshafen and as someone as said the Zeppelin museum is there , well worth a look
I stayed for a week in Lindau, there is a small ferry that takes you over the lake to Bregens on the Austrian side too, although the town isn’t as nice as Lindau, which is beautiful. I recommend it. Lindau is a quiet very old town with decent bars and reasonably priced eateries. Enjoy it!
Regards,
Mark.
Got fined 600DM at the Lindau grenz by a fanatical German Zollner doing fidge work for a Swiss outfit. He closed the border down to search my truck for tacho cards. I told him that the next year he would be redundant when the EEC kicked off. First time I see a ginger headed German go purple 
That Ginger haired fella is now the town Mayor.
He still gets flashbacks of searching your lorry for frisby tachos. 
It was a Scania 110,fridge wagon & drag with Trilex wheels. I had taken the passenger seat out to make more room. On the way down to Spain I had a blowout. The spare wheel carrier is only good for an inflated tyre.I only had three bits of the trilex rim so put 'em in the cab.I’d come non-stop from Valencia on my way to Austria with Clementines. I was too heavy to go thru Swiss so had to go round the German way. The BP on the French A/Route is the same distance to Lindau grenz as it is from the Swiss Basel border. So… throw away all your tachos put in a new one marked St Louis & on ya go. I hadn’t slept,the inside of the cab was travel stained,it really got up the krauts back. I told him I’d just started work a coupla hours earlier but my jeans were all dirty from change the wheel & stuff like that. He was the only one on duty & there was a queue of drivers. He shut the hatch & went all over that old scania but had to make do with one tacho. I shoulda told him to look in the trash bin in Belfort. Anyway 600DM & another 7 hrs on my tacho which got me unloaded & back to base in Swiss.Before you start pontificating,things were different on fridges in the old days. It was seasonal work. In Summer you got good money for doing nothing,in the winter season you got stuck in.It was down empty & back loaded.
I hope you never met Pinochio,the motor biker Gendarme of Cherbourg Hill.?
He was a legend.Would strike fear in the hearts of the seasoned trucker.
He had a chip on the shoulder for English and Irish lorries.
I had a right run in with the Swiss customs.
I took the tractor unit only over Europe for a holiday.
They could not work out where my trailer or load was.
I bought the tax or whatever was needed at the border,but i lost it out the window.
I was kept at the road side for a day,in the end they gave up.I paid them something but not the full figure.
Back then cherry was 12ppl.
I only exported Cherbourg once. I did a one off for Savile taking a plane toilet down to Toulouse . They only gave me one CMR but the return load was multi pick-ups of chateau wines. Got the port of Cherbourg and the rummagers came round and looked in the back. I showed them the CMR for just a small part of the load but luckily they didn’t twig.
I would leave the wohnwagen at home and book in a pension close to the lake, catch the ferry to all the connecting ports and explore on foot.
Its not boring, it is a lovely place, Swiss is boring and closes about 6pm (y)
Thanks for all your replies so far but keep em coming.
You’ve always got the HYMER caravan museum, about 10miles north of Ravensburg. You could compare wobbly-boxes!
bald bloke, if you are into history try stopping at Remagen which is on the Rhine and you can see the battle scarred turrets from the bridge that used to be there. A film was made based on that bridge " The Bridge at Remagen".
Ray
flyer747:
bald bloke, if you are into history try stopping at Remagen which is on the Rhine and you can see the battle scarred turrets from the bridge that used to be there. A film was made based on that bridge " The Bridge at Remagen".Ray
( But don’t mention the War)
harry:
flyer747:
bald bloke, if you are into history try stopping at Remagen which is on the Rhine and you can see the battle scarred turrets from the bridge that used to be there. A film was made based on that bridge " The Bridge at Remagen".Ray
( But don’t mention the War)
Cheers Flyer and Yes i might have to Harry. 