THE BEST of VAN LIFE - GERMANY JUST KEEPS on GIVING! BEAUTIFUL BAVARIA
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2024
- This week, our campervan travels take us to southern Bavaria in Germany as we discover and explore the German alps, including a pretty but pricey gorge walk, and then take a hike and a swim in Lake Eibsee at the foot of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze. With waters that look like a Caribbean paradise, this lake shocked and amazed us with its crystal clear beauty and getting the chance to swim with snow-capped mountains behind us. We've spoken about the difficulties living in a van, but things like this are definitely the high points of vanlife and sum up why, for all the sacrifices, we made this choice. Even if it did cost us a fortune to park to see the lake, but nothing's perfect, is it? And yes, it was worth it!
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Dan & Stephen
Absolutely a beautiful picture postcard place just stunning xx
Thank you Lindsay! ❤️ It's a place we will definitely cherish xx
Fantastic video guys, you two really are living the dream. The memories you are making are awe-inspiring, Well done!
These lakes are absolutely going on my save list. Looked amazing and you know how I like a swim too!
Oh Jo, Eibsee was phenomenonal- but definitely important to go when it's sunny so the colours hit right, I think. Swimming in it was glorious, worth every penny of expensive parking for sure! ❤️
Love Germany, an amazing place. Great vid as always. Cheers guys and keep up the good work.
Cheers Gareth 👍 We have loved Germany, very glad we chose to spend a couple of months here!
Fab video guys lovely to see you both having a nice time together the scenery is beautiful 🤩 xxx
Thank you guys, it was a very special place, highly recommend it ❤️😍
My God, Dan, I thought that was Daniel Craig coming out of the lake they’re looking for a new James Bond. I think we’ve just found him the scenery and the mountains and the lakes are absolutely breathtaking. Keep up the good work absolutely love watching these videos of Germany makes me very homesick.❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Oh Paul, you flatterer, you! 😍😂 Haha I appreciate it of course, but I think this Daniel needs to muscle up a bit more to compete with that 😉 Speaking of which, we've got weights in the van, why are they gathering dust? 🤔🙈
So pleased you enjoyed all the scenery, it really took our breath away in Bavaria, what a place! Thank you again ❤️🙏
Oh wow … totally smitten by the body, the lake, and the snow capped mountain. Need to plan to go …. 😂
Thank you kindly! ❤️ It's a dream place with so much to see there
Ó that lake is truly beautiful, it is a shame about the cost but the scenery is amazing thank you Dan and Steve
Thank you Michael as always ❤️🙏 The parking cost was shocking (damn those height barriers) but the fact we both felt glad we did it tells you how great that lake was in the end, so swings and roundabouts, or whatever the saying is 😍😁
Fantastic gorge colours were amazing. Lake was fabulous glad you are enjoying your tour around germany. Fantastic duo you need a cameo in a film together. Look forward to next week.
Thank you so much ❤️ 🤗 Really glad you enjoyed the scenery, the video did not do the colour of that lake justice, it was so much brighter in person! A film cameo, now that would be something, not sure who would be daft enough to invite us onto a set but we wouldn't say no 😂❤️
You never know there might be a director watching funny things have happened to people who are now famous. Keep up the good videos no pressure.
Another fab video, thank you for taking me on that journey very much appreciated,😁👍
Hi Linda, thank you, you're very welcome, so pleased you enjoyed it 😍 🙏
Cant wait to be discovering these places. The waters looked like the ones we saw in Canada really blue but so icy!! I always say to Steve why should we have to pay for something thats natural!! Was a really beautiful place Thanks for sharing addded to our map!!
Ah that's great guys, yes you'd love it in that region 😍 There's a motorhome parking area in Garmisch-Partenkirchen by the ski jump (not free, but not expensive as I remember) so it's a good base to explore the area.
My mum used to tell me that Garmish was her favourite place to go on holiday when she was a little girl. Thank you for showing us what it looks like. ilona.
Morning Ilona, thank you and you're very welcome ❤️ Oh wow, well I'm glad we got to put some images to the memory of your mum's holiday tales. I'm sorry we didn't show off the town, but I feel like people must come here for the surrounding scenery and nature rather than the town itself, which I imagine was similar for your mum and her family at the time.
Thank you and have a lovely day (sun's out here, hooray!)
That was absolutely stunning. 🤩
Thank you ladies ❤️😍
Absolutely brilliantly video - thank you. It was joyous seeing how much enjoyment you both got from all that scenery and swimming. Btw has anyone told you that you both have great legs?! Sometimes you just can’t put a price on stuff - even the car park charges I would pay to experience all that! And you are so right about the British social behaviour - of the ordinary people and government! Looking forward to your next vlog. Stay well and safe.
Wow thank you Irene, that's so nice of you to say 😍 Right, legs out at all times now, rain or shine 😂❤️ So pleased you enjoyed the video, we're glad if our own joy came across, we hoped so because we're not always naturally "bubbly" people, but the pool and lake made us feel so happy those days.
I think most people are responsible but the few do ruin for others sadly, however local councils do need to cherish and develop our open spaces and recreational grounds a bit more I think.
Thanks again Irene as always ❤️🙏
@@comealongdear ❤️❤️
18€ for 4 hours parking is a difficult one, however that looks like a lifetime memory moment and you'll have forgotten all about the 18€ long before the memory of the experience fades.
That gorge was a bit of us, but again was the memory worth the cost? It's hard when you know there are similar places in the world for a lot less but we have to say both did look that little bit extra special.
As for Steve swimming, Mr Baywatch looked like a professional gliding through the water. Is there an ex Olympian there?
Now we do have to talk about getting in and out of the water. I'm so glad that I'm not the only one that hasn't perfected looking cool while doing it, preferring to go with the walking on hot coals image instead.
Much love Darren and Alison 🤟♥️
Hey guys, that's so nice of you to mention Steve's swimming technique because that's one sporty activity he does enjoy! He is very good indeed when he gets going and looks very streamlined 😁 (I can't do front crawl anymore as my toes, feet and calves immediately cramp up, I've no idea why 🤔)
Unfortunately, much like a meal out, you never know until it's over if the money was worth it or not, but suffice to say, you're right, that was a lifetime memory moment for sure, so all was eventually worth it.
The gorge had its spectacular moments, it just needed fine tuning with our timing because it's a narrow walkway and so so busy. And of course we got unlucky with the water colour, but at least that was rectified at the other end.
Haha I refuse to believe there is a graceful way to leave the water 😂 The stones in Lake Eibsee were really painful and awkward to step on, we nearly toppled over so many times.
Thanks guys, much love ❤️ 🤟
Great video! It was really nice.
Cheers from Sweden 🇸🇪
Thank you ❤️
You swam next to a loon in a world class, drop dead gorgeous mountain fed lake. How cool is that?!! Great value for the money methinks. I'm very glad you went and took us along. Everywhere you looked was incredibly beautiful.
Thank you, it was like a dream, and worth every penny in the end! We couldn't stop staring (and it took 2 hours to walk around the lake). I think it was created from glacial melt water, I'm not sure if that still feeds it or not, we didn't see any obvious streams or rivers flowing in.
From start to finish this video has everything. Love the breathtaking views another lovely cuppa tea in the morning. The water looked amazing bet it felt amazing on the feet tho in the heat. You both have very hot bodies. Don’t put yourselves down.good to see that twinkle back in your eyes by the pool truly enjoying the experience. Looks very peaceful.
Ahh thank you so much Paul 🥰 That means a lot to hear, it's hard not to feel self-conscious sometimes taking your clothes off, because you rarely get the chance to do it in the UK 😂 No way were we missing the opportunity here though and it was perfect in the heat. We were so happy by that pool you're right, it was one of those blissful moments that seemed perfect. It was nice to feel properly relaxed.
Thank you again as always ❤️🙏
Guys, I'm glad you remembered the sun cream Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful just amazing sights. Thanks, guys maybe get a couple of hats for cover for that heat ( old woman's wise words ) 😂
Take care boys Thank you once again 💙💙
Good evening, and thank you so much ❤️ We were bowled over by the scenery here. Definitely need those hats - especially with the shorter hair! Wise words indeed 😄❤️🙏
Woo amazing
Honestly think it was the most beautiful place we've ever seen!
ah loved this video. The river with the two colours was beautiful. just a suggestion for your feet on the rocky surfaces/for swimming buy some aqua shoes, absolute gamechanger. :)
Thank you! ❤️ Funnily enough we do have some swim shoes, but they get used so rarely, we keep forgetting them when we actually do go for a swim!
The river split with the colour change was very surreal to see, just a shame we didn't get the blue one in the gorge 😂
I was in Garmisch-Partenkirchen a few weeks ago. Did you see the ski jumping site? I’m not in to sports but standing at ground level looking up those “tracks”, wow. You can actually see part of it in the upper right corner when you are in the pool/lake. It was so hot when I was there, I didn’t know about the lake 🤷♀️ well we can’t see everything.
Hello, ah yes we did, we didn't have time to film it sadly! But fully agree with you - it looks terrifying! 😬 We were impressed with the sort of colosseum look of the audience area down below. Should've featured all that in the video really!
The swimming pool bit (if you mean where we first swam and were sat chatting on the grass) was right around the corner from that! But despite its size is easy to miss as it's all walled in and didn't seem massively over signposted. Lake Eibsee was a short drive away however. But there's so much to see there you'd need a lot longer than we did! Thanks for watching 🤗 ❤️
@@comealongdearyeah it did have a Colosseum look. Wouldn’t have minded a swim. It was so hot.
I have always liked swimming on hot days as it is a great way to have a pee. I enjoy your banter, it has a peter cook and dudley moore (derek and clive) feel about it. The scenery is nice but these carparks are crazy expensive. Have you thought about getting solar power?
😂😂😂 That is a good point, and in some ways less stressful than peeing on a trail somewhere when you're desperate and looking frantically around you hoping a group of people don't come around the corner and see you - meanwhile, you've peed a bit on yourself because you're too busy looking to see if anyone's coming 🤦♂️🙈
We do have a portable solar panel which we use to charge up our battery back, which can then charge laptops etc. It would be easier on the roof though!
Thank you for the compliment and for watching ❤️🙏😍
All I could think about was Daniel Craig coming out of the water when I watched Stephen 👍😉❤️
Then Dan walks out, and…. 😂😂😂😂❤️🥂xxx
You deleted my reply!? 😉😂😂😂❤️
I guess you have left the Bavaria part of Germany now, but if you ever come there again I think you should visit Königsee. I was there in 2014 and it was absolutely spectacular!
We have unfortunately, but that will be one to go back to if we ever return as I think we initially had it on the list! There's just so much to see (even in one region!) even travelling in a van can only cover so much, although we're not complaining obviously 😂
@@comealongdear I recommend Konigsee too. It's even more beautiful than Lake Eibsee. It's like a deep fjord with sapphire blue to emerald green water, apparently the cleanest water of any lake in Germany, and at the very end is Germany's highest waterfall. It is very touristy though, probably even more touristy than Eibsee.
Thanks for seconding that recommendation, now we know we have to go back to see it! ❤️ Sometimes, like in Prague, touristy is worth it to see something- as usually there's a reason why it's touristy in the first place ❤️
@@comealongdear I completely agree. Places are usually touristy for a good reason. :) However, I felt that with the very high praise I also needed to give you a little warning, because it can be VERY touristy, meaning it'll be packed with people. All the gorgeous pictures you see of Konigsee online seem as if it's a secluded natural paradise, in reality there were probably two dozen people right behind the photographer, waiting for their turn to make that exact same shot. ;)
That being said, Konigsee is among the most beautiful and stunning places you can visit in the entire Alps. But you need to come in summer or early autumn when the leaves have just turned gold or ruby.
Basingstoke 🤣 I used to live near there 🤣
I think we parked up there once! I don't know why I said it, it was the first British town that came to mind for some reason 😂
$$$ Ouch!
Lovely seeing you guys enjoy the swim, especially the one with the mountains.
But (grumpy old man rant) that Bloody Music! I had to crank the volume down, then up again to hear you talk.
OK, in the wheel cog thingy I did find a volume stabilizer. It helped some, but the music volume still made me grind my teeth.
Have you tried park4night to find park ups?
Cheers.
Jon in rural BC, Canada
Hi Jon, aahh I'm so sorry 🙈 We do enjoy putting the music in to accompany scenery and I never turn it up beyond its normal point (unlike our voices which I have to turn up so they come through in places). I try not to have too much music while we're talking (or at least very low when we do) so I assume you mean when it transitions from a talking bit to sudden music over scenery, is the bits you find jarring?
I'd be interested if anyone else has the same issue because I'd hate to stop using music. One thing I find, is once the video's done, the volume levels and sound quality is vastly different depending on what device it's played on. Sometimes for better, sometimes a lot worse. Unfortunately, I'm not very tech-minded so I'd struggle with the real fine tuning of such things.
I think sometimes it depends on the song choice as well. I could try to turn it down and see if that makes a difference without detracting from the music itself. We get a lot of people who seem to enjoy the music so I feel a bit unsure what to do, but perhaps for the next one I could turn one song down and see how that goes as a starting point.
Anyway, glad you enjoyed the swim! 😍❤️ We do use Park4Night a lot, it's very handy even if it has its critics.
Thanks Jon 👍
@@comealongdear Yes, when it switches from you talking with soft music in the background to just music, the music is so very loud. Maybe it's just me, being an old man, that it bothers. I do love the other content. :)
~ Jon
Well Jon, you've certainly got good hearing for an older man 😂😉 It might be specific to your device, I'm not sure if playing it on something else will make a difference, but I'll experiment with the next one and turn one or two tracks down a bit and see what effect it has 😊 Have a great day ❤️
You boys are having just too much of a good time. So unfair, but a great vlog all the same!
Aww no we feel bad now (well, not that bad 😉😂). We do feel so lucky to be doing this, and keep thinking what a funny, exciting part of our lives it will be to look back on if we get to old age! Very grateful for the opportunity and makes the difficulties/sacrifices worth it. Thank you and glad you enjoyed the video 🥰❤️🙏
Really enjoy your videos. The lake and gorge looked amazing
Thank you lynda ❤️🙏 Believe it or not the lake looked even more blue/green and clear in person than the video showed. We have never seen anything like it, such a pleasure to swim in ❤️
Wear sunhats , they keep you cool and stop you getting sun/ heatstroke , otherwise your heads will literally boil , you'll be surprised how much better and cooler you feel , loving your videos, a super couple ,scenery etc is beautiful! ♥️🙏🏼🥰
Oh we really need to remember that, we're terrible for it. I think since I (Dan) starting having my hair really short, I've noticed the intensity of the sun on my scalp a lot more, so sunhats definitely need to be purchased! And thank you so much, we appreciate that 🥰❤️
Must have been nice with the cooler temperatures in the gorge and the woods, right?
Definitely was! The spray in the gorge especially was so refreshing. The heat was very intense on those days, which made the swims all the more satisfying (and easier to adjust to the water!)
Gents, great to see you BOTH 😂 enjoying Bavaria. Myself the wife and dog travelled around Europe last year for 12 months. Are you going to Fussen? As it’s down the road from you, great place also great castle’s.
Good morning, yes pretty amazing that even our resident serial complainer enjoyed the majority of it 😂😉 Wow 12 months! Did you do that in a van? How amazing to go off exploring for that long 😍 Sadly we skipped Fussen as we had to make tracks quite quickly after that, but there's still a few more sights left to show in Germany to round off our trip ❤️
Yes we travelled in a van, we loved it. Looking forward to your future videos. 👍🏻
What an experience, you must have packed in a lot in 12 months! And thank you 😊
Great video guys.
Thank you Jimmy ❤️
beautifull vlog....and 10 euros for that wieuw is kinda ok for me so stop complaining LOL Loved it.......18 euros for 4 hours now that is absurd.....
Thank you Robert 😊 The joke being that the 18 euros we think ended up far more worth it for the lake! The gorge was fantastic but so crowded on a small walkway! It was a bit stressful trying to film it successfully 😂 Still, very glad we got to see it
Now you have a change of UK government people might be able to respect themselves and their surroundings more? That lake is beautiful, I wonder if the duck has to pay to stay? 👏And yes yo would both look fab in bucket hats.
The duck has to pay by putting up with us annoying tourists infiltrating his lake I expect 😉 A change of government here has been much needed and it's very surreal to see (mostly) a normal bunch of people with (mostly, again) decent policies and trying to reverse terrible ones. Not that it's perfect by any means, but I can't remember the last time it didn't feel like a cartoon villain line-up. Anyway, not that that will affect public behaviour much I expect 😂 To be fair, most people are sensible and respectful, like with anything it's just a minority that can ruin it for the rest (like with vanlife), but really the bigger problem is local councils investing in infrastructure I think and erasing what's been lost or not looking after what we have. But hey, what do we know! We all like to pull out our soapbox every now and again, even if we aren't sure of the facts 😂
📸 With hard standing car park charges literally gouging, often with no liability for loss or damage, I wonder if driving around in a foreign plated vehicle, registered in a different country even matters?
No ANPR in a car park will have that stored. Let them issue a ticket, in the hope you pay it, for so as long as you don't pay it, they never have an address to escalate the matter.🤔
Hello, yes we have often wondered the same and heard that speeding tickets often don't get issued to foreign drivers. Not always true however, but sometimes! This car park, however, had one of those low barriers, so we couldn't leave until we paid unless we drove through the barrier 😂 I like your thinking though and suspect it could work under other circumstances 😉
sometimes you have to suck it up and pay!! Being in nature will always go against the grain, as should be there for everyone to enjoy - but 🤷♀
Aye, indeed you're right! Ultimately, if we want to do something enough, we'll pay regardless - and then debate whether it was worth it or not afterwards. I think the gorge would've been much better early morning, and of course we were unlucky in that the water wasn't blue that day. Still, an experience nonetheless, and apparently it's amazing in winter as big icicles hang in the gorge 😍
Put a shirt to cover your chest