It was wet all the way from Colmar as we headed towards the spacious motorhome parking at the leisure centre in Singen, a small town close to the German border with Switzerland. It cost us €10 for a night’s parking and fresh water was free. We almost stayed 2 nights because of the non-stop rain, but at lunchtime on the Monday, the cloud cleared and the sun came out so we packed up, dumped our waste, filled with fresh water and headed towards Lake Constance while making sure not to head into Switzerland.
We arrived in Meersburg in the late afternoon and headed for the 3 motorhome parking areas located on the outskirts of town. The first one we approached was fairly full, with just a few spaces remaining, but it was on quite a slope. The next stellplatz was only 100metres or so up the road and was completely empty except for 3 vans, so we parked in there.
It was no more than a 15 minute walk into the town so off we headed to see what it was like.
Meersburg is ‘germanic’; it’s clean; it’s tidy; it looks prosperous. Unlike in France, it’s rooflines are horizontal and walls are vertical. Very ordered.
Meersburg is a very tidy little town that overlooks Lake Constance, or Bodensee as the Germans call it. Across the lake you can see Switzerland
Here are a few of the photographs we took while wandering around the town/village centre.
There were so many vines growing in the fields and on the slopes around Meersburg and all along Lake Constance, I didn’t know this is a wine producing area. Don’t you just live and learn?
The area, pretty much all the way from Singen to Lindau, is an apple growers paradise. There were orchards plush with fruit as far as the eye could see. Not traditional English style orchards with old sprawling apple trees. These were fruit cages or nets with thousands of closely planted apple trees grown as cordons though vertical. The fruits were mostly red, but I didn’t get to see what the variety was. I presumed the apples were grown for juice or maybe cider.