Talking about our plan for this winter

We knew we weren't driving anywhere on Friday, so we took our time in the morning and it was almost 11am by the time we went out for a walk. I thought the bike trail was going to follow the water, but it ended up in between farmers fields with hedges so there wasn't much of anything to see. 

Still, we did 6 kms (3.7 miles), in an hour, so not a bad pace.

In the afternoon, we watched the boats go by...

Wood chips?

This one is sitting high, so it must be empty.

Lots of pleasure craft too.

In the morning, they had said it was going to start to clear around noon and the sun would make an occasional appearance. But as noon, and then one, and then two o'clock went by without any sun, the forecast kept putting it off.

We didn't see the sun until sunset!

At one point, we saw this hole in the clouds.

Blue sky!

While we were sitting watching the boats, we were figuring out our plan for this coming winter.

Due to the Schengen visa rules, we are only allowed 90 days in the Schengen visa countries (this includes most of the European Union) out of any rolling 180 day period.

We have been in Europe since June 11th so by the time we leave we will have used up 64 of our 90 days. That means that when we return October 1st, we will have 26 days to get out of the Schengen zone. 

It will be starting to cool off by October 1st, so we will head south right away. We want to stop at the Adria motorhome factory in Slovenia to see where Max was born...lol.

From there, we will head into Croatia, although Croatia campgrounds are typically expensive and it may not be that easy for free camping. I expect it's more difficult on the coast, but we are happy to remain inland. Obviously the weather at the time will have to be taken into consideration as well. 

From there, we will head to Turkey. What route we take will again depend on the weather at the time, although we hope to take Max through Albania. We can also do over three weeks in Greece in December, and still be able to reset the Schengen days to the full 90 once we head back into the EU in the spring.

Then we will do three months along the south coast of Turkey. And probably pop over to Cyprus for some time there as well.

Then next spring we will head first to Germany and decide what to do with our possible residence permit and then north to the Scandinavian countries which was what we had originally planned to do this summer, but we got too late of a start due to Covid restrictions and not being able to get into Max. 

Of course all of this depends on what is going on in the world at the time! 

See the blue thing on this barge?

It's an inflatable swimming pool!

As I said before, many barges are owner operator and they live on the barge, so often the family is with them and they have bicycles and other recreational things with them.

Before sunset, we saw a couple of hot air balloons going up.

Finally, there's the sun.

Ruth made a delicious lasagna for dinner.

Yum!

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