From Susl and Mac,
Stuttgart area, Germany.
Elephant meeting in Loh Thurmansbang Bavaria Germany last weekend in January.
Hi Mal,
want to make envious and tell you a bit about the elephant meeting last weekend in Bavaria. Everything was covered in snow, the hills, the tents, the motorbikes. Ideal weather, sunny and quite cold….which was good, because no mood.
A good idea was to arrive there on the Wednesday before the weekend in order to get one of the popular flat pieces of campground because the area is very steep. We took Macs good old Eastgerman twostroke MZ bikes, a single ETZ 251 and a sidecar ETZ 250 towing a trailer made in 1949. We had loads of luggage, especially Mac, because he wanted to make my first trip there as cosy as possible. For him, it was the 14th time since 1985. Beside the ordinary camping stuff we took a chainsaw, a snowshovel and a 3feet- barbeque. Gascookers don’t work properly at a temperature of 10 degrees below zero. It’s always good to have a little bottle of snaps, because normally most other drinks freeze…..but not in our tent, because as well we had the world greatest gas heating.
You can buy wood and straw there, so you don’t have to sleep on the frozen ground and we could warm up feet and beers at our fires. Also little snacks were offered, but most people did there own cooking.
Everything was very well organized, but without any party tents, bands or such stuff. Maybe the toilet situation could be improved…… But prizes were given to for example the farest visitor. So: British bikers could have a chance for getting famous. People from whole Europe were there, from Russia to Spain.
50% were sidecars. An interesting point was the technical customizing. Snowchains, Skis under the tyres, handwarmers, threewheelers with mobile loos.
Hey, it was really great fun! It was my first, but not my last time. Hope to see you British folks there next year….especially other women……
