#2 "You guys are still here!"

October 16-18, 2021: Erfurt

F.: If you live in a big city like us and don't have your own garage, the whole neighborhood finds out what's happening with our van and how the conversion is progressing. When you start the conversion work and tell people your plan and that you want to go on tour at the end of September, but you're still working on it in early October, the voices get louder: "You guys are still here! Haven't you left yet? Will your trip happen this year?" Yes, every good big project takes a little longer to complete. On Saturday morning, we just had to clean the apartment and pack up the remaining things. By early evening, the time had finally come. The apartment key was handed in - there was no turning back. We finally set off south. The destination was Erfurt. There, we wanted to visit Jenny's sister Helen and her friend Matze. However, shortly before Erfurt, Helen informed us that there were no free parking spaces in her neighborhood anymore and that it wouldn't change due to the advancing time on Saturday evening. So we decided to rest at the next available parking space for the night and then drive into Erfurt the next morning.

We stayed overnight at the parking space in Sondershausen. However, the night didn't feel like the south. The temperature dropped to 2 degrees at night, so we could test whether we were well prepared for winter in southern Europe. Thanks to a heater and a thick blanket, the night was quite bearable. I just have to get used to the cool temperatures right after folding up the blanket. After all, in the van, the interior temperature dropped to 9 degrees at these outside temperatures. We had breakfast in the warm living room in Erfurt.

On Sunday and Monday, we spent a lot of time with Helen and Matze, who gave us their very own city tour. In addition, we took care of some smaller errands and rearranged some things in the van, as many items were just roughly thrown onto the bed at the end of loading in Hannover. Erfurt, in my opinion, like many cities in the former GDR, has a very special charm that lies somewhere between renovation backlog from the 50s/60s and old beautiful buildings from the Middle Ages to the Kaiser era.

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