One of the reasons I blog, it’s more for me than other people. It’s a useful reminder for me about what I have eaten, what I have cooked, and as in this post challenges when cooking on holiday. So when planning and packing for a trip through France to Germany this July staying at an Eurocamp in Southern Germany, it was useful to refer to this blog post about self-catering when staying at La Croix Du Vieux Pont. I posted my thoughts on Le Grand Paris in Nesles-la-Vallée earlier.
In Germany we were staying in Landal Warsberg, close to Saarberg. It was an almost identical caravan to the one we stayed at in Le Grand Paris in Nesles-la-Vallée.
It was a two bedroom caravan which came with a well-equipped kitchen including a proper gas hob. However it did not have an oven, just a small combi over, and unlike other Eurocamp parks we have stayed at there was no outside gas barbecue.
I think we could have had a charcoal barbecue, but there wasn’t one provided, and I didn’t bring one with us. I wasn’t going to buy one for the four nights we were there, knowing for at least one night we would eat out, and one night we would be in Cologne watching the football.
I was glad to bring my own knives, as the provided knife was very small and very blunt! Always seems luck of the drawn what kitchen utensils and equipment you will get, usually there isn’t detail on the booking site, or on review sites. Alas there was a glass chopping board, I meant to bring my own chopping board with me, but forgot to pack it.
I appreciated the big fridge we had, and the freezer section. On self-catering holidays in caravans, in the UK, the fridge can be quite small.
In the end I cooked two meals in the caravan, pan fried meat with salad. As with our French campsite, I missed having a proper oven. For one meal I did pop to the camp restaurant and brought some French fries to go with lunch one time. I planned to do the same with an evening meal, but they had stopped serving takeaway at 6pm.
I did take my coffee machine with me, as I do like proper coffee, and don’t like drinking instant.
Missed having a barbecue.