With welcome to the special edition of check in today were accompanying dw, traveling reporters and the endless adventurer youtube. Ers allison and eric dealer on their tour through Central Europe in an electric camperdown will be taking us to tourist hotspots in germany, austria and italy, with things kick off in the south of germany and munich, the capital bavaria. I everyone. My name is eric al. Hello, and we are teaming up with dw travel and going up electric camper band roads it through year and we have done a lot of road trips in our travels, mostly in the us, and almost always would big gas guzzling vehicle. But this time were doing things a little bit differently since were in an electric campaign. That means no, thats required. Yeah. But it only gets just over 300 kilometers for a full charge. So that means were gonna have to be a little bit more strategic with when and how we reach our yet. Its going to be super important because we are planning to go around 2000 kilometers here, starting up here in germany. They will be going to austria, northern italy all the way down to the coast, and then eventually making their way back here in our challenge is to discover as much as humanly possible, while also being a little bit more ego conscious than what would be on our typical road trip. So thats going to be no gas, no disposable cuts, and really just reducing our weights as much as we can. We may fail at this goal, but were going to do our best. All right, enough time to get this road trip officially under way. Were heading about 100 kilometers south germany. Tall is. Lets do with the guys. Weve stumbled on the cutest little germantown that were driving through. We want to take a stab of pronouncing garbage part partic, kirchen. Yeah, garments, part of kirk and thats the one. But its pretty incredible. It is super charming in the fitting of the base of all these mountain clouds are whispering around if we didnt have a date with the tallest mountain in germany, we would have to stop here. Again. Im not gonna lie. When we landed in munich, i wasnt super stoked because i wasnt ready to be back in a big city. But now that weve left and were in the countryside, im realizing how much i missed here of these views, these tiny towns. Its just so beautiful and exciting. Ah ah, we have made it to the very 1st campsite of our road trip. It is actually at the zig spits resort, and it sits just beneath the mountain. Thats it right over there. You cant tell its a lot taller than that, that the clouds are covering the very tip it up. Yeah, it is so freaking epic. You go. We have such a great view till any all it has its very own access to this cable car that runs from the bottom here at the campsite. Oh, louis to the top. Apparently there is a restaurant up there. I think theres hiking, theres all sorts of stuff where for sure going to be doing that. But before we do, i think we gotta charge this baby app if we can figure it out. Yeah, so so of course our vehicle comes with the typical connector to charge it, but it also comes with a whole heap of adapter. So lets see if we can find the right one. I think this one matches the pedestal over there. The way it works is just line up the orange dots that should kind of pop right on there. And whats right rent with this chord here has this juice booster thing. I dont really know how we use and sowards can see what happens. It is, plug it in, it used as a follow me with like it goes closer. Something open that up in well this light came on and its flashing green. Oh, so well see if were charged. I do. I think that were charging, we got a little red light right there. I would expect it to be green, but those are charging right. Oh yeah, check it out. Charging completed in 10 hours. 20 minutes. Holy cow. Oh, good thing. Were staying overnight. Now that weve got this baby charging, lets take a look on the inside. Lets start with the back. When you open it up, youll notice a system of slides. And this 1st one here is actually your kitchen. In this 1st slide, you have all of your dishes and some cleaning supplies. The 2nd compartment holds all of your eating utensils, as well as a bunch of pots and pans that you can put with. And this 3rd compartment is probably the coolest because it actually has a functioning think that so need, its actually battery powered. It runs into here. And when youre done with the water, it is dump it out or dispose of it appropriately. Easy. Thats right. You guys, we get swill her seat up front. This is so neat. And apparently theres like a whole pool because we can cook in the bag and then even if you have a proper living made super cool name when its time to get back on the road of that down. Slide this back in a place where you go. Awesome. Any the you have a living room n. Last but not least, we have to show you how this bed works right now. The beds about half size and its tucked away in the back. So all you do is pull this leg apple, so its out of the way the chair also put the car down. Well then the whole thing slide up like that to make it about a full size bed data. Big enough to sit on. Yeah. So thats going to wrap up the tour of the camper van it is starting to rain and i think its gonna be raining for the rest of the night. So we are going to set up shop inside. Were gonna show for the rest of the night and then well see you on the top the mountain tomorrow. The next morning theyre heading high up on church bits in a cable car. Hey guys, were officially above the cloud. Check that out. Oh we took the cable car up to the top and it will cost you 50. 00 euros apiece, round trip, but it is worth it just for the views alone. Its absolutely incredible of here. If youre lucky and you come up here on the right day, there will be a cloud in version which means the cloud are lower than the peak. The, youre literally up here above the clouds. Such bits is the highest mountain in germany at 2962 meters above sea level. It sits in southern germany at the austrian border and there are 3 different lift they can take you to the top. We took the to roll a zoom, spits bon, or flam, st. I, right . I a little off that as okay, but you guys, we can recommend during your trip to germany. Check this out. This incredible or what amazing sr here represent the highest point in germany. Oh my god, the views are incredible. Luckily, we do not have the hike all the way up here, but we did have to do a small. How does it get to the star . It is pretty scary. Now got maker with back down at the top of the mountain, theres this huge complex that its still good. All sorts of amazing reading. Theres restaurants, cafe restrooms, of course. And they have this whole level dedicated to the history of the mountain and building everything up here. And how it all came to be, they even have examples of the train cars from all the different iterations on the train. Im assuming this is around the eightys right here. Its been absolutely amazing, just strolling around here and learning about the history of the area. Weve sadly spot way too much time up here, but theres so much more to see on the road. So were gonna get out of here with next up for the to austria. Theyll have to pay told if they want to continue on the roads here. Coming up in our 1st thoughts, a little steep, 10 euros would lower. What does that like . 12 usb or 70 . Some like that. I believe this is the 1st and only today. Yeah. Good. Who did the crowns . The ill come up with can you speak german . Yeah. Nicked that it to business with her doctor and im seeing a sign right there. It looks like car charging or so this one should work. Hopefully its the fast one. Ah, when we started our drive today, it said we had 316 kilometers. Still empty, but we have been going through the mountains and so that quickly dropped. We lost about a 100 kilometers in there. Itll be our 1st time doing it at a charging station. Im very excited because i think itll go very quickly. This is the he said, if you can find one that fits both of these, its the best and should go the fast and lets do it. I think most of the time for a little update on how were doing on our waste reduction go. Typically when we do a road trip in the us, its so easy to just stop for fast food or stop at a gas station. And wed have a bag of trash usually on day one. But im happy to say that this is the only trash weve made just whats in here, which we got a little bit of cheese in me, which we completely forgot. We bought this and then we were like, dang, why did we do that . Yeah, bad on us and then we got a bottle of water but we have been refilling this and well keep doing that throughout our trip so. So far so good. I think thats but better than i thought we were going to. Yeah. And i think everything so far is recyclable, with allison and eric make their way next to madonna, in the italian province of self to role in the city. Eliza valley with quite the view of the dolomites i. Theres tons to do in the area. Im hiking to visiting wineries or you can do like us and head down to the old town, which is filled with all of these amazing structures spanning the century is absolutely beautiful. Yeah, it really is not a bad way to spend a day here in italy. And you can check out some of the amazing castles in the area like this troutman door of castle, which is known for its sprawling gardens and beautiful panoramic views. Yeah, coming up here just for the views alone. Its totally worth it. You can see all the mountains in the area, you can see all the surrounding countryside and the gardens are incredible. They really do cover such a huge area to have hedge mazes over there. There are tons of beautiful, vibrant flowers all over the place and a bunch of really cool look out points. You can get an even higher view of the area. Plus there is an easy charging station in the parking lot here at the castle so well were exploring the beautiful gardens. Are cars getting all charged up . Murano is also known for having some absolutely delicious cuisine. So were gonna straw around gardens a little bit more. And then, i mean, i ah, ah, good for lunch. We can do a restaurant called portia brown, which is right here in the old part of the town. The 1st step we have this is a sampling of all the local meat and a few of the cheeses. Were what were really excited for is this spect noodle. So these are bacon dumplings in as delicious broth normally be covered with chives. But were not a huge child hands or no child spread out of habit. I really for my name to cut into these dumpling, but i read that its actually very implying the dumplings should cut on their own with a fork. And using a knife is rude. I dont know if thats still true nowadays, but ill stick with the. I got a beer here. Oh yes, we got a local beer and a local line to try. I. Time has come to head out of murano. Were actually going to be heading further down south kinda in the middle of nowhere. So we stopped by a Grocery Store load up on some food. Yes, because tomorrow is sunday. I think a lot of things are close and its supposed to be stormy. Is weve got enough provisions to last us for a couple of a little update on the charging situation. So we told you guys we were charging while we were at the castle. Unfortunately, we did something wrong or we didnt tap her card. Right. And we did not really charge at all, were trying desperately to find a charging station. Every single one we go to is either not really there or its deep within a hotel that were not sure how to access it. Now somehow weve been or so stuck in a gated community. Not really sure how to get out of here. I guess me live here now. No, its residence now. Ok, nice lady saw that we were struggling and open the gate for us. So weve left the gated community, at least yall, i have no idea where i am. Im pretty sure the one way street. I am going to be absolute wrong way. But we had to go to a couple more spots. And sadly, the pumps were not working, but i think this one is going to be our lucky pump. You got the thing when we use yesterday. There were thing hopeful. Its hard to tell some of these whether or not you have to pay for some of them have been free and some of them have a little spot to put a card on there. So it turns out this one does require payment, but it should be charging now. Were in luck where officially charged the were back on the road, the phillip took a little bit longer than we were anticipating it was about 45 minutes. And unfortunately the facing that we stopped at was closed down, so there was nothing for us to do that. We had to just kind of get around in here. And we ended up actually leaving a little bit before with the bullying charge, which now i really think might have been a mistake on our end. Weve gone down by about a little over a 100 kilometer charge. While weve only driven about kilometer, its going down about double as fast as were traveling. Yes, thats one thing we learned about this electric vehicle is that you really cant trust the range estimation that it gives me actually monthly, been on the motorway for those 50 kilometers. We only had a couple of turn off. I was not able to go down quickly, but all that aside, we are back on the road and we figured this would be a Good Opportunity to give you guys an idea what its like driving the electric bar. Now that weve had it for a few days, actually just like grabbing any car, accelerate. Just like you would expect, the air conditioning works, all of the amenities are just fine. I dont know if im expecting it to drive anything. Really. The big difference is really just been found that it makes, obviously, when you start up the gas engine while youre driving it in here and it makes a lot of found, this doesnt make but not at all of the sound of the gasoline engine. You just havent here to call your i also just really nice to keep me in the face, but i mean, anywhere we go, we basically have everything we need to stay the night and ask him i expect you can also get a little bit cramped on the inside because we have all of our luggage in here, we have over here. And then of course, 2 of those was pretty tight water the 1st night of the statement actually raining outside which was kind of challenging because that meant if you got outside and they came in, we would track a bunch of mud everywhere that we just had to stay on the inside. Fortunately, there are likely to be that storm tonight and tomorrow inside into an air b me up in the hills so that we can see the drive. And we dont have to worry about her for a couple days. All right, fingers crossed that our charge last long enough to get us to our destination. And that destination is levy co tagami, a small city and south to roll at around 500 meters. The so its going to be pretty close getting up there because right now our range is going down for about 5 to 10 kilometers for every one kilometer because were going up the hill and thats just a whole bunch of switch back to get up to where air b and b is and theoretically the meter shows that we have half the battery left. So i think were going to make it, but its going to suck all the jews down just to get up this hill. Crazy nation. Its on the right. We need you guys with a little bit of charge despair and were at the tip top of this mountain. We get to the end of the road and it turned into like this nasty little with gravel road over here. Yeah. We want to get away from the ground, then we did it. We have arrived at our italian chalet. We told you guys were going to try to charge our vehicle here. So this is what we had to do. So theres no outside outlets. We got to plug up here, got it, going up into this is actually where were saying. So that is just plugged in right here to the outlet and it goes right on down to the car. How long does the say to charge um . 14 hours, 14 hours, thats up for that, and were all right. We have power. Ah, weve got some hot tips for your bucket list. Ah romantic corner tread hotspot for food chair and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off. We go in time for allison and eric dealer to move on to lake. Gotta the largest lake in italy in the north of the country with the water is this amazing Crystal Clear flow. It has the beautiful Rolling Hills with vineyards, little villages, italian villas, speckled throughout the camp site. The were at today is called clamping resort weekend and it is an amazing spot to have all these different pitches for care of and which is what were in right now. Complete with private bathroom over there, which well show you guys in just a minute. But there are also all these different types of accommodations. They have these tet like structures that look like a ton of fun to stay in their little smaller cabin type structures, dotted all throughout the property, somewhat epic lake views some that are kind of more nestled into the woods. So were going to show you guys around our campsite a little bit. We thought a private bathroom, you know, maybe in the state, it would probably be kind of outhouse. I could actually anita. Ringback check this out. If we please find an apartment super clean, were way a whole toilet whole shower. Like even like a towel drying rack. Ah, i love europe. Ah. Oh you got it all set up at our camp site and we have our mobile kitchen here out and ready to cook with making some sort of stew. We just had a bunch of leftover vegetables from our travel, so im gonna put it all together in this and make some delicious dinner. I mean how legit of this looks like you got a Little Kitchen over. So it looked like its like, allisons little cooking show. Just take whatever rush you havent throw in apartment making underneath it. Theres actually what were doing with dinner is served. Yeah. Check it out. Not too bad at all. Huh. Oh, definitely not stu. Its just noodles and pastors us with a bunch of a veggies. All right, were going to eat our delicious dinner. This camp site has wise who are probably going to watch a little movie and our camper van and then tomorrow we are going to go visit this really cool place on lake garda. There is a peninsula that sticks out for the castle on it, and we are all about some castles. Well see there. Good ain thank. Good morning everybody. And welcome to sir me on a this city a very, very special because it is not just a city by the way, this is a city in the lake. Yes, it did on the skinny peninsula that goes, jetting out into lake garda, so it is completely surrounded by this amazing green Crystal Clear water. Its also just a beautiful city. You have all the stone streets that you get to walk through. A bickley old preserved buildings, they do allow cars, though they gotta watch after that when youre walking, talking with them. When you come to the city and you have to visit the castle, which is one of the best preserved castles in all of italy, it was built in the 13th century and has a man made harbor those actually built to protect the castle ships. Were going to walk around the castle for a bit and taking the views and then go explore more of the town. With i can see myself being a princess at this castle. Maybe the queen who knows, you know, dream big little girls out there. At the very tip of the peninsula, youre gonna find these incredible old ruins. Believe it or not, these are the remnants of an old villa that belong to a Roman Emperor in the years 27, b. C to 1480. So these are incredibly old. They belong to octavius caesar. I mean that guy had some epic taste. Can you imagine building a villa on a peninsula like this surrounded by the epic lake b . Im digging this little peninsula. Its so interesting because you walk in to the castle. It seemed very medieval, a very european and then you come back here to these olive trees and these ruined and you all of us and feel very mediterranean. Its so warm and nice out. And its like you stepped into ancient room. I know its while we, we went through so many centuries in just like 10 minutes. One thing there is definitely no shortage out here in ceremony is july out. There is so much delano we decided to split one cone because as you can see it as big as my whole head, we decided to get 2 different flavors. So on top is thank you and underneath is brownie. We are not. This is the small, this is so were good. So warm out here. Weve been Walking Around the city, you dont need water, we just need to know and she was a line. This is a lot of place here. Theres one right back here. Theres one through that door over there. It is on every single one of the really is much so much john. We tried to play ahead this time and we found the charging station in advance. There, i see it back there. Well, will you be able to charge that tech . We made sure it had a restaurant attached to it. Mm hm. This one will work, but i think this is the floor one. This should be the fact that we are still trying to figure this all out, but i think you gotta scan your card, but for you even well, thats a not authorized thing. We got this to work. Finally, already we are all charged up back on the road and we are going to be trading in that late life for the coast to live yall. That is right. Were headed down the coast to the Mediterranean Sea to check out the 5 lands working with terry. And it should be absolutely beautiful down here and thats going to do it. But this episode of the camera being road trip. I hope you guys enjoyed it and i hope youre going to tune in the next couple legs of the road. Theres going to be lots of food and lots of beautiful, you know, much more to go with with ah ah, in good shape hormones. 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