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Also this year I was at the Military Camp at the Infantry School of the Bundeswehr They had a nice camp site at the training area We set up a nice place for us Note the 1984 German Army VW Beetle of forums member "jubifahrer" So after set up our place, time for lunch from a MKT (mobile kitchen trailer) BBQ My lunch

Me & jubifahrer walking the next morning for having breakfast Best weather ever to have breakfast in front of chow tent

The next meal was lunch, made from different rations

Heating water for Freezedried scrambled eggs / bacon Heating a French entree on it´s cooker on a shovel to avoid to burn the grass As we heated water anyways, lets have an "Erbswurst" pea stew too The soup out of the French ration (it´s French "Poisson" means fish and not the English for a toxin ) French entree and soup The opened pouch of the freezedried eggs Using my fork to close the pouch while reconstitution... The pea stew (soup) with a slice of canned EPa bread as "starter" The eggs ready to eat: They were great! I can highly recommend them.

Next dinner was a traditional German dish: Goulash with bread dumglings

The dumplings already in salted water, they need to soak before cooking Open the 2001 Bundeswehr goulash cans Me, the chef in charge, cooking 15 years old goulash Dinner from UGR trays Having dinner from my just bought (€30 ) US Army foldable field table Who wants a bite?! Have a walk in the camp... Nice cars everywhere Even from Switzerland

I´m very happy I got that gadget from parafireboy Perfect opportunity to give it a try, open the pouch pour the hot water Having breakfast Crisp rolls After the breakfast, driving into the German Army Training area, briefing drivers first

The column enters the training area in a huge dust cloud All kind of vehicles The column in front of the (urban combat training) village "Bonnland" Dispatch rider, doing traffic controls Driving over a tank layer bridge Nice "display" Real military offraod Driving 20km crisscross the training area and doing offroad lessons

Returning from all that driving and eating dust, we had lunch...

Another favorite gadget, heating rations while driving: Me & jubifahrer, having MRE lunch After a little excursion I´ll tell about later, we had MREs again for dinner. The 2005 chicken w/ noodles were still great but I didn´t ate the pineapples. The looked "odd", dark and something white had seperated Dessert was a Danish bar No idea what this is It was "soft" with a fruit and nut (?) flavor/taste. It was "OK", but I wouldn´t buy it in a regular store for money Evenings...

Our last breakfast...

Buddy Uwe the chef in charge, frying bacon Me making scrambled eggs Pour the eggs over the bacon Eggs with rye bread, buttered and jam Nice US truck Ready to leave... A very last lunch while driving home "somewhere" In WW2 in Africa, they fried eggs on tanks just from the sun. Trying to warm up an entree the same way...

Bye...bye...

So here is the non Military, non-Rations excursions part. There was Germany´s second biggest castle ruin pretty close so we did a little trip to that place. We drove the way, Hitlers Autobahn "Strecke 46" was planned. You can still see the remains. The signs say "Planned Strecke 46 " "Strecke 46" towards the castle ruin "Burg Homburg" (I can highly recommend to visited that page I linked, very great virtual tour!) Had to walk... Entering the castle where the drawbridge was Built in 1038 - so almost 1000 years old... Walking towards the outer baily to the inner baily Remains of the chapel Note the thickness of the outer wall! My buddy is tall 6,3 ft (1.9 Meters) so the walls where 6.6 feet Kitchen, knights hall and 4 story main house Note the clearance of the door, how small/short peoples were back these days Each "notch" holds a wooden beam where the floor was made on so you can count 4 stories here I hope you enjoyed it, I took 500 pictures and it´s always hard just to share a small selection.

Hi Olli,

i hope now it is ok to answer

It was a great weekend i shared with friends



my view of crossing the launched bridge



a look behind



looking forward to our next ride

bye Rudi

Awesome pics, housil and Rudi - thanks for sharing!