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and welcome to this special edition of check in. today we're accompanying d. w, 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 for very long. i everyone, my name is eric l. hello. and we are teaming with dw travel and going on electric camper band road said through year. and we have done a lot of road trips in our travels mostly in the us, and almost always with big gas guzzling vehicle. but this time we're doing things a little bit differently since we're an electric camper. vane, that means no gas required y'all, but it only gets just over 300 kilometers for a full charge. so that means we're gonna have to be a little bit more strategic with when and how we recharge. well,

you mean 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. and what would be on our to put road trip? so that's going to be no gas, no disposable cups. and really just reducing our weights as much as we can. we may fail at this goal, but we're going to do our best. all right, enough time to get this router officially under way. we're heading about 100 kilometers south to germany. tallest. let's do with the guys. we've stumbled on the cutest little germantown that we're driving through

. we want to take a stab of pronouncing garbage, part partic, kirchen. yeah, garments, part of kirk and that's the one. but it's pretty incredible. it is super charming and fitting at the base of all these mountains. louder. what's been around if we didn't have a date with the tallest mountain in germany, we would have to stop here for sure. i'm not gonna lie. when we landed in munich, i wasn't super stoked because i wasn't ready to be back in a big city. but now that we've left and we're in the countryside, i'm realizing how much i missed here of these views, these tiny towns. it's 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 that's it ran over there.

you can't tell it's a lot taller than that, but the clouds are covering the very tip top. yeah, it is so freaking epic. you guys, we have such a great view til, and y'all, it has its very own access to this cable car that runs from the bottom here at the campsite. oh, the way up to the top, apparently there is a restaurant up there. i think there's hiking, there's 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 adapters. so let's 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. and what's right rent with this chord here has this juice booster thing. i don't really know how we use this. sowards can see what happens. it is, plug it in, it uses the filament with

feel like it goes closer. something open that up in well this light came on and it's flashing green. oh, so what's the for charge? i do. i think that we're charging, we got a little red light right there. i would expect it to be green, but those are charging right. oh yeah, chicken up charging completed in 10 hours. 20 minutes. holy cow. oh, good thing. we're staying overnight. now we've got this baby charging, let's take a look on the inside. let's start with the back. when you open it up, you'll 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. in this 3rd compartment is probably the coolest because it actually has a functioning think that so need is actually battery powered around into here. and

when you're done with the water, you just dump it out or dispose of it appropriately. easy. that's right. you guys will get will, has seats up front. this is so neat. and apparently there is like a whole pool, because then we can cook in the bag and then even the front you have a proper living. super cool. newman's time to get back on the road. right down slide was back in a place where you go. awesome. an easy yeah, i mean the living room, n o n. last but not least, we have to show you how this bed works right now. the beds in about half size and it's tucked away in the back. so all you do is pull this leg out. so it's out of the way the chair also put the car down. well then the whole thing slides up like that to make it about a full size bed. that are big enough for both to sit on. yeah. so that's going to

wrap up the tour of the camper van it is starting to rain and i think it's gonna be raining for the rest of the night. so we are going to set up shop inside. we're gonna show for the rest of the night and then we'll see you on the top of the mountain tomorrow. the next morning, they're heading high up until spits in a cable car. hey guys, we're 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. it's absolutely incredible appear. if you're lucky and you come up here on the right day, there'll be a cloud in version, which means the clouds are lower than the people that you're literally up here above the clouds. such bits is the highest mountain in germany at 2962 meters above sea level. it's, it's in southern germany at the austrian border and there are 3 different lives they can take you to the top. we took the to roll a soup, spits bon off them saying that, right? i a little off that as okay, but you guys we can recommend during your trip to germany. check this out is incredible or what amazing it's are 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 hike just to get to the star. it is pretty scary. now got maker with back down

at the top of the mountain, there's this huge complex that it's still good with all sorts of amazing reading. there's 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. i'm assuming this is around the eighty's right here. it's been absolutely amazing, just strolling around here and learning about the history of the area. we've sadly spot way too much time up here, but there is so much more to see on the road. so we're going to get out of here with the next stop for the to austria. they'll 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 usd or 70, some like that. i believe this is the 1st and only today. yeah. good. who did the crowns? the i'll come up with. can you speak german? yeah. nick. that it filled with. uh huh. okay. and i'm seeing a sign right there. it looks like car charging, right? so this one should work. hopefully it's the fast one. ah. when we started our drive today, it said we had 316 kilometers till empty. but we had been going through the mountains and so that quickly dropped. we lost about a 100 kilometers in there. it'll be our 1st time doing it at a charging station. i'm very excited because i think it'll go very quickly. this is the he said, if you can find one that fits both of these, it's the best and should go the fast and read through it. i think most

of the time for a little update on how we're doing on our waste reduction go. typically when we do a road trip in the us, it's so easy to stop for fast food or stop at a gas station. and we'd have a bag of trash usually on day one. but i'm happy to say that this is the only trash we've made just what's in here, which we got a little bit of cheese in me, which we completely forgot. we bought this and they were, 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 we'll keep doing that your other trip so so far so good. i think that's but better than i thought we were gonna. yeah. and i think everything so far is recyclable, with allison and eric make their way next to madonna, in the italian prophets of self to roll. and the city lies in a valley with quite the view of the dolomites i. there's tons to do in the area. um, 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 in beautiful panoramic views. yeah, coming up here just for the views alone. it's 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 to beautiful gardens. are cars getting all charged up? marano is also known for having some absolutely delicious cuisine. so we're gonna straw around gardens a little bit more. and then i'm with, ah,

a lunch, the cash to a restaurant called parser brown, which is right here in the old part of the town. first step we have, this is a sampling of all the local needs and a few of the cheeses. we're what we're really excited for is this spect noodle. so these are beacon dumplings in this delicious broth, normally be covered with chives, but we're not a huge child hands or no child's breath out of habit. i used for my name to cut into these dumpling, but i read that it's actually very implying dumpling should cut on their own with a fork, and using a knife is rude. i don't know if that's still true nowadays, but i'll stick with the. i got a beer here. oh yes, we got a local beer and a local line to try and i

time has come to head out of murano. we're actually going to be heading further down south kind 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 it's supposed to be stormy. is we've 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 didn't type of card, right. and we did not really charge at all, we're trying desperately to find a charging station. every single one we go to is either not really there or it's deep within a hotel that we're not sure how to access it. now somehow we've been ourselves stuck in a gated community. not really sure how to get out. i guess we live here now. no,

it's residence now. ok, nice lady saw that we were struggling and open the gate for us. so we've left the gated community, at least y'all, i have no idea where i am. i'm pretty sure the one way street. i am going the absolute wrong way. 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. does the same when we use yesterday. so we're hopeful it's 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. we're in luck where officially charged the we're back on the road, the bill of took a little bit longer than we were anticipating it. took about 45 minutes. unfortunately, the feeling that we stopped that was closed down. so there was nothing for us to do that. we had to just kind of sit around in here and we ended up actually leaving a little bit before it was fully charge, which now i really think might have been a mistake on our end. we've gone down by about a little over

a 100 kilometer charge while we've only driven about kilometers going down about double as fast as we're traveling. yeah, that's one thing we learned about this electric vehicle is that you really can't trust the range estimation that it gives me actually been on the motorway for those 50 kilometers. we only had a couple of turn off. so 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 it's like driving the electric more now that we've had it for a few days actually just like driving any car accelerate just like you would expect, the air conditioning works, all of the amenities are just fine. i don't know if i'm expecting it to drive anything. but the big difference is really just the that it makes, obviously, when you start up the gas engine while you're driving, it can here and it makes a lot of found. this doesn't make much sound at all of the sound of a gasoline engine. you just kind of, you that. com i also just really

nice that to me and it contains that. i mean, anywhere we go, we can basically have everything we need to stay the night. and as you might 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 the 2 of those was pretty tight quarters. but the 1st night if he stayed with actually raining outside, which was kinda challenging because that meant if you got outside and came in, we tracked a bunch of mud everywhere. so basically we just had to stay on the inside. fortunately, there are likely to be that storm tonight and tomorrow we decided to be up in the hills so that we can see nice drive and we don't have to worry about charging for a couple days. all right, fingers crossed that our charge last long enough to get it to our destination. and that destination is levy co tagami, the small city of south to roll at around 500 meters.

so it's 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 we're going up the hill and there's just a whole bunch of switch back to get up to where air b and b is and the radically, the meter shows that we have half the battery left. so i think we're going to make it, but it's going to suck all the jews down just to get up the hill. that's crazy. yeah . destination is on the right. we need you guys with a little bit of charge the spare. and we are the tippy top of this man. we get to the end of the road and it turn 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. this is what we had to do because no outside outlets. we got it plugged up here. gotta go enough into this is actually what we're saying. so that is just plugged in right here to that outlet. and it goes right on down to the kern. how long does the say the charge um 14 hours

14 hours? is that something that i we have fowler oh . we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah magic corner trip hotspot for food chairs and some great cultural memorials to boot d 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 these beautiful rolling hills with vineyards, little villages, italian villas, speckled throughout the camp site. the we're at today is called clamping resort weekend, and it is an amazing spot. they have all these different pitches for caravans,

which is what we're in right now. complete with private bathroom over there, which will show you guys in just a minute. but there are also all these different types of accommodations they have . these tend like structures that looked like a ton of understand, their little smaller cabin type of structures dotted all throughout the property, somewhat epic lake views some that are kind of more nestled into the woods. so we're going to show you guys around our campsite a little bit. we thought of present bathroom, you know, maybe in the state it would probably be kind of outhouse cuz this is actually uneasy sector. so if they please find in an apartment super clean, super wait a whole toilet whole shower, like even like a towel drying rack. ah, okay, i love your ellen i i got an all set up at our campsite and we have our mobile kitchen here out and ready to cook with making some sort of stew. we just had

a bunch of left over vegetables from our travels. i'm gonna put it all together in this cut and make some delicious dinner. yeah, i mean how legit does this look? looks like you got a little kitchen all the so it's like it's like allison's little cooking show. just take whatever much you haven't throw in a pot and then making as many that there's actually what we're doing the dinner is served. yeah. check it out. not too bad at all. huh. oh definitely not still. it's just noodles and pastor's house with a bunch of a veggies, iraq. we're gonna eat our delicious dinner. this campsite has wise, who are probably gonna 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 . we'll see there. good aim.

thank . good morning everybody. and welcome to sir miano. this city a very, very special because it is not just the city by the way, this is a city in the lake. yes, it is on the skinny peninsula that goes, jetting out into lake garda. so it is completely surrounded by this amazing green crystal clear water is 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 got to watch after that when you're 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 that was actually built to protect the castle ships. we're going

to walk around the castle for a bit and taken the views and then go explore more of the town. with i can see myself being a princess at this castle. may be the queen. oh no, it's no dream big little girls out there. at the very tip of the peninsula, you're 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, and that guy had some epic taste. can you imagine building a villa on a peninsula like this surrounded by the epic lake b? i'm vegan, this little peninsula. it's so interesting because you walk into the castle. it

seems very medieval, a very european and then you come back here to these olive trees and these ruined and you all this and feel very mediterranean. it's so warm and nice out. and it's like you stepped into ancient room. i know it's while we, we went through so many centuries in just like 10 minutes. one thing there is definitely no shortage out here in here. me on me is jill auto. there is so much delano we decided to split one code because as you can see is as big as my whole head, we decided to get 2 different flavors. so on top is youth and underneath is brownie . we are not. this is the small, this is so very good. so warm out here. we've been walking around the city, you don't need water, we just need to know. and she was alignment. a lot of place here. there's one right back here. there's one through that door over there. it is on every single one of the really is much so much john.

we tried to play the head this time and we found the charging station in advance. oh it's 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 fast. we're still trying to figure this all out, but i think you gotta skin your card, but for you even well, that's 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 league like for the coastal life you. all right, we're down the coast to the mediterranean sea to check out the land, working with terry. and it should be absolutely beautiful down here, and that's going to do it for this episode of the camera being road trip. i hope you guys enjoyed it, and i hope you're going to tune in the next couple of the road. there's going to be

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