We tried very hard to get to the Ring on Saturday, but what looked like a short dash on the map was in reality a long drive, with early evening threatening to become late evening we realised that

A) We were still 20 or 30 miles from the ring

B) We had no idea as to the location of the campsite

So we started looking for any available campsite, youth hostel,lay bay or hollowed out tree in which to spend the night.

As luck would have it we found a really nice campsite near Gerolstien, the owners had long since stopped serving food but were happy for us to pitch anywhere we liked, so with our new"pop up" tents we happily parked near the stream and amazed the other campers as our tents erected themselves in less than 3 seconds. Magnificent.