Jane and I traveled last Fall to the Netherlands and rented a Tonke, known in Europe as a "demountable". The coach can be removed from the Mercedes Sprinter exactly as our American truck campers.
We traveled through Germany and spent time in Denmark. We asked members of RV.Net who were familiar with European travel about our trip. Their advice was invaluable.
We had a blast and wanted to share this article with the folks here on RV.Net
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We traveled through Germany and spent time in Denmark. We asked members of RV.Net who were familiar with European travel about our trip. Their advice was invaluable.
We had a blast and wanted to share this article with the folks here on RV.Net
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In Germany, kids (!) get 6 weeks of holidays in summer !!!
Working people get a total of between 25 and 30 days of vacation for the whole year. Many families spent their holidays in summer between 2 and 3 weeks of duration.
As their are 16 "states" or "provinces" every state has a different start of the summer holidays in order to avoid traffic jams and to avoid overbooking of holiday resorts or hotels. So summer holidays in Germany are stretched between June and September, but every state with a max. of 6 weeks.
And - sorry - there are really no notable "work ethics" between eastern and western people (any more).
In the contrary, I strongly recommend to visit some eastern parts of Germany, the landscape and the villages are really beautiful !
and I recommend the wine region of Saale-Unstrut:
In Germany, kids (!) get 6 weeks of holidays in summer !!!
Working people get a total of between 25 and 30 days of vacation for the whole year. Many families spent their holidays in summer between 2 and 3 weeks of duration.
As their are 16 "states" or "provinces" every state has a different start of the summer holidays in order to avoid traffic jams and to avoid overbooking of holiday resorts or hotels. So summer holidays in Germany are stretched between June and September, but every state with a max. of 6 weeks.
And - sorry - there are really no notable "work ethics" between eastern and western people (any more).
In the contrary, I strongly recommend to visit some eastern parts of Germany, the landscape and the villages are really beautiful !
and I recommend the wine region of Saale-Unstrut:
Don't forget that even both German countries merged quite few years ago, they still have different work ethics, while old habits usually last for 30-40 years.
It is different.
Most of European countries will give 4-5 weeks vacations to long-term workers.
Paris is known to become partly dead city in the middle of the summer, when most of the residents head to beach resorts.
When I was growing up in communistic Poland, I was able to accumulate vacations coming from paid vacations and credits I got for education.
Finally when I took vacation, it made 45 work days, or over 2 months out of the office. Colleagues had to cover.
In US in today's economy lot of companies send the workers on unpaid vacations when the orders slow down.
Lot of my California friends have no problem to add non-paid to paid vacations and go to Europe for a month.
Per my family experience, traveling is really expanding one's thinking borders. Seeing how things can be done totally different than what we got used to can really change not only how you vacation, but how you do your job as well.
And again, with some knowledge you can vacation in Europe cheaper than in US.
This might be another shock for some >>>> tickets from NY to London are way cheaper than from NY to San Francisco.
Even Paris and Rome can come cheaper most of the time.
Most of European countries will give 4-5 weeks vacations to long-term workers.
Paris is known to become partly dead city in the middle of the summer, when most of the residents head to beach resorts.
When I was growing up in communistic Poland, I was able to accumulate vacations coming from paid vacations and credits I got for education.
Finally when I took vacation, it made 45 work days, or over 2 months out of the office. Colleagues had to cover.
In US in today's economy lot of companies send the workers on unpaid vacations when the orders slow down.
Lot of my California friends have no problem to add non-paid to paid vacations and go to Europe for a month.
Per my family experience, traveling is really expanding one's thinking borders. Seeing how things can be done totally different than what we got used to can really change not only how you vacation, but how you do your job as well.
And again, with some knowledge you can vacation in Europe cheaper than in US.
This might be another shock for some >>>> tickets from NY to London are way cheaper than from NY to San Francisco.
Even Paris and Rome can come cheaper most of the time.
Everything is more expensive in Europe and Tonke, being one of the kind on the market, hand build sure is not going to be cheap.
Looking at the picture, looks to me that Tonke has US boat build quality.
Sure far way from stapled toothpicks and particle board technology used in popular TC.
Looking at the picture, looks to me that Tonke has US boat build quality.
Sure far way from stapled toothpicks and particle board technology used in popular TC.
