Touring in Germany.

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Rainman
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Touring in Germany.

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I'm touring in Germany this year and cooking on a trangia that I have a gas connection for what type of canisters are available can you get the screw type or the ones you have to pierce,I will be taking a bit of kit that allows you to use the ones you have to pierce pluse best place to buy gas.
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jamesgilbert
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I can recommend the Adventure Company shop in Heilbronn (I lied on a recent thread on this subject, it was Heilbronn and not Karlsruhe): http://www.adco-hn.de/

This is the only place I needed to buy gas while in Germany, and they stocked the thread-style resealable cartridges. I assume it would be the same in most other outdoors / camping shops in the country.
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I've been touring in Germany for many years and can offer the following advice.

Screw canisters - you can sometimes get these at campsites but i've found the best easily found source to be Karstadt Sport department stores - think John Lewis. The majority will do a good selection of outdoor kit including screw top gas canisters. Stores like Globetrotter also do them.

Pierce top - becoming more difficult to find as they are replaced by CG's different screw top tins. However theres a good chance you can find them at the above places and in the big Garden Centre places (Gartnerie).
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Rainman
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Thanks for the info.
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