Germany, Sweden

Heading For Sweden

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Saturday 14th July 2018

Today we are heading for Sweden. We were booked on the 18:30hr TT Lines ferry from Rostock to Trelleborg so we had a casual pack up of the car and caravan. Lutz & Antje had an appointment in Berlin so we said our goodbyes and proceeded into Oranienburg for much needed supplies.

Around noon we were ready to roll and set off onto the autobahn. Almost immediately we were slowed to a crawl by road works and very heavy traffic. There were long sections of quite narrow lanes and 60kph speed limits.

Eventually we started to make good progress, well, 80kph progress which is the speed limit for untested caravans in Germany.

After a halfway stop for coffee we arrived in good time for our ferry, the delightfully named MS Huckleberry Finn.

Towing Kilometres – Today: 219 Cumulative: 17,130

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Germany

Glienicke Bridge, Potsdam

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Thursday 12th July 2018

We had both seen the film, The Bridge of Spies, with the brilliant Mark Rylance and Tom Hanks, and Ray remembered, during his
childhood, the U-2 spy plane incident, which ultimately involved a prisoner exchange on Glienicke Bridge.

The bridge was about a one hour drive from our location in Oranienburg. The bridge connects Potsdam, the capital city of Brandenburg with Berlin and crosses the Havel River. The bridge itself is named after the Glienicke Palace which is located on the east bank of the river. Continue reading Glienicke Bridge, Potsdam →

Germany, Netherlands

Oranienburg – Detour to Lutzs’ Place

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When we last saw Lutz, 5th February, he offered an open-ended invitation to visit with him at his home in Oranienburg near Berlin.

I contacted him to see if he was around this week and if the invitation still stood.

He confirmed that,although he was busy, he was and we decided to make the 600km detour over to his to stay a few days.

09 & 10.07.2018 Route

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