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Greetings from E Germany/Poland
Well it will be in about 28 hours, just got to get there first. Should be an easy trip as Sunday in Germany, no trucks.
Got a few old faves planned and some new stuff, will bung up the odd pic as I go along.
View at the mo.
Diet could get busted with croissants & PoCs over there.
30th Sep 2018 6:25 am
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Wish you a safe trip DSL...looking forward to the pics...
30th Sep 2018 6:39 am
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There’s a strange dude in the van behind me waiting to board, he’s taking pics of his van. I thought it was most odd, then realised that’s what I do!
Not getting out the car, it’s only +3c and a bit nippy.
30th Sep 2018 6:45 am
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30th Sep 2018 6:53 am
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Will do.
Just got to remember they drive on the wrong side of the road over there.
Now rolling, bye Ingerland til a week Tuesday.
30th Sep 2018 7:14 am
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I saw you yesterday going north bound on the A3
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30th Sep 2018 8:26 am
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Woooohoooo, first spot of the trip.
And first brew stop, Ration Farm Cemetery just before Lille. Great place for coffee & croissants. D5 owners eat yer heart out!!
Have a good trip Del, stay safe fella Have you remembered the coffee ? The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the best of everything they have.
30th Sep 2018 1:58 pm
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Nicely tucked up in Best Western N of Braunschweig, they’ve even found some spare wheels to make me feel at home!!
No scoff tonight at hotel and CBAed heading out so Sticky Rib PN for quick & easy dinner.
Not sure this is what the designer of the cup holders had in mind when he screwed up the perfectly good D3 design.
30th Sep 2018 5:46 pm
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OK, been looking at a trip tomorrow and was hopefully going to skirt the Environmental Zone as never bothered getting a sticker. I’ve tried to find out where the S boundary of the zone is with no joy, it seems to follow the S Bahn line. So anyone out there that knows these things, can I do this route without a sticker?
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TIA.
30th Sep 2018 6:31 pm
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Bit of a grey day today, mostly in the car. Bit slow getting to first stop, mainly coz of a Neeeeeesan Micra that managed to park itself in the middle lane of the A2, on its roof. I thought the delays were for at least one of the two Audis that went past at about Mach 3, but it wasn’t. Don’t get me started on Autobahns, sheer lunacy!
My first stop was the Luftwaffe museum at Gatow. Well it wasn’t a very long stop as it’s closed on Mondays. SWMBO asked me if I’d checked it was open, of course I hadn’t or I wouldn’t be sat looking at a closed gate to the car park. This is the nearest I got to all that Cold War flying metal.
Hooked up round to Berlin to get S again. First unwritten rule of Road Trip is never do the same routes backwards, that smacks of being lost. Second rule of Road Trip, never admit to being lost. Third rule of Road Trip, when asked if lost, always say you’ve not decided where to go yet, that worked a treat with a couple of very curious Finnish Politi in the Arras end of no-where earlier in the year.
But we digress. Stopped in at the big CWGC Berlin cometary on the route, lots of RAF, RCAF, RAAF & RNZAF bomber crews rest there along with hundreds of soldiers that died in POW camps.
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Found a home for the little Poppy cross that was in the post. I spent ages wondering where I was going to plant it, knowing when I saw the marker I’d know. And I did.
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Then off to Zossen, a former Nazi sniper school base and Soviet Army tank training area (remember their doctrin: visit the USSR before the USSR visits you), now lots of pricy apartments and accommodation for those newly arrived from troubled parts. Some of it very secure looking when I headed down a road that I might not have been strictly allowed to be on, that’ll be for the naughty new arrivals.
Want to find the elusive Vinkelturn, and found 2, one on its side and one as it was, ISTR they were air raid shelters and the cone was to deflect the blast. Zossen also housed a major communications centre so they were a bit paranoid about it being bombed, though that didn’t happen til very near the end of the war as the allies didn’t know it was there.
This is what LR satnav showed on the approach to Poland. Nothing the other side of the Oder, there be dragons. Might have been useful in 1939, had the invaders been equipped with LR SatNag.
Hotel is a bit basic, bit like a prison cell with an AC unit and TV. But it’s not that much more than camping, and restaurant looks pretty good, will see what it’s like for food at breakie. So glad I’m not in the campsite in Zechin where I used to stay, cold Oztent with triple sleeping bags. I’m far too old, or wise, for that malarkie now.
Mind you, I wonder what these birdies are trying to tell me, maybe I should have headed South to the Sud de France?
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1st Oct 2018 5:58 pm
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Aerialmark wrote:
Have a good trip Del, stay safe fella Have you remembered the coffee ?
Of course I’ve remembered the coffee. The car runs on diesel, I run on coffee, pref freshly brewed. I know this might sound a bit sad but I’ve got a fresh pack to open tomorrow and I’m really looking forward to it. And the car will smell of fresh coffee for a good few days, even if i don’t spill any putting it in the tin.
1st Oct 2018 6:30 pm
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That's a really gesture putting the poppy cross on an unknown soldiers grave!
Always enjoy your tours of these sites and museums.Stu
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1st Oct 2018 9:35 pm
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Just been watching Battle for Moscow on NOWTV (a Russian film made with the special effects by Scandinavians with Russian sound, so subtitles, in a Polish hotel) to get me in the mood for tromping around the battlefields of the Seelow Heights tomorrow. Boots & bug juice on for a morning on the Reitwein Spur, will try not to miss Zhukov’s Bunker again.
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