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A view near tonight's campsite.
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Friday August 19, Stendorf …near Bad Kosen
Finally last night we had rain and this morning the
temperatures had dropped, the weather is changing. The joys of being free to
make changes to plans certainly happened today. We set off for an hours drive
to what we thought would be a good base near the Elbe to do some cycling, but
by the time we arrived at the site we had driven through some rather grim
looking towns and didn’t feel comfortable at the camp, especially leaving the
camper to go biking. We used the ablution facilities they had to empty and
fill, and headed off to another spot we had found about an hours drive away. We
stopped for a lunch break before we headed onto the motorway, it was raining,
and felt a bit desolate so after studying the map and sites decided to put a
few miles under our belt and head to a different area. We had been enjoying our
travelling along the Elbe through very flat countryside so found a site in
quite a different area on the Salle River. It meant 100kms on the motorway,
something we prefer not to do, but decided that it would be a lot longer using
alternative routes. Headed off on a six lane autobahn, and ticked off the
kilometres….until we struck road works which had reduced our side to two lanes
and the traffic just crawled. Think it ended up adding half an hour to our
journey.
Once we finally turned off for the last 30 minutes it was so
good and we had arrived in such a different part of the country. There were
rolling tree covered hills and beautiful small villages and a real air of
affluence. We are just on the border between West and the old East Germany and
you can really notice the difference.
Interesting we have just been reading in the book about life in East
Germany in the 70’s and the Russians had confiscated all the farmland off the
people and they were starving. Finally, the government, in desperation, set up huge
areas of allotments for the people that supported the new country, and today we
saw many of these, still being used with very nice gardens, fruit trees and
garden sheds.
We wound our way through some very narrow streets to finally
arrive at a very idyllic camping spot in the country overlooking the Salle
River. It is so peaceful even though there would be 20 campers here tonight, just
the sound of the water.
Apologies as we are very limited with internet, and not able
to check Facebook etc. Keeping blog photos small!!!
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Typical East German streets.
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Busy motorway, traffic crawling on the other side.
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Wonderful old barn beside camp.
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Our view tonight...just idyllic
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