For a change an earlier
start for no particular reason to a bright and breezy day after quite
heavy rain overnight. We're only 45km from the border so reasoning
that things are cheaper in Germany we delayed our shopping stop until
we found a Lidl. A bit necessary as we discovered the bottled water
we'd bought was fizzy and the milk, err, wasn't milk – but it goes
okay on cereal; have to get the dictionary out but we think it's
soya.
Shortly after we topped
up with fuel and also bought a German map, another of those items
that got forgotten – remember our early posts? Then continue, first
of all on straight and fast ordinary roads and after lunch onto the
autobahn to Hamburg. No speed limit on this one which meant we were
constantly being passed by cars doing well over 100 mph and not all
of them modern high power types; an original Mini-Cooper was doing
his best too! My Mum used to have one of those!
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| Roundabout Art |
Unfortunately the
weather deterorated until we were going from heavy shower, through
sunshine to more rain. Hamburg was very wet but turning westbound
towards Bremen, and incidentally rejoining our outbound route, we
could see blue ahead of us so started planning our stop. Bren espied
a likely looking place at Sittensen so navigated us to, basically, a
car park on the edge of the town next to a watermill and museum.
Joining several other vans already parked up, we noticed there were
basic water ad waste facilities as well as excellent public loos
close by and a lovely park across the road; a nice place to stop. And
free!
A walk after a cuppa
showed once again the town didn't have a lot going for it, but the
exercise did us good and we returned for tea, now having been joined
by several more motorhomes of varying nationality – the place is
getting quite full. But the weather is still very changeable and we
had further rain showers to come.
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| Parking at Sittensen |
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