Guten Tag Germany

After Prague we travelled north to Hradek nad Nisou, where we biked from the camp along the river to the tri-border of Germany, Poland and Czech Republic.  As the actual border was in the middle of the river, there was a marker the same distance from the border in each of the countries.  The cycleway was great and we ended up continuing on into Germany and Poland for a bit.

We were the only non Czech at the camp and near the camp was something that I never wanted to see in my life (and since then I’ve seen 3) a nuclear power plant.  Needless to say we didn’t drink any water or swim in the lake and we didn’t see any locals with 3 arms or anything.

The next day we travelled to Germany to a wee place called Jena.   We chose this place because of our daughter’s name, Jenna.  It was a university town and again a great cycle track along a river into town, where we looked about before having dinner and wobbling back to camp on our bikes.

It was again a lovely camp with mainly Dutch holidaymakers.  The lady who ran the café/bar had just imported a beautiful Airstream caravan from USA.  I wanted it!

Then we were off to Rothenburg ob der Tauber a quaint walled town near the start of the Romanic Road.  Again we biked into the town (6km) which was up hill all the way (going home with our night’s supplies was nice though) and we strolled the village.  Their speciality was Schneeballe’s which were shortbread like dough rolled into lengths, smothered in whatever the option was then rolled into a ball about the size of a softball.  We got two for supper one traditional one which had sugar on it and one it nougat.

Today we took the romantic strasse (road) and ended up in a wee place called Lechbruck Am See, 

which is on the side of a manmade lake.  The road was very scenic and we loved not being on the Germany motorways. 

As the weather is now cooler we are back to cooking, tonight I’m trying to cook a German meal of Schnitzel, Sauerkraut and potatoes – not much colour to tonight’s dinner plate.