Beautiful Bremen and the RTTS

Our friend, Ludwig, who lives in Bremen came to our camp on the Wednesday night and picked us up to go into the city to the riverside where numerous cafes and bars were.  We had a great catch up and coffee with his friend Jens at his café/bar before getting back to camp at midnight.

After a great sleep in, we biked into the city through a long park, it was beautiful.  Bremen reminds us of pre-quake Christchurch without the hills.  We parked up our bikes and walked through the centre square, then to view the Schnoor area, before checking out the Town Musicans.

We then walked to the Fiddle area to Jens bar for a drink and ended up meeting up with both Ludwig and Jens again.  Then to Bottcherstr. for a look at the buildings.

We loved Bremen and arrived back to camp at 7pm from our outing.

Friday seen us up early sorting Mildred out ready for a 10am departure to the Run to the Sun, VW event.  We cruised down the autobahn and seen lots of other dubs travelling the same direction.

The event was a very casual affair and very relaxed.  It was fantastic to see all the lovely vehicles parked up and we meet some extremely nice people.  We were treated like Kings.

Late in the afternoon we had the privilege of being interviewed by German Television.  Neither of us were very good at handling that!  But Peter, the cameraman was very nice and patient, shame he forgot to bring the makeup crew with him.

On Saturday evening there was a sunset cruise along the dijk and through the town before heading back to camp for the prizegiving and music.  We won the Furthest Travelled award, a little hard for anyone to beat us in that category with half a world plus 16,000km in Europe under our belts.

Today (Sunday) we were back at camp by midday we parked up and almost straight away headed to the lake beside the camp, as we discovered on Wednesday it was a clothing optional lake, so we again took advantage of that, plus the temperatures must have been in the high 30’s.  We love this lake and you can wander up and buy food or drinks from the lakeside stall in the buff.  This is our first trip to a bar naked, so another new experience to chalk up.

Tomorrow we head towards Belgium, however tonight we had a very lovely outing visiting Luwig and Larrisa's home and having Vietnamese for dinner with them on their rooftop terrace.