Blogs from Lolland, Region Sjælland, Denmark, Europe

Friday 10th September 2010 Up early and a short drive to the small port of Gedser to catch the ferry from Denmark to Germany ( Rostock ). This trip is about the same as the channel crossing and costs about £100 one way. The ferries are on a very quick turn round - 20 minutes from arrival to departure - unloading and reloading, very impressive and well organised. Lunch on board is good and reasonably priced setting us up for the journey to Berlin that follows. The journey to our camp site near Berlin was fairly smooth until we got close to the Berliner Ring which is the equivalent of London's M25. It appears that stretches of this feeder road have experienced high levels of accidents ( probably because numerous individuals driving powerful, usually german built ... read more

Slightly better sleep but only because I resorted to earplugs to shut out the traffic noise. Incredibly when we got back to Tandy last night someone had parked so close that we couldn’t open our main window (and it was stiflingly hot) as it would have meant they couldn’t close their door. We headed out of Copenhagen on the motorway but then directed Clarissa Tomtom not to use motorways and she took us along some more minor, ‘straight as the crow flies’ roads right to the south of Julland to a little place called Hummingham. There is a campsite here and probably a beach a mile or so away but we stayed on site so didn’t find out what else was there. Had a swim in the rather nice pool but, as luck would have it, ... read more