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Published: July 30th 2013
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The weekend passed at Camping Naumberg, the plan to take Woolly to the pool only partly succeeded in that we sat on the grass for half an hour before the rain started so being sensible we retreated to the bar. The campsite was fine, good size pitches and everything you could need including microwaves and cookers in the kitchen areas. For families it was brilliant with loads for the kids to do for us hmmm we like it quieter but for 9 Euros a night (approximately £7.90 GBP) not a bad bargain and we didn’t have to pay extra for the ant population or the use of the pool.
Woolly says – I quite enjoyed the campsite and had a great few hours on my skateboard rolling down the paths. Monday came round and we knew we had a short drive with Ollie limping badly on his rear passenger side brake. Ian was amazing and got us to Korbach where a wonderful German man had told us to go. We were unsure what we would find and thought we might be stuck for a night or two while parts were delivered but no we found ourselves at a
Honda dealer. Three hours they said so we adjourned across the road to McDonalds (GBM) and spent our time messaging family and my bestest friend Sion as well as planning the next few stages of our journey.
The service was excellent and they even emptied the ashtray! Ollie came bouncing out of the service bay and was raring to go. Having lost a day in waiting for the garage to open we gave him his wish and flew down the roads and carriageways of Germany to Jena. We found Camping Platz easily and although the receptionist thought we were mad to pitch in the downpour seventeen minutes later we were all good and dry. For 15 Euros (approximately £13.90 GBP) we are on a small site with good basic facilities, a small bar serving until 7pm and not many people around and the most helpful information on tomorrow’s location not to mention free WIFI, couldn’t get better.
Woolly says – I had a good night’s rest, well except for Ian and Jo snoring, we were packed and off to our first destination of the day a mere two kilometres away. Once parked we walked
the short distance to the Zeiss Planetarium , I kept a look out for planets in a large fish tank until Ian told me that we were going to look at the stars. Even more confused as it was daylight, I thought I would wait and see what was going to happen.
The Zeiss Planetarium is the oldest continuously operating
planetarium in the world being opened on July 18, 1926. It was built using Carl Zeiss’s lenses and provides a range of entertainment including children’s shows, family shows about the Solar System and music shows using the classic music of many groups. Paying over our 8 Euros each (approximately £6.70 GBP) we entered the planetarium and took our seats.
Woolly says – I was so excited and as I sat back in my reclining chair I watched the universe unfold right in front of my eyes. The show was in German but watching was fine and I did pick up on quite a few things, they showed us the star consolations of the solar system including the Great Bear and the Little Bear and Orion and his belt. It then took us into our
Galaxy and explained the Big Bang Theory (and I thought it was just a TV series!) and onto Galileo. Suddenly the lights came back on and I was back in my seat instead of flying with the stars.
It was a very good show although our Galaxy was in the wrong place as were some of the constellations but well worth a visit, we only wished we could have stayed for the Pink Floyd show that would be on later that day.
Woolly say - We even found a Mammoth Fitness centre on our way back to Ollie, not that I need it, I wanted to go and check out the fit Mammoth’s but Jo and Ian dragged me on instead.
A short hop and a stop for some nourishment found us following a windy road to Schloss Burgk.
Woolly says – When I heard Jo and Ian talking about the Schloss I thought they meant an afternoon in a bar so I was most surprized to see a large house set above a beautiful lake and dam. Jo told me that Schloss’s where similar to the French
Chateaux’s so donning my hoodie against the rain we set off down the path to see what we could find.
Schloss Burgk was first constructed in 1365. It provided a defence system for the surrounding town. Major changes were made to the original building in 1600 which remains as it was then to this day. The postcards looked good so we followed our map and found ourselves climbing up some plain wooden stairs.
Woolly says – it’s didn’t look impressive until we turned into the first room and then WOW. It was incredible, with beautiful carvings and decorations, I would love to have a bedroom like this. The painted and carved ceiling gave me neck strain as I feasted my eyes on it before standing open mouthed in front of the window which was even more magnificent. Having had our fill we climbed higher and found a church with amazing decorations around the balcony and the organ, another wow. Other rooms showed off military equipment and heads of dead beasties (no mammoths, thank goodness!), more painted ceilings and suits of armour, what a place. Returning to the stairway we descended and entered the courtyard
to find our way blocked. There was a film crew with rolling cameras and actors everywhere, I started checking for Brad, Bruce or even Michael Caine but none seemed to be there.
We seemed to have picked our visit on the day when a German film was being made about a fairy-tale, once we realised there was no one famous that we could identify and that we couldn’t go into the area we moved to the second part of the Schloss.
Woolly says – this route led us into a very pretty tower, very fairy like but once inside it was pretty boring and plain. We went way down to the cellars and found some cannons and then retraced our steps and continued up to the top to find the rooms that soldiers would once have inhabited. It was good but nowhere near as spectacular as the previous part of the castle. For the 5 Euro each (approximately £4.00 GBP) it was a good place to go just a shame we couldn’t see it all. With the sun back in the sky we stopped for a quick drink to wet the whistle before our
short journey to tonight’s camp at Stadtsteinach. It looks like a nice peaceful site with not to many campers and for 21 Euros (approximately £17.80 GBP) it’s clean with large pitches and good facilities.
With Woolly puffing round the site you can only wonder where we are off to tomorrow!
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D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley
We were in Bavaria in the fall
That part of the world is rich in history.