Camping Lüneburger Heide was such a nice place that we will gladly go back. They even had bikes for rent, at very modest prices. Perfect to explore Lüneburger Heide. We thought we would see some of the Heide (the moor), but all we saw were villages (nice) and fields.
Jens had found (the Internet is a veritable gold mine) a 'ship elevator' that sounded interesting. The Canal has very big height differences, so one lock simply wouldn't be enough - you would need several big locks. Instead some bright engineer invented the ship elevator! The ship enters a kind of 'bath tub', the 'doors' are closed, and then the tub is raised/lowered 38 meters. Pretty amazing. If you feel like watching the whole thing, check out my movies! (I've just realised the movies won't play. Have no idea what's wrong, and my IT-specialist Jens is currently hiking in Norway. Will look into it when he gets back!)
The 'lift' from the outside
Waiting for it to come down
The tub is all the way down, and the boats are exiting
And another ship entering the 'tub' on its way up. So cool! And this is a big ship, one of those super long cargo ships that travel rivers and canals in Germany
Thursday, July 25
We wanted to see the German border town of Flensburg for the first time in 20 some years. But the Stellplatz in Flensburg turned out to be too far from downtown Flensburg, and really did not look inviting at all. So instead we went to Citti Park. A big mall with a very good supermarket at low, German prices. And free Stellplatz, free use of the restrooms in the mall during opening hours, we could empty our RV and also get fresh water. Certainly not a romantic spot - think 'big parking lot' ' but hey, I can live with that every once in a while. Too far from downtown Flensburg - but next time maybe we won't have a dog so we can bring our bikes. Dinner and breakfast in the mall = no dishes. Life certainly is good! Now we now why people rave about Citti markt. Next time we won't load up on groceries at home, we'll do that in Germany instead.
Friday, July 26
More or less just driving through Denmark, up to Hyssna where we looked at RV:s at Forsbergs. Found a really nice one, slightly bigger than ours, but those extra centimeters extra would really mean a world of a difference. Plus we would get a much better pay load - but we would have had to pay twice as much as we do now, so not interesting after all. Guess we got a really good deal on our RV!
Found a really nice spot, almost for free.
Too windy, so we had dinner inside, but with the big door open so we could enjoy the beautiful view.
Saturday, July 27
Came home, fearing we would meet the same sorry sight as last year, when our lawn was just about dead. But it hadn't been nearly as hot in Sweden this month of July, and Viktor had done a great job house sitting, so everything looked OK. Slightly over grown though! (think: jungle) soi I have my job cut out for me!
