Grossenboden beach and bathing boxes - don´t think the ad is for ice cream
Dogs do it too
Gossenboden -sanitary heaven, ja!
Home away from home
Far from the madding crowdI had intended leaving Lubeck early but it was raining so I took the opportunity to have a quick look at the City Museum, which contains some good 19th century German landscape work plus a lot of fine funiture coming from the homes of the rich merchants of the 17th to 19th century. Certainly beat riding in the rain.
Also bought some of the famous Lubecker marzipan (as endorsed by Bill Hansen) for my impending Danish hosts. I was reassured that the shop I found was the best marzipan store in Lubeck as the sales people were a bit on the snooty side al la Prue and Trude.
Leaving Lubeck about noon, I made the usual slow progress getting out of town. However, both the weather and pace picked up as I rode north across the very pretty rural rolling countryside of Holstein (Schleswig-Holstein). I was aided by very good bike path surfaces (indistinguishable from carpet in places) and a strong tail wind. I ended up doing 80 km in spite of the late start and pitched a tent in a "mega" campsite at Grossenbrode on the Baltic coast at the northern tip of mainland Germany. Only a small island and a ferry remained before Denmark.
The campsite and there are many others (I counted 42 on my map in just the area west of Keil and north of Lubeck) along this Baltic Coastline are mainly for what appears to be permanent or semi-permanent caravans and their "add ons". These add-ons include enclosed extensions, sheds, garden gnomes, flower beds and lawned or paved well equipped and provisioned (barbeques, etc) terraces.
At my campsite there are 520 such sites. Next to the amenities block there is a small patch of lawn for tents. That is okay because mine was the only tent that night and I was right next to the most important feature of the camping ground, the amenities block! This, by the way, was amazingly clean and modern in a packaged sort of way. It even had a dog wash facility.
I arrived on the first day of the German school holidays. The manager told me that he hoped the rather quiet camping ground would soon be abuzz as the people from the big Ruhr cities of Dusselldorf, Dortmund, etc, slowly made their way north to these "homes away from home".
Personally, I would rather be back in Dortmund with a good book than with all this intensity but, what would I know, as I don´t come from Dortmund. I wonder what Prue and who would think.
The intensity extends to a string of restaurants and bathing boxes along the nearby beach. I had a very nice fish meal with two good german beers in quiet and pleasant surroundings. Hopefully, for the campsite manager, this quietness will be vanquished within a day or so.
The Baltic Sea looked wonderfully clear and the sand very fine and white. I would imagine this area would not have much surf as the prevailing winds are westerly to this east facing coastline.
Oh, the sun did finally appear by the late afternoon.
Also bought some of the famous Lubecker marzipan (as endorsed by Bill Hansen) for my impending Danish hosts. I was reassured that the shop I found was the best marzipan store in Lubeck as the sales people were a bit on the snooty side al la Prue and Trude.
Leaving Lubeck about noon, I made the usual slow progress getting out of town. However, both the weather and pace picked up as I rode north across the very pretty rural rolling countryside of Holstein (Schleswig-Holstein). I was aided by very good bike path surfaces (indistinguishable from carpet in places) and a strong tail wind. I ended up doing 80 km in spite of the late start and pitched a tent in a "mega" campsite at Grossenbrode on the Baltic coast at the northern tip of mainland Germany. Only a small island and a ferry remained before Denmark.
The campsite and there are many others (I counted 42 on my map in just the area west of Keil and north of Lubeck) along this Baltic Coastline are mainly for what appears to be permanent or semi-permanent caravans and their "add ons". These add-ons include enclosed extensions, sheds, garden gnomes, flower beds and lawned or paved well equipped and provisioned (barbeques, etc) terraces.
At my campsite there are 520 such sites. Next to the amenities block there is a small patch of lawn for tents. That is okay because mine was the only tent that night and I was right next to the most important feature of the camping ground, the amenities block! This, by the way, was amazingly clean and modern in a packaged sort of way. It even had a dog wash facility.
I arrived on the first day of the German school holidays. The manager told me that he hoped the rather quiet camping ground would soon be abuzz as the people from the big Ruhr cities of Dusselldorf, Dortmund, etc, slowly made their way north to these "homes away from home".
Personally, I would rather be back in Dortmund with a good book than with all this intensity but, what would I know, as I don´t come from Dortmund. I wonder what Prue and who would think.
The intensity extends to a string of restaurants and bathing boxes along the nearby beach. I had a very nice fish meal with two good german beers in quiet and pleasant surroundings. Hopefully, for the campsite manager, this quietness will be vanquished within a day or so.
The Baltic Sea looked wonderfully clear and the sand very fine and white. I would imagine this area would not have much surf as the prevailing winds are westerly to this east facing coastline.
Oh, the sun did finally appear by the late afternoon.
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Prue and Trude. How due yue due?
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