Trip report : Norway in the truck camper
Well, we had done a lot of stuff in our own country in our truck camper the past couple of years, and a lot of foreign travel in rented campers, so time to get our little camper on a ferry and oversea...
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Sunday - South through Denmark and Germany
Yesterday also nearly ended differently. That nice Danish pastry I ate came with a nice loaf of bread I bought, which came in a paper bag. Sally left the paper bag too close to the propane stove and set fire to it, so I had to jump down an beat the fire out. There was a slight smell of burning beard and I found some of my hair had gone crunchy. :S
Also, the fridge ran out of electricity overnight again :M . Oh well, it would get plenty of electricity from the alternator today.
Anyway, we survived both, so we left early to get some miles under our belt, heading south through the peninsula of Denmark.
Sally dozed in the passenger seat while we ate up the miles on the flat Danish divided highways. Cruise control would have been nice.
As we approached the German border we stopped at a location I had found - it was not well marked, just a fairly anonymous sign off a side road:
A 2nd World War prison camp.
Though as war-time prison camps go, this must have been one of the better ones:
We carry on into Germany - interestingly there were vehicle checks being carried out on vehicles entering Denmark from Germany.
Its time for lunch so we pull off the highway and find a lake to stop by:
A German woman and her mother came over and wanted to know about the camper - I showed them inside and they were very grateful. They welcomed us to their country and then headed off to do some geocaching.
Heading south west now we stopped at another location I was keen to see. You can book tours around this, which I would love, but we didn't really have time.
This is where today's giant cruise liners are born:
The above is a section of one of these:
And this is the factory where they are built:
This isn't even near the sea. But the ships are dispatched down a river to the inland sea in Holland, and then out through the barrier islands to the North Sea.
It was evening, so we found a campground at the other end of the shipbuilding town of Papenberg.
Stay tuned for Holland...
Yesterday also nearly ended differently. That nice Danish pastry I ate came with a nice loaf of bread I bought, which came in a paper bag. Sally left the paper bag too close to the propane stove and set fire to it, so I had to jump down an beat the fire out. There was a slight smell of burning beard and I found some of my hair had gone crunchy. :S
Also, the fridge ran out of electricity overnight again :M . Oh well, it would get plenty of electricity from the alternator today.
Anyway, we survived both, so we left early to get some miles under our belt, heading south through the peninsula of Denmark.
Sally dozed in the passenger seat while we ate up the miles on the flat Danish divided highways. Cruise control would have been nice.
As we approached the German border we stopped at a location I had found - it was not well marked, just a fairly anonymous sign off a side road:
A 2nd World War prison camp.
Though as war-time prison camps go, this must have been one of the better ones:
We carry on into Germany - interestingly there were vehicle checks being carried out on vehicles entering Denmark from Germany.
Its time for lunch so we pull off the highway and find a lake to stop by:
A German woman and her mother came over and wanted to know about the camper - I showed them inside and they were very grateful. They welcomed us to their country and then headed off to do some geocaching.
Heading south west now we stopped at another location I was keen to see. You can book tours around this, which I would love, but we didn't really have time.
This is where today's giant cruise liners are born:
The above is a section of one of these:
And this is the factory where they are built:
This isn't even near the sea. But the ships are dispatched down a river to the inland sea in Holland, and then out through the barrier islands to the North Sea.
It was evening, so we found a campground at the other end of the shipbuilding town of Papenberg.
Stay tuned for Holland...
