29 September 2010

A bit of a drive (Part 3)


A view from my daily Oława to Skarbimeirz Commute



Leaving Oława and heading for home - 1600km to go


Carnage on the Polish roads (as usual) - 20km queue


Lower Silesia 


On the Breslau - Berlin Autbahn (leaving Poland the carriageway has been upgraded - coming back it is 100km of concrete blocks floating on drained bogland - after so many years these are no long level and it goes "bump-bump-bump-BUMP-bump" for about an hour).  On the (unlimited) German section my little Volvo maxed out at 205km/hr but at more sensible speeds I was getting 60mpg.
Hotel Am Seegraben on the "Cottbus City Limits"


Brandenburg


Heading for Hamburg - the whole of the north German  autobahn network seemed to be in the process of being upgraded - construction excellently signed and marked but slow progress at 50km/hr for half of the way home


The VAN DER VALK Hotel Hamburg-Wittenburg - located next to a massive indoor ski centre.  The hotel is certainly NOT the destination and it shows - but clean, efficient and good price.

Heading west at last - after a very wet radio-orienteering.


Someone spat in my Westphalian Potato Soup! (not really but it looks like it - the froth is a sort of 'garnish')


German "black" beer - a sort of porter


Healthy eats


The Parkhotel Schloss Hohenfeld in Munster - with the BierStube on left


 One of my many road-works detours off the autobahn - Dingbangerweg!


Somewhere in the Netherlands - it looks like a tornado had touched down and flattened the forest



All roads seem to go through Antwerp - and then the Kennedy Tunnel - certainly a fixture on my continental road trips.  Antwerp seems to be dominated by a) heavy traffic and b) lines of parked cars


Welcome to France


Nearly home


Quick - even the French have their own burger chain now - but why does the little "burger-boy" make me feel so sad?  There is something pathetic about this character but I am not sure what.

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