Today we got in the van and drove to a little village called Sarau.
On the way we stopped at an Autobahn reststop. These places are pretty cool, a higher quality service station with food etc. We chilled out there for a while an Haidee and Piggy got a massage.
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| Chillin' |
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| Ya, Goot! |
This is the village that Pastors Heine and Wohlers traveled through and decided that Upper Moutere was a similar place so named it Sarau.
We went into the church there. Similar to Upper Moutere there are Linden trees, a graveyard, a pub, a community center and a school across the road.
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| The Church in Sarau |
The weather changed today and a cold wind was coming down off the Baltic Sea. We sat down and had a coffee with one of the Sarau church elders and then we had a locally brewed schnapps.
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| Piggy felt the cold (GO LIONS!) |
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| Schnapps! |
We then traveled on to Lubeck. We went shopping and got some marzipan for Brigitte. We had a big piece of cake each from the marzipan cafe. The cake cost 1€ more per piece if we wanted to eat it in the cafe rather than take it away. So of course, being cheap, we took it away.
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| Comfy and Yummy! |
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| Piggy! |
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| The remaining gate of the previously fortified city |
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| I licked it for you Spol! |
We got back in the van and drove some more, passing into what used to be East Germany. You can see how bland some of the units built during that period were. Barry was able to tell us a lot about life in East Germany. We're staying 3 nights now just outside a place called Gravesmühlen.
We had a home cooked meal last night and met some of Barry's friends from the local historical society. The two ladies in the front of the picture toured around New Zealand at the start of the year and we're disappointed they didn't visit Upper Moutere.
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| A nice home cooked meal! |
The beds here are very firm but the pillows very soft, and we finally get soft toilet paper.
Loved the spires of Lubeck though I think there are way fewer than there once were.
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