Safe Return Doubtful

..a few to add to the collection.

Day 5..

Though the first conundrum of the day was fitting the hundred Belgian beers into the van in such places were they would sit snuggly. It may seem a lot, but they are, in theory at least, to last 4 months.

I’ve driven across Netherlands and northern Germany a few times, and never really enjoyed it. The roads are as busy as the British motorways, and similarly crammed with roadworks. From Hoogstarten to Denmark is an eight hour drive of about 700 kilometres, and my plan was to do it in two days, with a stop over at a Nature Park, in the Oldenburg district of Lower Saxony.

After the beer puzzle I found a forest at Wortel-Kolonie, ideal for a couple of hours out with Roja. It was midday before we began the four hour journey, arriving in good time to get out into the forest again. The weather is similar to southeastern England at the moment, below average temperatures, at about 6C, and a smattering of heavy showers, though after dark, the rain set in for most of the night.

This morning I wandered further afield, and investigated the area a bit more. There are several ideal places here for a campervan to stopover. A highlight of the forest of the Wildeshauser Geest, is Lower Saxony’s second biggest megalithic burial mound, the Visbeker Braut, or the Visbek Bride, (the picture below) erected between 3500 and 2800 BC.

As yesterday, we drove the four hours later in the morning, arriving into the south of Denmark about 5 pm.

I’m at a place I haven’t been to before, the forest and lakes of the village of Jels, which will no doubt be very busy once the weather warms up a bit, but at the moment are virtually empty.