Where's Bertie? He's in a Stellplatz in the town of Bad Gandersheim at a cost of €7 per 24hrs. Electricity and water are available for a small extra fee (today's oddity: the eight electric points on one side of the Stellplatz cost €1 per 12 hours; on the other side they cost 50c per kW/h.). Exact location: 51.87187, 10.021.
Weather: Mainly sunny and warm (mid-twenties) after a cool start.
A walk into Scharfoldendorf started our day, where Mick didn't really recognise anything, although his recollection as to the line of the road up to the army camp did lead us up a dead-end that was clearly the old road.
Could this have been Mutti's back in the 1960s? Maybe.
Otherwise, it's a tiny village (more of a suburb of the neighbouring village really), with more than its fair share of abandoned buildings falling into disrepair.
Another one. There's probably just not a market for such massive semi-agricultural buildings these days.
Taking a different, lumpier, route back to Bertie...
The benefit of gaining a bit of elevation was the view up to the Ith ridge, where Mick used to live
... coffee and toast were had, and I put to Mick the two options of where we could go today: a free Stellplatz in Lamspringe with excellent reviews, but accessed via 33km of slow, small, winding roads; or this Stellplatz about the same distance away, with slightly less-good reviews, but accessed via good roads. The final decision was made when I counted the bag of coins and found that we did have enough to fund the fee here.
Via a fuel station (204c/litre) and Lidl, we got here to find that the ticket machine accepts cards ... except it wouldn't accept ours. A lot of attempts and Google translating of the messages on the screen happened before we gave up and used cash.
If we were going to just to sit and watch TV all day, then the sensible thing would have been to stay in Eschershausen another night, but once we were here we got sucked into watching the cricket (still the Hundred) and couldn't tear ourselves away*.
With two women's matches on today (the women's being aired for free on Sky Cricket's YouTube channel), we took the opportunity in the gap between them to go and have a look at the town.
What a lovely town! A couple of days ago in Hameln, we were wondering if we'd had our fill of German half-timbered towns, as it just wasn't that interesting and felt a bit 'samey'. Then today we rounded a bend to this view...
...which was just the start of the prettiness.
Weather: Mainly sunny and warm (mid-twenties) after a cool start.
A walk into Scharfoldendorf started our day, where Mick didn't really recognise anything, although his recollection as to the line of the road up to the army camp did lead us up a dead-end that was clearly the old road.
Otherwise, it's a tiny village (more of a suburb of the neighbouring village really), with more than its fair share of abandoned buildings falling into disrepair.
Taking a different, lumpier, route back to Bertie...
... coffee and toast were had, and I put to Mick the two options of where we could go today: a free Stellplatz in Lamspringe with excellent reviews, but accessed via 33km of slow, small, winding roads; or this Stellplatz about the same distance away, with slightly less-good reviews, but accessed via good roads. The final decision was made when I counted the bag of coins and found that we did have enough to fund the fee here.
Via a fuel station (204c/litre) and Lidl, we got here to find that the ticket machine accepts cards ... except it wouldn't accept ours. A lot of attempts and Google translating of the messages on the screen happened before we gave up and used cash.
If we were going to just to sit and watch TV all day, then the sensible thing would have been to stay in Eschershausen another night, but once we were here we got sucked into watching the cricket (still the Hundred) and couldn't tear ourselves away*.
With two women's matches on today (the women's being aired for free on Sky Cricket's YouTube channel), we took the opportunity in the gap between them to go and have a look at the town.
What a lovely town! A couple of days ago in Hameln, we were wondering if we'd had our fill of German half-timbered towns, as it just wasn't that interesting and felt a bit 'samey'. Then today we rounded a bend to this view...
Ex-convent
I must have been enjoying the surroundings too much, as I now realise I failed to take any snaps of the most striking building, which these days houses the museum. We would have gone in, even though it would undoubtedly all have been in German, just for the view from the Watch Tower, had it not been for the requirement to wear a mask (the third museum visit we've not made for that reason).
The Tourist Office did have some English literature, so we followed a self-guided town tour, that was mildly informative, and led us right back to Bertie, although we walked on by for another lap of the town.
I'm not sure whether it's half day closing, but very few places were open. It took us some while to find somewhere to buy what is becoming our daily ice cream.
Our escapades caused us to miss the first innings of the second match of the day, but, as I said, it would have been a waste to come here just to watch cricket on TV (actually, on an 8" tablet, as Bertie doesn't have a smart TV)! The Hundred finishes this weekend, so we'll be less enthralled by the screen thereafter.
I must have been enjoying the surroundings too much, as I now realise I failed to take any snaps of the most striking building, which these days houses the museum. We would have gone in, even though it would undoubtedly all have been in German, just for the view from the Watch Tower, had it not been for the requirement to wear a mask (the third museum visit we've not made for that reason).
The Tourist Office did have some English literature, so we followed a self-guided town tour, that was mildly informative, and led us right back to Bertie, although we walked on by for another lap of the town.
I'm not sure whether it's half day closing, but very few places were open. It took us some while to find somewhere to buy what is becoming our daily ice cream.
Our escapades caused us to miss the first innings of the second match of the day, but, as I said, it would have been a waste to come here just to watch cricket on TV (actually, on an 8" tablet, as Bertie doesn't have a smart TV)! The Hundred finishes this weekend, so we'll be less enthralled by the screen thereafter.
(*Northern Superchargers v Southern Brave. Northern Superchargers needed to win with a 46 run margin to make it to the eliminator. Southern Brave needed to win to guarantee their place in the final. For quite a long while either outcome looked possible, but in the end neither achieved their objective.)
The one day matches are good to watch but I still prefer the subtleties and duration of the Test Matches including of course so much history, nostalgia, endless statistical records and the like.
ReplyDeleteThe most attention I would give a Test Match would be to watch Today at the Test, but even that has become a rarity for me. These days I just have a passing interest in the score, and I would certainly not sit and watch an entire multi-day match (I was going to say it's too big an investment of time, but then I remembered that I watched pretty much every match of the Snooker World Championships this year...). The Hundred thus suits me nicely, being such a compact format, with the entire competition taking place over a short period.
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