Where's Bertie? He's in the Stellplatz right next to the BürgerPark in Braunschweig, where it costs €5*. Electricity and water are available for a small extra charge (in fact, so small in the case of electricity that we've bought some:
€1 for 24hr, max 3kW/h). Exact location: 52.24975, 10.51952
Weather: Sunny for much of the day, and getting nicely warm (24 degrees) after a cool start.
Morning run. Planned route around a lake was scuppered by path closures, so an out-and-back along a disused railway line cycle route it was.
My plan for today was to drive to the east side of Braunschweig, visit the last of our "Does Mick recognise this place?" points of interest, check out the location of Saturday's parkrun, then come to the Stellplatz. Mick's thoughts were to come straight to the Stellplatz and defer the other two activities until Saturday - a more efficient routing - so that's what we did.
Over lunch, I checked out the local Tourist Info website, downloaded a couple of brochures and the town App, such that when we headed out to look around this afternoon, we had a self-guided tour to follow.
The park next to the Stellplatz is sizeable and most pleasant, and it provided us with a nice off-road route into town. Once there, it was a bit of a juggle to switch between the App (which featured a map showing where we were in relation to the points of interest - a veritable plus point when there are no waymarks), the English brochure (because the App was all in German), Google Translate (because only 7 of the 12 PoIs were included in the English brochure), and my camera. A lot of phone battery was consumed, but we were successful in seeing a good chunk of the city, with its old and new buildings (some of the former really being the latter, having being rebuilt post-war), together with a side-trip to Decathlon (we bought nothing - must be a first!).
That's the Old Rathaus in the far corner of the square, centre of shot. Impressive façade, as is so often the case in Germany
The church that's just visible in the left of the Rathaus shot. The tour took us to more churches than we needed to see.
Wibbly old buildings in 'the poor district' (dating from the 1300s), juxtaposed with modern apartments.
Cathedral on the right, Schloss on the left, and tower of the new Rathaus (another impressive building) visible beyond.
Looking across the cathedral square
Something of a departure from the rest of the architecture of the city!
A small snack on the way back to Bertie ...except it was either a late second lunch or a really early tea and left us both stuffed (€9 for the two plates of food)
Sculpture of the Day contenders. They like to stick their sculptures on high points. The last one wins.
(*the ticket runs from 11am to 11am. We don't know whether, if we buy a new ticket at 9am tomorrow it will run for 2 hours or for 26 hours, so to be on the safe side we're going to have to make sure we're here at 11am. This could be inconvenient, and it beats me as to why they can't do the same as other motorhome parkings all over Europe with your departure time being 24 hours from arrival.)
€1 for 24hr, max 3kW/h). Exact location: 52.24975, 10.51952
Weather: Sunny for much of the day, and getting nicely warm (24 degrees) after a cool start.
My plan for today was to drive to the east side of Braunschweig, visit the last of our "Does Mick recognise this place?" points of interest, check out the location of Saturday's parkrun, then come to the Stellplatz. Mick's thoughts were to come straight to the Stellplatz and defer the other two activities until Saturday - a more efficient routing - so that's what we did.
Over lunch, I checked out the local Tourist Info website, downloaded a couple of brochures and the town App, such that when we headed out to look around this afternoon, we had a self-guided tour to follow.
The park next to the Stellplatz is sizeable and most pleasant, and it provided us with a nice off-road route into town. Once there, it was a bit of a juggle to switch between the App (which featured a map showing where we were in relation to the points of interest - a veritable plus point when there are no waymarks), the English brochure (because the App was all in German), Google Translate (because only 7 of the 12 PoIs were included in the English brochure), and my camera. A lot of phone battery was consumed, but we were successful in seeing a good chunk of the city, with its old and new buildings (some of the former really being the latter, having being rebuilt post-war), together with a side-trip to Decathlon (we bought nothing - must be a first!).
(*the ticket runs from 11am to 11am. We don't know whether, if we buy a new ticket at 9am tomorrow it will run for 2 hours or for 26 hours, so to be on the safe side we're going to have to make sure we're here at 11am. This could be inconvenient, and it beats me as to why they can't do the same as other motorhome parkings all over Europe with your departure time being 24 hours from arrival.)
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