Hello Deutschland!

Woke this morning in Poland and going to sleep in Germany! But that is about the excitement for the day.

Back in the land of serious recycling. Before shopping just insert your returnable bottles into the machine and it will deliver a cash voucher. 

Our purpose today was two fold - charge our German SIM card in Prenzlau and to exchange our new switch for our back step in Neubrandenburg. The first we achieved but the second indicated to us that Hymer has a way to go in the area of  customer service!!!! 

The rural countryside of eastern Gernany was in full harvest mode. What was interesting was the German commitment to renewable energy. This we had noticed in other parts of Germany as well. We could not help but notice just the huge investment in both wind and solar energy sources. With nuclear power stations being decommissioned throughout the country the big push into solar and wind energy is obvious. A shame about Oz's less-than-serious renewable energy policy!

Huge averages for new solar farms. Pic 1 is a stack of solar panels to be placed in the frames. Other pics are of the installation. Note the wind turbines in the background!

Wind farms throughout the agricultural landscape of eastern Germany. 

We visited Prenzlau, wandered around for a while, checked out the promenade along the lake with many other holiday makers. But with the approaching storm we decided to cut our visit shirt and start to head for Neubrandenburg. 

Pleasant lakeside promenade. 

It wouldn't be a blog without an ancient relic of some sort! Here is a chapel and an old town gate tower. 

The storm did arrive and it washed the van slightly too. 

Frustration at the Hymer dealership when they we unable to help is with a brand new Hymer switch. We now have to wait until we get to Hamburg to get it sort out. We couldn't even order a new one to be sent to Hymer at Hamburg!!

Still raining in Neubrandenburg so we decide to make our way to Hamburg more quickly than we had planned to do. 

An interesting house mural in Neubrandenburg. 

So we travel a little way out of town to our overnight stop in the old village of Penzlon. 

We are also in the land of the "Burgs". A burg in the village of Penzlin. 

Timber-framed house in Penzlin. 

View from the castle - with Hilton getting into the picture!

The witches playground at the castle's wall. Protestant Mecklenburg was one of the few areas of Germany that held witches trials. 

Just about to settle back for our last meal of pirogi, the last remaining link to Poland. 

Another pic from today:

This van pulled in beside us today!