We had a leisurely breakfast before venturing into Bautzen for a more serious look around the town and to have a final lunch in Germany at a fish restaurant. The town was most interesting and the lunch, with fresh Norwegian fish was very tasty.
We visited the cathedral - as one does in these places - and noticed it was both a Lutheran and a Catholic place of worship. What is more amazing is that this sharing has been going on since an agreement back in 1530. At that time a 4 metre high divider was in place between the front and the back of the church. Today it is about 70 centimetres high!
The Catholics hold their service at 8.30am and the Lutherian service is at 10.30am! What a great arrangement, seeing that there were wars fought in the name of these two religions!
A further wander around the town took us to the Schloss, the Waterpower, and the Rathaus - all central to the charm of the city. An interesting museum at the Schloss outlined the ethnic groups associated with Bautzen- the Sorbs.
Quaint streets
We later returned to the van and set our GPS to Gorlitz and the Polish border.
Our first task on crossing the border was to purchase a Polish pre-paid SIM card. These were not sold in a phone shop but instead we were directed to a newsagent where we purchased a card with 3gb of data for about $5 Australian. And further to this, when I asked the chap to activate it for me he replied, "It should be working immediately!" And it was - no messing about with ID etc, just plug it in and you are up and running.
We drove on to our overnight stop at the small village of Zareba.
