{"id":314,"date":"2019-06-08T23:29:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2019\/?p=314"},"modified":"2019-06-08T23:31:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T20:31:57","slug":"germany-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.gr\/greece2019\/germany-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Again :: \u0397 \u0393\u03b5\u03c1\u03bc\u03b1\u03bd\u03af\u03b1 \u039e\u03b1\u03bd\u03ac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bodensee as seen from Austria. On the left is Switzerland; on the right is Germany.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tonight is\nmy last night abroad and I am staying back in the area of Germany I came to\nduring my first trip to Germany in 2006 (in the same hotel even); the same\nplace I came to when I first drove to Germany 2 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started\nwith a good breakfast at my hotel in Bregenz. After checking out I took the\nPf\u00e4nderbahn to a viewpoint above the city \u2013 1064m in height. The views from the\ntop allowed me to see all the way to the Swiss Alps in one direction, to\nGermany\u2019s Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg and Bavaria in another direction, and across the\ncity of Bregenz and the Bodensee Lake in another direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also enjoyed wandering around the free-of-charge Tierpark (animal park) at the top of the mountain, home to a range of Alpine animals. The deer were too far away to see properly but I did manage to get this photo of them…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got on\nthe road I think at around midday and set the Sat Nav for Stuttgart. I had a\ngood 4 hour journey ahead of me and Stuttgart was roughly half way between Bregenz\nand Boppard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving in\nGermany I was back on the Autobahn, and going fast. The Autobahn today also\ngave me the first big traffic jam I\u2019ve had since the M25 3 weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nStuttgart I stopped off at the Fernsehturm (the TV tower), to enjoy the views across\nBaden-W\u00fcrttemberg and to enjoy a drink and a light lunch in the Panorama Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stuttgart, The capital of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, is Germany’s 6th largest city<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Boppard-am-Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My arrival\nin Boppard marked the first time since Lefkada that I have seen other British\ncars in any great number. There was the odd British camper van in Switzerland\nand I got a thumbs up from a bike on GB plates who overtook me in a traffic jam\non the Autobahn today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After I had\nchecked in to my hotel and then walked in to town enjoy my last evening meal\nabroad. By dinner time tomorrow, I\u2019ll be back in the UK. In some ways I\u2019m so\nclose to home, yet so far away at the same time! Driving on the left will feel\nweird after 3 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last\ncouple of days haven\u2019t been without their problems; Somewhere along the lines\nmy passenger side wing mirror has been damaged \u2013 I don\u2019t know by what, but I\nthink it happened while I was parked in Italy, it is like something has hit it.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve\npatched it back up as best I can and it seems to be holding OK but I\u2019ll want to\nget that fixed sooner rather than later. I\u2019m still not 100% happy that the\nalignment of the mirror is totally correct, so I\u2019m being extra careful when\nchanging lanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other\nproblem is I have another warning light which has been on since Athens (it did\ngo off briefly this afternoon but then came back on). The light is telling me a\nbulb has gone. The only trouble is I can\u2019t figure out which one, everything\nwhich I think should work, does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other than\nthat so far so good and I\u2019m now within a day\u2019s driving of the UK on roads I\nknow fairly well, now that I\u2019m back in an area of Germany I know well. It\u2019ll be\na long day on the road tomorrow \u2013 Maybe as many as 14 hours including stops \u2013\nso I will need to stop plenty of times, drink plenty of water, eat a good\nbreakfast\/lunch etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So given\nthat I\u2019ve got a long day tomorrow, I\u2019m going to have an early night, I\u2019ll go in\nto my room and stick the TV on for a bit (I can get some BBC programmes out\nhere, albeit dubbed in to German, but that doesn\u2019t bother me) and I did manage\nto get a BBC channel in English last night, which was showing W1A and Live At\nthe Apollo \u2013 I think it is one I\u2019ve seen before; Josh Widdecombe talking about\ngoing on holiday and being asked by friends and colleagues \u201ccan you get me\u2026\u201d\nwhich turns the last day of his holiday in to a day of going round looking for\nthings, like in an episode of The Apprentice. Somehow I felt this was quite\naccurate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gute Nacht,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s Mileage: 304.5
Accumulative Mileage: 3288.9<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journey Map<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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