Friedrichstadt.

Just left Friedrichstadt in northern Germany. It’s a lovely old place with lots of waterways running through. We stayed two nights at a camp about 10 minutes walk into the town. It’s obviously a popular tourist destination as there seem to be coach loads of (mostly older) people turning up throughout the day. The camp seems to be on the edge of what I can only imagine is a flood defence. Like a huge mound of earth that runs for as far as you can see with a large river the other side of it. Maybe that’s what they call a dyke? Anyway it seems to be working well and I never once had to resort to sticking my finger in it!

Strange thing really, it’s a nice old place but kind of boring at the same time. The most exciting thing we did was to visit a model railway which was about half a mile out of the town. That was quite impressive specially since I’m a bit of a sucker for that kind of thing. Never did completely grow up, but then, who wants to? Lynne tagged along stoically tolerant of my inner child! I spent most of the time looking for small details like the scale model couple fornicating in the field, or the couple fornicating in a well-lit bedroom! Brilliant representation, the woman actually bouncing up and down whilst straddling the lucky little plastic man. One of the constructors obviously has the same kind of smutty mindset as me! Well, we’re only human!

I took a number of photographs none of which were particularly inspiring but I thought I’d include one anyway. In this image I was quietly pleased with myself for the way I managed to conceal a car park full of cars behind the flowers on the left. Trouble was just as I took the shot the rather large woman in the pink top walked into the frame! Totally ruined!! Still, she’s as much right to be there as anyone I suppose.

The only other exciting things we did was to go grocery shopping at the local Edeka which also housed the local post office where Lynne posted her letter to Ben. Living life on the edge like this, I don’t know how long I can keep up the pace. My last few weeks at work before retiring I had numerous people regale me with story’s of people retiring and then immediately dying. Brilliant, like they say, who needs enemy’s? The reason I bring that up is that we both seem to have started a slow deterioration as I now have a bad back, something I’ve never suffered before in my life. Lynne also has a stiff neck for some reason which has kept her (and me) awake at night.

Anyway, that’s Friedrichstadt, not much more to say really except maybe for the almost constant flocks of geese flying overhead presumably migrating south for the winter. Maybe they know something we don’t?