13. Egestorfer
Hof, Near Hamburg
After we had our breakfast in the apartment, we packed and were on our
way early. We stopped off at Stefan’s on the way out to return an umbrella
Oliver forgot in the car and then said our goodbyes to the Paull’s and others.
It was not a social visit but just the return of a ‘lost’ item.
We wanted to at least make it to Hamburg today, so we set our GPS for Copenhagen,
Denmark (our eventual destination) and off we went. We were on the road by
9.30 AM.
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| Egestorfer Hof |
This was an all day drive going north using one Autobahn after
another, we just followed the GPS.
We even used the GPS to find us a hotel when we had had
enough driving for the day. It found the Egestorfer Hof.
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| Thatched Roof |
And the machine found us a jewel. We were in a small
town, off the main road. The Hotel had all the amenities one could ask for, great
dinner, a good breakfast and was easy to find and had plenty of parking. The
town was a small town that time forgot. Some houses had still thatched roofs
like they had on houses years ago.
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| Main Street |
We are in the region of the ’Lüneburger Heide’, a heath area a bit
away from Hamburg, that is a popular vacation spot in Germany. Many poems and
songs were written about this area.
While we were moving into the hotel for the night, a
group of Norwegian Motorcycle dudes moved in too. I counted 8 BMW machines in
the parking lot.
It’s amazing how everybody in Europe, all the ’young’
folks, speak English fluently.
We conversed with the Norwegians and even the personal of
the hotel using English. Those folks could switch over in mid sentence, from
one language to the other. Amazing!
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| Norwegian BMW Riders |
Our room had a very large, a bit odd, balcony, it was a
cozy room and certainly large enough. We did not need our fan this night, we
left it in the car.
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| Our Strangely Shaped Balcony |
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| Another New Friend |
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