Picture Book...Germany's Far North-East and North Poland

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Anklam/ Germany...Karnin Lifting-Bridge WW2

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnin_Lift_Bridge

Map https://bit.ly/3dh6dS7


The railway bridge was lifted when ships entered and left the Peenehaff.
Lowered, it was part of the main line that brought tourists to the Baltic Seaside Resorts.

More importantly, it was crucial to the Nazi's Peenemuende Rocket Development
site at the north of Usedom Island, bringing in supplies, materials and personel day and night



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A quiet, tiny cluster of fishing shacks....


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...until the local Wild Hog shows up :wink:


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Time for a stroll through the marshes nearby


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Ruegen Island...Best of the West

Map https://bit.ly/2WuZqxk



Another lazy afternoon .
This time along the western parts , the ferry at Wittow and up towards Putgarten @ Cape Arkona


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Somewhere in the haze...Copenhagen/ Denmark


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Sweet little singlelaners connecting all the hamlets everywhere, the backblocks are FULL of 'em!


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Near Suhrendorf/ Haide.... surf's up!


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It's somehow hard to comprehend that most of that "Haff" is only a foot or 2 deep...when those guys splat themselves they just stand in mid-calf deep water, step onto their boards and are off again.



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Thanks for the great show, mate...that was awesome!



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you really should translate the print on the rear window, Pete

"Men of steel drive cars made of cardboard" :wow:



It's impossible to try and wrap the entire topic of the "Trabbi" car with all its technical/historical/political/ social/ industrial etc connotations into a single sentence or 2...to then get the joke and sarcasm of that rear-window sticker.

It's just one of those local "in-jokes" that don't mean anything to anybody else.








Time to keep moving north...


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The German "Avenue-Road", Germany's longest scenic route...a quick Wiki-quote:

The German Avenue Road (German: Deutsche Alleenstraße) is a tree-lined holiday route that runs the length of Germany from Rügen on the Baltic Sea to Lake Constance on its border with Switzerland.[1][2] About 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) long, it is Germany's longest scenic route. The project is supported by the "German Avenue Route Association" (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Alleenstraße), whose members are the German Automobile Club ("ADAC"), the German Tourism Association, the German Forest Conservation Society, and other institutions.[3] The forestry scientist, Hans Joachim Fröhlich, was its major proponent.

The aim of the Association is to preserve, protect, and maintain avenues in Germany and to restore old avenues after they were destroyed in many places in recent years by road development and safety projects.[4] The Association says the Route connects "the East with West and North to South [and] is a symbol of German unity and common effort of the people of the old and new federal states for the protection of nature."[5]

Cobblestones still serve as pavement on many avenues in the former East German areas. An spokesman for the Route says the average speed is about 70 km/h (43 mph).[6]

The first segment of the German Avenue Road between Rügen Island in the Baltic Sea and Reinsberg was inaugurated on 3 May 1993, progressively completed over the next several years, and completed on 25 May 2000 with the segment from Ettlingen, near Karlsruhe, to the island of Reichenau in Lake Constance on the German-Swiss border.[7]


Waiting for the ferryman at Wittow


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Fishing shacks along the way...the local version of KFC et all.
Boats out the side, smoking cabinet in the back... pots and pans, charcoal grill and dinged-up stainless out the front.
No deep-fryer, no Eftpos or mountains of paper and cardboard anywhere.
Where a quick-bite doesn't mean "shoving it down the throat" but involves sitting down and becoming part of the bigger place for a little while.
Or a long while.


Time-out, man...


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Schreiber's Fisch near Dranske



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Just out of the smoker...cooling down.


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Putgarten and Kap Arkona at the very northern Tip of Ruegen turn out a massive Tourist-Circus with hectares of coach-parking and the usual generic fluff...drive-through and turn south instead.

Views across the bays from Hoch Hilger near Neuenkirchen


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Stoertebecker Brewery, Stralsund...just the regional brewery, nothing fancy. YES, everything works and is used in production every day.

:clap:

https://www.stoertebeker.com/



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It only takes ONE tasting-tray...no shotglass-crap here, either....


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Time for some of their local tucker, too...


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Wasn't that thing bent the other way just before?
Damn, time to quit, methinks....


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Stralsund...Germany's Baltic Pearl


What's Sausage + Sauerkraut to Germany's South...is Currywurst + Pommes to the North.
If you ever find out what's really in it...tell me!
How that mush out of some sliced up banger with curried tomato-sauce topped by limp, soaking fries can be so addictive, I've got no idea.
BUT IT IS!

They got shops everywhere selling nothing else but...like this one just outside Berlin's Tegel Airport Arrivals Hall.


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Lots of this along the way to the northern coast...no signs, no gates, bring your dirt-squirter and have fun.



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Map https://bit.ly/35Ck5Uw


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That near-island in the coastal strip is the old, historic city of Stralsund, a former trading and fishing town being granted city-rights 800years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stralsund

Many of the old things escaped the neglect under the East German Communist regime and have been freshened-up and renovated since re-unification, but there are also many DDR/GDR-relicts around which sometimes makes for a somewhat curious mix.

Breckie on the go? A Wiener on a bun and a pot of coffee...


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Late lunch anyone?



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From junkyard to collectable....


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And what looks like a somewhat neglected city-park on the outskirts...


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...turns out the former main city cemetery with some tucked away corners revealing graves and family vaults of some of the rich trading families.


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Lets get to work!


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Local Sailmaker


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Time to go home...let's grab one of those then....


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Polish Baltic Coast...hmm-ya!


Map https://bit.ly/3cd2uF4


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Going west-to-east along the Polish coast, Swinemuende is still on the mainly German island of Usedom, if by a poofteenth.
The river Swine enters the Baltic Sea just a few k's to the east, making for the name of Swine + Muende (mouth).
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Świnoujście


One of the Swinemuende signature spots...


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...was sadly under re-construction


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...while the waterfront was jampacked with traders hustling China-plastic-crap + tinsel to mainly German tourists, a picture that sadly extended into EVERY nook and cranny of the entire Polish Baltic seaside. :bang:



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The other side of the harbour was reached by route93, the major international transit route serviced by 2 ferries running ping-pong across the river Swine.
Great entertainment here by an extended family of porkers excitedly grunting and running riot among the German BMWs and Audis and the "Eastern-block" Tatra and vintage Mercedes and Hanomag trucks lined up for the next sailing...


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The historic Kohlberg/ polish: Kolobrzeg Lighthouse
Another river entering the Baltic Sea, another ancient coastal trading place, another of the old Hanse-cities


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World Premiere: the Givi Wicker!



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