We come back one hour to late, what Mima has paid for the parking place: 70 Euros penalty! I have to change more Euros, have to find a post office in the train station, to pay this penalty. So we leave Copenhagen in west direction - a highway drive around 300 Kilometres more till we reach Germany. The boat would be better, I know now, but to travel brings more excitement. This day brings my mind over the edge. In the evening we take the first Danish Camping Place, pay our 20 Euros, and I buy a bottle ''Akvavit'' - 45 % alcohol. The first sips smell terrible. At the end I empty a quarter of the bottle. Mima sleeps upstairs. The last four travel days ahead I feel mixed up: One side of me wants to continue the war for money, another part wants to relax, grow a grey long bear, settle down somewhere, best on the Norway Atlantic coast, read the books, that most people throw in the rubbish today, because video entertains with less effort. |
Tuesday 28. September The journey back from Norway, Sweden over the bridges to and in Denmark is more expensive, longer and much more arduous, than the way from Sassnitz, Germany, by ship to Trelleborg in South Sweden. After our black-&-burn-out-syndrome and the 70 Euro penalty for wrong parking in Copenhagen I enjoy the safety of the camping place in Soroe with Mima and alcohol Akvavit: 45 %. The result of the sharp fluid in the morning headache. My booked four minutes for the hot shower are used up, when my hairs are still soaked with soap. So the rest of the cleaning ceremony has to be done with cold water. The way around the little lake in Soroe is 8,5 Kilometres long, we pass on our bikes. The next huge bridge from Korsor to Odense we pay with our last Danish 250 crowns - 34 Euros. Now we have to differentiate between three kinds of money-crowns from Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Nobydick needs fuel too, so we have to change the third time money in Denmark, each time with three to four Euros fee! Nobydick is thirsty for his Diesel Oil, so the car changes all money into the engine's food. Happy we live as woman and man. Mima is such a playful company, mostly in the mood to joke. It's such an innocent childlike game we play. We look for fishes in the lake, imitate the sounds of seagulls and ducks, admire huge old trees or explore faces in clouds and roots of the trees. When we leave the car, we walk around, buy ''prey'' like milk, yogurt, bread, fruits and salad. Most things we bought in Munich and carry on board in Nobydick's ''stomach''. The camping place in Soroe provides the water tank with fresh water, and there we leave the used water from the second tank under the floor of the car. Our two beds are quickly prepared for the night. And in two, three minutes in the morning our little living room is arranged as well. Late in the afternoon we cross the border to Germany, the most northern town Flensburg. We drive a small street 10 Kilometres out of this town at the seaside to ''Gluecksburg'' - ''Lucky Castle''. There is the most beautiful castle in Germany, surrounded by water. This sort we call ''Water Castle''. At the beach we find a costly hotel with pool and sauna, So we play water games together and find sleep today rather late: 10.00 p.m. The best time to start the day is 5.00 a.m., to use the first daylight to drive around 6.30. Tomorrow I'll guess we will sleep a bit longer. We rest tonight 50 meters away from the costly Hotel ''Intermare'', where one person pays for the night 85 Euros and 23 Euros for dinner. Our dinner: some spoons of yogurt with a can of mandarins. I'm happy tonight and feel love for my little woman in the bed above. Some raindrops fall from the tree on Nobydick's plastic roof. A soft hammering shower. We have travelled till today 3500 Kilometres and have still 1000 Kilometres home to Munich. The car is dirty like my trousers are. In my Camel vest are some holes. But my eyes are smiling, my hairs are brighter from the salt water and the sun, my muscles function better and my body feels stronger. One handicap we still suffer from, we two loving healthy couple: we need to share a half brain together. Enough till tonight, hopefully enough for the end of the journey. The end of our life journey too! Good night, beloved reader. |
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