Saturday 24th June 2017

It was raining this morning. We had showers and serviced the van. We set off south and then turned west through rural Germany bypassing to the south both the cities of Hamburg and Bremen. Following the advice of our satnav Tomasina (the Tom Tom) we were at times traveling on quite small rural roads. On the section pictured here you had to drive on the left to keep on the tarmac!

Many of the roads around here are avenues, tree lined on both sides.

We saw a few interesting buildings along the way. It rained off and on all day.

We stopped for the day at the town of Diepholz. We are staying at the stellplatz (the German equivalent of a French aire). It is free to stay here but you have to pay for water and electricity. Our van is visible furthest to the left. When we put up our satellite dish we found that we could receive the full range of British TV programmes for the first time in a long time. We have been watching the BBC coverage of the Glastonbury Festival this evening.

Today we traveled 109 miles (175 kilometres). We are at N52.61202 E8.36932