Thursday 22nd June 2017

This morning there was heavy rain at our parking place in the overpriced and overcrowded seaside aire. We moved on south passing the city of Lubeck by briefly resorting to the motorway. We came on to here which is an island in the middle of the river Elbe at Geesthact just to the east of Hamburg. We did a grocery and drinks shop at the local Lidl - if you think Lidl in Britain is good value you should try them here in Germany - even cheaper! There are enormous locks here to accommodate the huge cargo ships which travel along the Elbe.

Many of these ships are really big.

Ann went for a walk down this leafy path on the island. Our van can just be seen at the end of the path.

She saw some ducks along the way.

She also met this calf.

And she also saw this cormorant drying its wings with a duck looking on.

When Ann got back from here walk the weather was extremely close with a temperature of over 30C. Not long afterwards there was a violent storm with high winds, very heavy rain and thunder and lightning.

The weather soon calmed down,

There was a beautiful sunset.

We saw this nice cloudscape with a nearby wind generator in the foreground. The Germans are way ahead of the British in creating renewable energy.

Today we traveled 82 miles (132 kilometres). We are at N53.43154 E10.33545