Pt3 - 2: SOUTHERN GERMANY 23 rd – 28 th June If it’s Sunday it must be Germany. There was nobody to gestampen our passports as we crossed the Rhine on the autobahn to Freiburg. From there we swung east into the heart of the Black Forest, which lived up to its name. By now the rain had set in again and even though it was only mid-afternoon it was dark enough to flick the headlights on. We wound through steep moody hills covered in dense stands of symmetrically straight pines; you half expected the Big Bad Wolf to chase Red Riding Hood across the road. By the time we arrived at Seerbrugg on the eastern tip of the Schluchsee the showers had developed into a biblical deluge which sounded like rocks on the roof of the silver bullet. We pulled into a carpark on the lake and sat in a cold grey silence watching the water sluice down the windscreen. This is supposed to be summer for christ’s sake! We could have this weather much more cheaply back in bloody Bridgetown and fo...
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