We checked out of Alpen Club Schliersee a day early. In my original travel plans, mapped out on Google maps, I figured we could leave Schliersee on Sat, 21st, and drive half way back to Goteborg, stopping around Berlin or so. Well, the itinerary mentioned a ferry and originally I didn’t realize what that all involves! But after taking the ferry from Sweden to Germany, I realized that it would be more than just waiting for the next ferry across the water! We were planning on leaving Germany from a different route but then found the timing to make the ferry across the smaller part of the channel would not work in order for us to get to Goteborg by Sunday. So we reserved the Stena Line ferry again from Kiel for Sat night and took a different route back to Kiel.
When we left Schliersee we stopped at KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau, the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. You can see more about it here: http://kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/index.html What an emotional visit! And kind of scary seeing quite a few similarities in the propaganda to today’s times.
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| Jourhouse - main entrance & exit |
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| "Work brings freedom" |
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| Jourhouse from the inside |
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| View from warehouse to Barracks B |
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| Roll call yard - view from Barracks B |
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| Never Again |
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| very powerful memorial sculpture |
After we left Dachau, we travelled to Arnstadt, our stopover on the way to Kiel. It was over a 3 hr drive so we were able to get reset emotionally.
Bob had found a hotel that was part of an old brewery in this area of Germany known as Thuringia. We didn’t know it but this central area in Germany was the home of Johann Sebastian Bach! Also, Franz Liszt and Friedrich Schiller were from this area too! Devin would have loved it here! And what a very interesting hotel in another beautiful area. When I made the reservation, I mentioned it was our 25th anniversary and asked for the best location possible. We got the only room with a full balcony! And just another place we need to return and visit!
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| Our balcony above the Hotel sign |
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| Watching Bob from the balcony |
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