uckermark II + brandenburg V

our summer holiday trip (june 2020) in the shadow of the corona coronoia covid-19 plandemic continued with its last chapter in the federal state of brandenburg, BB. unlike our visit 10 days ago, this time we travelled through brandenburg's eastern areas, especially the lake district uckermark, UC and the river spree lowlands & wetlands of spreewald. of course, we have been there 2 years ago as well, but this time we've visited also some others landmarks, e.g. the chorin abbey (kloster chorin).

enjoy few pictures 😃

ostrich farm 'rätz' in berkenlatten close to gerswalde (uckermark UC, brandenburg BB, germany DE)

nice, our king's suite for 2 nights without light, water, toilet & co.

our neighbors at the ostrich ranch, a stork family with 3 babies

kangaroos in brandenburg? i would expect them rather in australia (darwin 2019)

barefoot parcour @ostrich ranch ~ gymnast meets fakir 😄

chorin abbey (kloster chorin)

lake sabinensee in willmine ~ munich occupies uckermark (M+M+M), isn't it?

lübbenau is the gate to spreewald. this time we've met our friends from the rajasthan-journey

cafe fontane ist our place to be in lübbenau ...

... is this crazy fountain (der sagenhafte brunnen) maybe s.th. for you? 😤

gleis 3 is a cultural center today

our cheap and nice hotel 'landgasthaus auszeit' in drahnsdorf (brandenburg, germany)

this timber-framed construction is probably just decoration, if you asked me. anyway, i love it.

the church in drahnsdorf 

timber-framed church in duben (brandenburg, germany) + the best of all wives (universe)

flooded clover meadow (shamrock / trefoil ~ kleewiese) at the lake talsperre pöhl close to plauen (sachsen / saxony, germany)

more pictures here.

uckermark I + brandenburg III

we have had many, many stops in the beautiful uckermark in brandenburg and have seen and swam in many, many different lakes... 

our kayak trip in lychen was so great => highly recommended :-)

our stops in the uckermark were berkenlatten (ostrich farm - straußenfarm), friedenfelde, willmine, gerswalde, templin, temmen, lychen, boitzenburg, naugarten, ...

it was really interesting to explore this nice and for german proportions so people-empty area. after 5 or 6 o'clock it was often even difficult to find a restaurant for dinner. for example, one day we have had to drive 20 km from boitzenburg to naugarten only to find out, that the kitchen in a opened restaurant was closed due to illness of the cook. thanks goodness, the owner made a vegetable wrap for us, otherwise we would probably try to eat gras, insects or the like :-)

a very special experience was our stay at the ostrich farm rätz in berkenlatten. as we booked much too late (only few hours before arrival), we have found only a small cottage without water, toilette, shower, electric power inside an ostrich farm. we liked the place, the animals, the owners (we have had the breakfasts together with the family), their barefoot trail, the early morning circuit through the ostrich compound. well, we decided spontaneously to stay one night longer....

and yes, the people seem to help each other. as we stopped beside the road to make few sunset pictures, the first coming car stopped to ask if we needed some help.

my colleague who knows the area very well gave me a vast number of sightseeing tips, so we knew very well which castles, museums, cities, lakes and activities are at the must see & must do list :-)

of course, we also enjoyed to swim in many different lakes: düstersee (our favorite lake for early morning swimming before breakfast), sabinensee, naugartener see, oberpfuhl see, stadtsee, zenssee...

 glashütte (baruth/mark) - museum village, glass manufacturers & arts

cat & lion 😃

water castle gerswalde (wasserburg)

 lake sabinensee in willmine

 city of templin

 lake templiner see

 castle boitzenburg

 ostrich farm rätz in berkenlatten

lake düstersee in temmen

good-bye, beautiful uckermark

more uckermark pictures are here.

the diary of our whole holiday journey is here.

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