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.

spreewald + brandenburg I

this hot summer was our our holiday completely different than usually. we just sat in our car and drove north :-). our first stop was the east german water and forest nature area of spreewald (=river spree's forest) in the brandenburg district in eastern germany. 

river spree and its islands, forests, inhabitants, tourists, ...

for the first two nights we have made a reservation in kreblitz (luckau, lübbenau) in an old blacksmith's manufacture where we have felt like in a museum. all following nights we have to decide and look for a roof above our heads spontaneously. even if it was not always easy in the main tourist season, we've got very different accommodations from wooden cottage without water, toilet and electric power up to a castle resort at a lake ...

the car statistics show us a short overview about our wonderful 2 weeks :-)

our stops through germany, poland, lithuania, poland, germany were:

• spreewald ~ pictures in this blog post below
• city of cottbus
• ucermark lake district
• polish baltic sea coast
• german teutonic knights castle marienburg (malbork, in today's poland)
• castle karnity + masurian lake district (PL, mazury, masuren)
• vilnius (lithuania)
• water castle trakai (lithuania)
• lodz and central poland
• lusatia = lausitz = luzice (eastern germany)
• north bavarian lakes (rothsee)

 lübbenau, the main gate to spreewald was quite full of tourists, all other areas were almost empty

our blacksmith's inn in kreblitz / luckau

 city of luckau

lausitz lake district. this lake near luckau covers a former mining area (even if lausitz is known as a brown coal area, here was probably a metal mine if i remember the information boards correctly. probably copper or iron ore, who knows?)

the best of all wives :-)

good-bye, dear spreewald ...

more holiday pictures are here

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