Day 3, The Day I Was A Rebel!

Oh boy, yet another long long day of driving, yet I write this propped up on my bed in my cell, oops I mean cabin on board the Stena Line Scandinavia en route to Gothenburg.

We left our truckers stop by 9.20am, and hit the autobahn. Mindless driving towards Bremen, where we had scheduled a supermarket stop to restock on essentials such as beer.

We got there by mid day, and true to form Lyn rushed me trough the all important chocolate choosing, only to spend hours on the non essential beer choosing. Rolly eye emoji! Shopping in a German supermarket is hard without some knowledge of the German language. I did my best, with trusty Google translate in hand, and ended up buying bread “with bear’s garlic” and “behind meat” ham! Yum!

We then had to head towards Hamburg, which Lyn had been worried about, as the traffic is notoriously bad there, and we were on a tight ferry schedule. True to form our sat nav took us the scenic route, and we ended up crossing the river 3 times, and even driving down some cobbled streets. We took one turning and happily drove past some plastic gating part blocking off a street. Not to be deterred, we carried on driving up a freshly tarmaced road…….only to find the other end totally blocked off by more gating! Now bare in mind we were on a tight schedule, what were we to do…….so with Lyn’s gentle urging (!) I jumped out of the van, and removed the bollard, allowing us through. Never mind the fact my sandals had stuck to the road, we were through, and I even got a big thumbs up from the driver behind us who had followed us through. Rebel with a cause! We managed to get to the ferry on time, and drove on board to start our 15 hour journey.

We had opted for an outside 3 berth cabin to give ourselves a bit extra room. I don’t know what I had expected really, my mind had been veering somewhere between a luxury cruise liner and and Das Boot! It was more towards the Das Boot end of the spectrum, but cleaner than I had imagined, and, drum roll, it has air con!! Maybe I’ll sleep tonight. In saying that, today has been a nippy 28 degrees, positively Baltic I’m glad to say.

So, here we are, we’ve waved goodbye to Kiel, and are now passing Denmark. We have a great view out of our cabin window (I would say port hole but it’s not round), and we are watching the sun set over the sea. We’ve been up on the breezy top deck and explored duty free and all the bars. Nothing to do now but relax and wait to arrive in Sweden tomorrow morning, when I suspect the best part of our holiday will begin.