Up early, lined up for the 7.30 ferry to Rostock, in Northern Germany, and ate our muesli in the car park. Six and a half hours, no free food this time, and we DID go up on deck to look at the view today. Very smooth, as all our sea crossings have been.

Yesterday, Sweden and Denmark . Today Sweden and Germany. Yesterday Copenhagen, today Berlin.

Drove 250 km to the outskirts of Berlin, in on-and-off drizzle. No rain for weeks , it seems, so cannot complain!

Passed an odd site on the side of the motorway- tiers of derelict concrete seating, feet away from the side of the road. Remains of the Deutchlandhalle, an arena built by Hitler for the 1936 Olympics and supposedly demolished in 2011, but obviously not completely removed.

Tried first "City" camping, and that was full, so we were directed to another, near Potsdam, on the bank of a canal and much nicer. Passed "Checkpoint Bravo", the name given by the Allies to the Autobahn crossing between West Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Booked into the camp for 3 nights while we "do" Berlin.

Noted an odd shaped building in the camp, the base of which housed the washing machines. Worked out from the map that it was watch tower, and later confirmed with the camp owner. The tower was only about 200 metres from the West Berlin border, after The Wall went up, and it was to stop folk swimming down the canal to get to the west.

Tried out the new side curtain we got in December. Easy to put up and worked well, so a success in keeping us dry.