Off to Berlin

And away we go again.

Driving the last few days was like navigating in England. Lots of isolated roads with bush down both sides, so it feels like you'r cutting a path through a forest. There is probably a village, town or city 150m to your left, but you would never know. Occasionally the road we are on meets with others, sometimes branching off with the party sign, sometimes going over or under another equally large road. Still no sense of where we are.

Don't know if I mentioned this, but it seems like the famous autobahns of germany are a myth. More like an autobahn lane. Same again today. Zooming past on the inside lane, while normal people stay in the other lanes. I think there is a speed limit for trucks and buses of 100km/h.

Another strange thing is that Trucks are not allowed on the roads on a Sunday. Unless they are carrying urgent supplies. While that makes for a deceptively easy drive on a Sunday, it must add cost and complexity to the supply chain. Trucks parked up at truck stops all along the motorways, so the drivers are being paid to entertain themselves for 24-hrs.

Today the terrain is different. Lots of corn fields, then lots of windmills, and then lots of solar panels.

And lots of road works. In the cities and on the motorways. Just like at home, they choose the most inconvenient time to do all of this work, probably at the end of the financial year, so that they can blow their budget with unfinished work, so that they can justify a bigger budget next year. Standard bureaucratic playbook.

Here's an observation: Why do they always put out a "ROAD WORKS" sign out, when it doesn't? They never put it out when the road is working perfectly well!!!

Another observation. Quite often we see this type of sign on the road.

Not once have we seen a dancing deer. Not even once. Disappointment doesn't begin to describe it. 

Talk about over-promising...