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Fuelled up for the hike, not a bad cheap hotel (Bastion in Kostrzyn)even if a bit grim looking. Breakie is good, just waiting on queue to clear from coffee machine.
Gratuitous pic to wake peeps up. I won’t be trying the gherkins again, more sweet than sharp.
2nd Oct 2018 6:29 am
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Blimey, your making me hungry David
2nd Oct 2018 6:47 am
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That’s the idea.
Couple of rolls are squirrelled away for lunch and will grab an apple or two on way out, healthy option. Saves shopping as I have ham & cheese in Engel.
2nd Oct 2018 6:51 am
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davidhem wrote:
Blimey, your making me hungry
Me too, love the egg combo of boiled and scrambled! Stu
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2nd Oct 2018 7:32 am
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Couple of pics of a war memorial for WW1 soldiers in Küstrin.
Side as seen from the east, looking towards the defending positions
Side looking towards the advancing tide of the Red Army.
I gather the defending Germans weren’t too unhappy at shooting at Soviets, Poles etc that might have been using it to hide behind it.
Did someone say fresh coffee. That’s it, I’m not going to dump the car bin bag for a few days, smells far too nice!!
2nd Oct 2018 9:09 am
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Polish coffee is meant to be very good (so I am informed by a Polish friend ),seems only fair you sample said brew and give your usual unbiased report Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
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2nd Oct 2018 12:17 pm
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That was from a pack of Tesco Finest Espresso that went all the way to North Cape and back earlier in the year. Will have a look at Polish coffee but I just hope Polish for Espresso is Espressoski otherwise I’m stuffedski.
And where I’m sat at the mo enjoying said coffee.
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2nd Oct 2018 1:08 pm
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View over the Oder towards the Seelow Heights, the last line of Defense before Berlin, somewhere in the mist. Just imagine everything white, the Oder frozen and lines of tanks with infantry riding on top heading West.
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This could have been an op for artillery, or the command position for the 1st Polish Army. Lots of trenches around here, and on the forward slope.
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I think I’m about where the 1st PA was, certainly the memorial just before here would suggest that.
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PS And couldn’t go past without saying Hi to this SWEEEEEEEET little paddle steamer ferry.
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2nd Oct 2018 1:46 pm
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Couple more pics.
Around here they have a novel use for old railway sleepers, they use them as fence posts!!
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And final pic before heading back to Kostrzyn and the hotel, I give you the Oder up close and personal. This is where I’m glad sticky gearbox linkages don’t affect R.
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2nd Oct 2018 3:11 pm
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Right, pics above moved here.
As weather wasn’t that good I turned right off Rte 1 to this ship lift thingie instead of tromping up Reitwein Spur, which I’ll do tomorrow.
As it says on the tin, it’s a lift for ships.
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Well not sure this qualifies as a ship but it’ll do.
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And in real time, don’t be tempted to skip to the end.
And no, I didn’t race it to the top, I hadn’t bought my ticket and had I bought my ticket I wouldn’t have seen the lift working. Well makes sense to me.
The bit at the top, where the “ship” would have come from. Note flooring, more on that later.
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View to the canal below, not much going on today then.
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And Dee hiding behind some trees wondering what the idiotic owner is doing all the way up there.
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Right, about this flooring malarkie. Confession 1 on this post (of 2), I’m not that keen on heights. I’m especially not keen on heights when the only thing stopping gravity pulling me down to the road way many, many, many feet below is what looks like something taken from the patio of a garden when it’s having a makeover. And that’s it, that’s road through those slats. There are a few horizontal beams but you’d have to be very luck to catch one on the way past. Not impressed, that’s on the walk way to the lift bit, so the concrete blocks on the main gubbins should be better? No. No gaps but when I stepped on one it dropped an inch or so with a moderately loud bang. Even less impressed! I then had to get back across the garden decking to terra firma, all the while it was blowing a mild hoolie.
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And my homework for tonight. That lift was built from 1927 to 1934. Why want it reduced to scrap towards the end of WW2 as it would have been a pretty major route for supplies into the heart of the Reich? I know bombing wasn’t that accurate but it must have been tempting, surely.
And in case that happens belatedly (not us but Mr Putin might get the ‘ump with Merkel) they are building a new lift. Very nice it looks too. Note walk way to the main part looks a lot better and I bet no decking to be seen there.
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Which brings me on to Confession 2. I had to break 1st unwritten rule of RT by back tracking twice. I had a road closure to contend with so headed out on a detour, but no data feed so detour was a bit wing & prayer job. Once I had data, and lunch, headed back on new suggested route as w&p one was rubbish. For new suggested route I then met no vehicles sign so that was a bust (not my fault, it happens) I then broke another rule, headed to the road closure at Odeberg to see if I could sneak through. Needles to say I couldn’t so more backtracking. But the absolutely cardinal rule I broke was I hadn’t loaded up the GoogMaps data on da pad before I left home, nor my backup maps.me data. That’s being rectified through 4meg hotel connection, not 110meg connection at home. Knuckles wrapped!
A few more pics of the IS2, tanks a lot for viewing.
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IS2 photobombing pic of D4
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And lunch on the canal, you can’t say I don’t take peeps to all the best lunch spots.
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PS And vid of a Polish train to prove some forms of transport move slower than I do. I took the vid as I could see it approach but it felt like continents move faster. Ok, slight exaggeration but I was sat there for ages.
2nd Oct 2018 4:22 pm
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),seems only fair you sample said brew and give your usual unbiased report 
But the absolutely cardinal rule I broke was I hadn’t loaded up the GoogMaps data on da pad before I left home, nor my backup maps.me data. That’s being rectified through 4meg hotel connection, not 110meg connection at home. Knuckles wrapped!
