Devall Travels

As many of the buildings at Dora have been destroyed and the inmates parade ground turned into a communist arena by the former GDR government, the impact of the inhumanities that took place until it was discovered by the US Army in 1945 is hard to conjure in the mind. Dora Flickr From Dora we continued east towards Leipzig and finally to Colditz. Nothing could prepare the visitor for the sheer size of the castle on a rocky promontory overlooking the town. Despite sometimes torrential rain with near zero visibility, our arrival was in the evening sunshine.  The TomTom took us to the main gatehouse that is by the entrance to the German courtyard.  Checking in was easy and we then moved the car, humphing all the bags back up the hill from the Castle's own car park was  a little harder! Finally arrived a Colditz Castle.  This is the view from the window  in the corridor outside our room. Dinner was a 40cm pizza car of the Istanbul Pizza House in the town. Be w...

Up late and fuelled and on the road about 9am. Had breakfast in the little Cafe Ayer attached to the Aral petrol station near the hotel. On the way eastwards we went on BS1 right through the centre of Dortmund and past the football ground at Borussia. Heavy rain on the 44 autobahn reduced speed to about 80kph at times. Stopped at the services for a coffee. Next stop Nordhausen where we had hoped to find an imbiss kiosk and get a sausage (bratwurst or bockwurst I wasn't fussy) but could we find any traditional imbiss stalls? Could we buggery. In the end we had to make do with a lunch of noodles from a Vietnamese  stall!  Not the same Germany!