I'm plotting my route to Sweden and trying to find good campsites on the way.
Undecided as yet as to where in Germany is worth stopping. I don't have a very high opinion of Germany having spent a godawful far-too-long weekend in Saarbrucken a long time ago. Yes, I'm writing off a whole country on that basis.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:22, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Well, maybe you don't like the vibe.
Stop at some services and see how you feel this time round.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:26, Reply)

The good thing about German service stations
is that they sell peanut crisps.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:27, Reply)

What exactly?
Crispy peanuts? Nut flavoured crisps?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:28, Reply)

They're like wotsits
but peanut flavour. My god, they're good.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:33, Reply)

I like the dill-flavoured crisps they have in Poland and Latvia
and god-knows where else.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:36, Reply)

I've heard bad reports of Saarbrucken too so it may be just exceptionally dull.
Hamburg is a fun place. While camping in Germany I reckon you'll encounter a shocking number of unexpectedly nude people.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:33, Reply)

Hamburg is en route
and I'm pondering whether we stop there or in Bremen. I must try to be blasé about the nude people.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:35, Reply)

I have been to Munster
but I spent almost the entire time getting drunk in the park. Seemed nice enough, old university town, lots of bicycles.

ninjaedit had rendered this sterling advice useless.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 20:49, Reply)

Yeah, I changed my mind and thought Bremen sounded nicer.
I'm willing to be swayed on Munster though.

Think my outgoing plan is now: Bruges, Bremen (buy peanut crisps), Copenhagen (import blackmarket Marmite), visit a b3tan in Sweden, visit my favourite geek couple in Sweden (do the Midsommar thing).
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 21:23, Reply)

Midsommar sounds awesome
copious drinking and lashings of pickled herring. I tried curried herring last year, nomtastic.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 21:45, Reply)

It's very cool.
I spent Midsommar there a few years ago. We got very drunk, sang some bizarre songs, went swimming in a lake during the midnight twilight and went joyriding in a canoe.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 11 Jun 2011, 21:57, Reply)