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Although we had intended an early start it didn't quite work out but we've decided not to rush anyway so it doesn't matter. Breakfast then a full domestic for Bertie courtesy of the good inhabitants of Bronderslev who provided a useful service point and also allow motorhomes to use their, well, gigantic carpark. Would that UK towns take a leaf out of their book.
But the motorway calls and within a few minutes we were southbound, cruise control on and settled down to a nice steady run south. It had started out warm and dry but as the day progressed we saw more and more sunshine and the temperature rose accordingly - thank goodness for aircon! Being the main north/south route for this part of Denmark it was of course quite busy and free-running but no more mountains, forests or lakes, just kilometres of good old-fashioned somewhat boring motorway - we could have been in the UK.
Stopped for lunch at a service area near Kolding, not noticing the pesky little blackflies until it was too late so it wasn't a protracted stay. It also wasn't long until the traffic built up as we approached the German border - and then it all disappeared! Not for very long, though, as we ran into a humungous traffic queue of about 15km down to the bridge over the Kiel Canal where, once again, it all disappeared. We've no idea why it was so backed up nor where it all went.
So while crawling along Bren started looking for somewhere to overnight and P4N suggested a parking area a little way off the autobahn next to a lake at Neumunster, although there were plenty of other places available. TomTom guided us unerringly to a lovely little waterside gravel carpark, serving a couple of beaches, a cafe, canoe club and mini-marina. Being a nice hot day the locals were out in force but there was still plenty of room so we joined another motorhome, parking as carefully as we could so as not to take up too much room, as did several other vans. But not so a caravan tugger, who shouldn't have been here anyway, quite unnecessarily taking up four spaces with his large unit. It's folk like this who give our community a poor reputation, resulting in more and more prohibitions. (Rant over, puts away soap box.)
The weather forecast for the next couple of days is hot, over 35C, with wall-to-wall sunshine. We're a little tempted to stay over but there really isn't room enough to spread out and, from talking to the first motorhomer, it gets very noisy with children - not that we object to the sound of kids playing happily of course. So we'll move on but again won't rush.
Looks nice
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