The bus trip from Marburg to Usedom Island in the Baltic Sea might have taken 10 hours but it went much faster than expected with lots of breaks for the driver.
Points of interest on the way: the huge canal systems linking Germany - we crossed the Mittellandcanal which connects the Elbe River (in the east) with the Ems near Munster and flows out to the North Sea on the Dutch-German border, and the Havel canal which connects the Oder River (Polish border) to the Elbe R which flows out at Hamburg and the North Sea. We stopped for a break at Marienborn which is the old border control between East & West Germany, with all the old buildings and towers still there as a monument.
Other points: revolving toilet seats for cleaning, lots of windmills (some Vespa) but most not turning at all, huge banks of solar panels in the fields, very fast cars on the autobahn, very few animals but lots of crops, our first flies, the sameness of the countryside but very, very flat round Berlin with lots of little lakes left over from the ice age.
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