… not on top of the World but in the attic of a guest house in Allershausen in Bavaria after a very busy day today.<\/p>\n
For a change I had quite a good sleep and didn’t go too far on my travels. Once more I was awake long before the alarm went off and I was soon in the shower once the alarm went off.<\/p>\n
While I was checking my mails and messages I was disturbed by the cleaner who was clearly trying to make me leave my room so I took the hint, packed and cleared off.<\/p>\n
It was a beautiful morning so I went for a walk for an hour or so around Memminghem. That’s a really nice town but the odour that was coming off the canal put me off my stride for a moment or two.<\/p>\n
On the way eastwards I came across a military cemetery. But it wasn’t what you might think. It had graves of French prisoners from 1870-1871, many nationalities including British from 1914-18 and then just about every nationality from 1939-45, including a couple of Romanian soldiers and several enormous mass graves of hundreds if not thousands of Russian prisoners.<\/p>\n
That leads me to think that there must have been a Prisoner-of-War camp here.<\/p>\n
There were also several hundred graves of German soldiers, so was there a hospital too? Or were they also prisoners?<\/p>\n
When I return home I’ll have my work cut out to track it all down.<\/p>\n
Rather later than usual I stopped off for lunch and I also fell asleep for half an hour. The heat was totally unbearable and there was no shade at all anywhere.<\/p>\n
But once I was back on the road I went to Dachau.<\/p>\n
When I’ve visited Hans in the past I’ve seen the signs for Dachau so I’ve come here a day early with the aim of coming to see the camp. They say “allow three hours for a visit” but at closing time I was still in the exhibition centre and hadn’t had tile to wander around the grounds.<\/p>\n
However I’m not meeting Hans until tomorrow afternoon so I’ll go again tomorrow morning to carry on where I left off.<\/p>\n
On the internet I found a place to stay. It’s all quite expensive here because I don’t want a dormitory or shared facilities ad I don’t want to be at the airport.<\/p>\n
First thing that I did when I arrived was to have a shower and wash my clothes. I was hot and smelly. And then I crashed out again for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
For tea I nibbled on something and then went for a walk. I found a couple of young girls lounging around in one of these rocking seats so as I went past I gave it a good rock<\/p>\n
It was a good idea to go for a walk when I did because the heavens have opened and we ae having a storm. Thunder, lightning and rain and probably plagues of locusts too. I’m not sure how I’m going to sleep with all this racket but I’ll try to do my bed.<\/p>\n
