Staying: Camping Thalkirchen – Berlin, Germany
Distance Travelled: 362.6 Miles
Song of the day: Riding Dirty – Charmillionaire
Police just love us. Really. I guess a dirty, 20 year old van with a GB sticker and blacked out windows must have them simply salivating since today we were pulled over by the police again.
This time we were on the autobahn rocketing along at our top speed of 100km. I’d noticed an official looking police-type van at the exit of one of the rest stops and quickly forgotten all about it. 15 minutes later, they were driving right behind us. After doing this for 4 or 5 minutes they pulled out to the next lane, then in front of us, and proceed to flash “Follow Me” from their back window. All this was a little disconcerting, especially when they pulled off the motorway and into a police courtyard a few hundred metres away.
It turned out they were customs police. From his line of questioning, they were looking for people smuggling large amounts of cigarettes from Poland. Clearly, not us. They checked our passports, then one of them proceeded to do an inspection of the van while the other stationed himself strategically next to Cam and chatted about the F1. Naturally not finding anything, we were free to go ten minutes later, wondering if there was anything we could do to avoid further encounters of this nature.
In comparison, the rest of the day was positively tame. Cam got stuck behind lots of German Army officers at Burger King. I drank lots of coffee. You know, the usual.
We managed to get to Berlin with barely a hitch (who knew there could be two exit 76’s?), and made the campsite by 5pm, a new record for a long distance drive of ours. Cam was not disappointed when we parked next to a number of German football fans who proceeded to watch the football on a TV sitting on their windowsill, and Cam could see the game from the comfort of the van. An excellent arrangement all around.
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