Hamburgers in Hamburg -

Yesterday was Good Friday, so all of Germany heads for the hills on this national holiday. We had decided to cancel our crazy road trip to the Arctic Circle, so we are headed in that direction but not so far. We started off stopping near Stuttgart in Schorndorf, a small town with lots of Fachwerkhauser and their main fountain is decorated with eggs for Easter.

We drove north to Goslar. The countryside was really nice, with nice rolling hills. It looks like Kentucky, or the foothills of the Appalachians where I grew up. We stopped in Goslar, a former seat of the Holy Roman Empire. We also stopped near Hamburg at an artificial ski slope, 300 meters long. Amazing!

We found a good hamburger place in Hamburg, but we had just been forced to stop to eat dinner. When our crew gets hungry, you have to stop very soon or else...

BTW, I always wondered why they put Z rated tires on the Mercedes back home. Those tires are rated for 140 MPH sustained over an hour. Yesterday, we got the car up to 100 MPH sustained for a while on the empty Autobahn, so it is useful in some places.