July 16, 1988

From buch@n

We had to go back into the city to pick up my photos before we headed north. The day was filled with two things. Driving and rain. There was a stop for lunch and a stop during the afternoon at a concentration camp.

The camp was called Bergen-Belsen and during the war 50,000 Soviet soldiers and 30,000 Jes were murdered. One of them was Anne Frank. There are quite a lot of mass graves and each holds at leas 800 bodies. The place makes you think, makes you depressed and makes you horrified. I am very glad to have been able to see it. Up until that moment I don't believe I really knew how bad the war was. This sort of drove the point home and did it very hard. The Rambos of the world should see it.

Upon arriving at the Youth Hostel and finding it closed we decided to continue on to Denmark. We had tea in a roadside restaurant and shocked everybody by speaking Danish and English. There was a quick spot of shopping at the boarder (I bought 600g of Cadbury's chocolate) and a drive before we arrived home at 1.00 am tomorrow morning(?).

On the news we heard of a traffic jam between Munich and the Swiss border. It was 125km long. Doesn't worry us. Our holiday is over.

Reflections

^{Reflections about this day made on July 17, 2008.}

• I remember on the drive home about midnight two porsches that passed us like we were standing still on the freeway. We were going 140kph at the time.

Photos from July 16, 1988