On a day where Russia has blown the Kachovka dam on the Dniepr river – a war crime visible from space – it seems somewhat flip to be posting pictures of our peregrination around Germany, as of yesterday exactly half way through our planned 12 weeks on the road.

But life goes on, as do we, and today I’m just going to include some representative images of our journey these last three days from Potsdam through Magdeburg on the Elbe to Quedlinburg at the threshold of the Harz mountains.

The pictures will speak for themselves, with the challenge to notice the difference between those taken in the summer of 1978 when we first travelled these roads on Daisy 1 from our home base then in East Berlin with Reuters.

We weren’t even 30, for heaven’s sake, how cute.

Then
And now
Stolberg Harz. Always in fraternal union with the Soviet Union.
Quedlinburg town centre today
We’re a lot better at camping than we were.
Kroppenstedt
Poppy time
Germans on the whole have less obesity than in the UK. But not everyone. Brandenburg aquatic leisure.
Magdeburg famous for Guericke’s proof of atmospheric pressure, with his hemispheres.
Full set of bells, ancient and recast, for Magdeburg cathedral
Elde-Spree canal. Lovely riding.
Atop the Harz mountains 45 years ago.
Old GDR Magdeburg
Windmills playful and old on Werder Island.
Wind power ancient and modern

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