I needed to clear my head in some real nature, so took the S-Bahn from Anhalter Bahnhof to Hennigsdorf and from there RE6 to Neuruppin. I should have planned it better and not done a loop, because most of the way back to Neuruppin was on a road, because of the usual scandal in so many places in Berlin and Brandenburg: No public access to the shore. I know I am starting to sound like a broken record but I just find that unbelievable.
But Neuruppin itself was a pleasant surprise, very clean and with many old, recently restored houses. Perhaps a bit too picturesque for my taste, but lovely for a short visit. And there are several Vietnamese restaurants there :-). I of course had a late-ish lunch in one of them before heading back to Berlin.
Links to some of the venues depicted:
Soviet War Cemetery (not yet vandalised …..)
Jahnbad Neuruppin (Having grown up swimming in the sea in summer and in swimming pools in winter, I cannot for the life of me understand how people can bring themselves to bathe and swim in freshwater lakes with muddy bottoms – ew!)
Alt-Ruppin from across the water
Hotel Hubertus – apparently being converted into flats
Sneaking in a diptych – just one this time:
