Main purpose: this photo tour with Go2Know.

After checking in to Park Hotel Fasanerie (in idyllic surroundings), walkabout in Neustrelitz, incuding the Tiergarten. The hotel is situated adjacent to a lake, or what looks like some kind of swampland, with lots of birds – long-tailed tits, cranes, woodpeckers and much more. Also, reportedly, lots of frogs and deer, but no beavers.

And while I am describing the hotel – a couple of my pet peeves when it comes to hotels in Germany: The internet is excruciatingly slow, or weak, or whatever the term is. And the restaurant emphasizes on imported rather than German wine.

Also, there were some very annoying, and quite loud, noises coming from what seemed like upstairs from my room, probably to do with the running of the hotel, sounding like furniture was being rearranged, as well as some protracted knocking, as with hammer and nails, even on Sunday evening, lasting from 6.00 each morning (including the weekend), so no alarm clock needed, till about 22.00 in the evening, which competely ruined my early-morning coffee and my evenings and the sense of peace and quiet you would normally expect in this kind of place.

Spotted pre-breakfast on 23 March:

Phototour 23 March with go2know to Domjüch:

Walking back to the hotel:

Day three – Sunday – the day after the photo tour with go2know: In the morning, with heavy rain forecast most of the day, I started to seriously reconsider my decision to stay an extra day. With plenty of opportunity to return to Berlin by train, and the extra hotel night non-refundable, I ventured out on the originally planned walkabout in Neustrelitz. Among other places, I went to the nearest lake to beat the slight boredom with some ICM photography, awaiting the “heavy rain”.

As it turned out, I was rewarded with only a little bit of rain, and a display of extreme sexual tension by a local greve couple in a rush to finish the renovation of their one-bedroom condo.