Germany 2022 : 2022-09-16 : Barge: Eberswalde – Oranienburg – Berlin

Tip
Type Name Description Service Provider Cost Notes Actions
To Do Oranienburg $0.00
Activity
Type Name Description Service Provider Cost Kms To Date Total Notes Actions
Sight See Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp $0.00 The Sachsenhausen Memorial grounds and visitors’ information center is open daily from 8:30 closing at 18:00 from mid-March to mid-October. The museums and indoor exhibitions at the Sachsenhausen Memorial are open from 11:00 to 15:00.

Admission is free to the grounds and all exhibitions. A small charge applies for a map or audio guide.

Food and drink are not available inside the memorial site and the small café behind the museum directly at the entrance is not always open. Pick up a picnic lunch at the bakery outside the station or a supermarket en route to / from the memorial.

~ 2 hours from AirBnB back at Oranienburg
Tour Eberswalde – Oranienburg – Berlin bike tour, about 38 km
$0.00 In the morning shipping to Oranienburg. Sightseeing tip: the Baroque castle with its park, museum and orangery. Then the well-marked bike route will take you southwards through the Ruppin sea area to Berlin.


Trip Log

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It’s the last day of our tour today and we’ll be riding into Berlin. The forecast for Berlin is decent for today and then showers every day until we go home. We’ve been sooooo lucky with weather.

The ride today was very nice. A strong headwind at times, which we’ve had most days. I’ve been so happy to have the gps tracks for each day loaded into Maps.Me on my phone. There have been a few confusing points where I’ve been really grateful to be able to just check the route and know exactly where we are and where we need to be. At one point we ran into a handful of our tour mates. We had a heated discussion about which way to go. Brent and I wanted to follow the route as per the provided map and gps track. Some of the others consulted a woman in town and wanted to follow her advice. We wished each other luck and went our separate ways. We reconvened only about maybe 90 minutes later so both routes worked (although we think our way was superior because our 90 minutes included pizza and beer at the Yacht Harbour).
For our days in Berlin I looked up things to do. One of the things I found that I was really interested in seeing was the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. Then I saw how far out of town it is and took it off the table. Then I realized that it was right along our cycle route for today and put it back on the table. We weren’t able to spend a lot of time there because we had a fair distance to make on time for Farhhad Curfew, which is 5pm. But we saw some and it was interesting and distressing. Like Memento Park in Budapest, we’re happy that Europe does not try to erase or white wash these things, but rather, memorialize them and hope to learn from them. I think Canada has some catching up to do.
So as it turns out, the staff table we’ve been sitting at for our meals is the captain’s table. Tonight is the last night of our tour so it is the captain’s dinner. We are, by default, sitting at the captain’s table. Three other people won a raffle to sit at the captain’s table but we’re there because we’re the loser English speakers that didn’t fit at any other table. So. Yay us!! We had a great dinner with the captain and the two Rainers (the tour guide and his assistant).


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