Day 3: Dresden - Stalag Luft 3 - Prague

Start: Dresden
End: Prague
Distance: 250 miles approx

Today started with a challenge - walk old town Dresden and find a list of items from a list set by the organisers. We given photo clues across the 3 pages, and we both took it a bit too seriously.

After an hour in Dresden, we were setting off to Stalag Luft 3 in Poland - site of the great escape.

Dresden by the way was beautiful, much nicer than either of us had expected. Highly recommended as a destination, with some great architecture and a nice feel to the city.

Then we hit a problem - on starting the car we got a misfire and then the engine warning light on the dash. Not good. Panic stations, but a good few hard revs of the engine and it cleared itself - we're off, although today's driving will be a little more careful.

Getting out of Dresden was a breeze, and soon we were back on the motorways headed north east.

We seemed to stay in Germany longer than we'd expected, only being 25 miles from the pow camp site before entering Poland over a river. The change from Germany to Poland was obvious and quite dramatic, it was visibly much poorer straight away.

The roads in Poland are something everyone should experience, so that none of us can ever complain about British roads ever again. The main motorways are a patchwork of decaying tarmac, rattling the car constantly and not allowing anyone to safely go over 50mph. Our favourite part of this was the cobbled (not a typo) slip lane on and off the motorway, basically meaning 20mph was your approaching speed to the max limit roads.

Stalag Luft 3 was good to see, we arrived with several other rally goers, all parked together. First time the cars have all been well grouped since we left Koblenz. The museum was interesting, with many artefacts and good stories and explanations of the camp.

Having spent some time wandering, we headed on our way again, this time to the Czech Republic and Prague.

Sat nav gave us the usual daily fun if not recognising major arterial roads and leaving us to fend for ourselves and the most inopportune situations. After a couple of wrong turns, much to the amusement of the fellow crumballers following us, we hit a good motorway and made it to Prague at 5:30pm.

Tonight we have an apartment in the newer area of Prague, very busy and noisy! Not our favourite location of the trip, but we've got a bit more room for a change!

Few drinks in town with fellow crumballers, and ready for tomorrow!

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