Day 2: Heading out to Gerswalde: 12 July 2018

After helping the folks check out from their apartment and putting them into the transport to Gut Sukow, we drove to our lodging in Schloss Herrenstein. 

I rented the car from Enterprise since I'm used to renting their cars in the US and they are pretty good. They even gave me a free upgrade. I had originally rented a standard golf (I preferred to drive a small car especially in the busy streets of Berlin) but they gave me a fully kitted out Seat Ateca (which is actually a VW Tiguan) instead. That was a blessing in disguise as the 4WD and the 2L engine really made a difference on the hour+ drive on the autobahn from Berlin to Gerswalde.

The 4WD made the biggest difference when I was pulling into little side lanes and hunter trails trying to get better photographs of the amazing scenery.

Everything was so green, so empty, so open, so beautiful.

I forgot to mention, the sun rises at 4.30am and sets at 9.30pm...

Seat Ataca. Essentially a VW Tiguan. Really nice car though.

Wildlflowers

Having a car helped, I could stop anywhere and photograph anything

Sunset...at 10pm

Day 3: Gerswalde: 13 July 2018

Cousin put us at Schloss Herrenstein, about 10mins by car away from the actual wedding location. I would have preferred staying at the actual location (so that I can drink), but the place was prioritized for the senior folk and families with kids. 

Turns out, that 10min drive usually took 30mins or more because I would stop and take photographs along the way. The landscape was truly beautiful. Huge swaths of wheat fields with nary a house in sight. (I later found out that this was because this was actually a poor part of Germany and the land was not very fertile for farming)

Road leading to the Schloss. This was at 5am

Schloss Herrenstein

There's a heated indoor swimming pool in that building

Oh look, a pony

Oh look, Sheep.

Oh look, Horses

Oh Look, a Heron

This was taken at 9.30pm