Ferry Home

Today we woke up to cloudy, cold, and no snow! We turned up the heater…and it started making those noises again. Not as loud as the other day, but still something is not right. I’m glad we are almost home and this didn’t happen at the beginning of the trip!

We headed out to catch our ferry. Originally I had planned on driving back to Gedser and taking the same ferry home, but right before we left someone asked on one of my groups the best easy to get from Berlin to Oslo without flying and someone suggested the Gothenburg/Kiel overnight ferry. I looked it up and it actually would work way better for us. Gedser is another 5 hour drive, the boat would get in way earlier (9 instead of 11), and it was only another hour drive on the other side! So we would save 4 hours of driving and we would get home earlier which is great! So we looked at the rooms, and they are small, but have a nice big window so we decided to go for it (they technically are for 4 people with beds that fold down above ours, but that would be so small!). So off to Gothenburg!

I had so many things planned to stop and spy on depending on how much time we had…and we didn’t do anything except go to the grocery store! We started driving and it was so rainy and windy and awful weather. The wind was blowing us around on the road a little bit so that plus pouring rain = don’t want to go explore.

When we got to Gothenburg the weather was better, and I was going to wander around town a bit, but we could not find parking and there was construction everywhere and it was so stressful we just headed to the boat. We didn’t have a ton of time so it was fine, but I was sad we didn’t get a final walk somewhere!

We sat outside on deck until it got dark and now are hanging out in our room. Tomorrow just a short drive and we will be home! (Also just a note - the red thing in the second photo is a toilet at a rest stop!)Read more