Skop’nboer, Overdinkel Netherlands to Cloppenburg, Germany

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Skop’nboer to Cloppenburg

Skop’nboer to Cloppenburg

We have a slow start, planning our route and the places we might stop overnight. Servicing Hymer we leave Scop’nboer at Overdinkel enroute to Cloppenburg. Near de Lutte we cross into Germany joining A30, to Osnabrück where we join A1 to Cloppenburg. Here we park on the Agricultural Museum car park being able to stay overnight for free for those who have visit the museum. Arriving about 1.30pm we have lunch and then walk down to the entrance and pay our €12 each admission, this gives us unlimited time in the outdoor museum on that day. We spend the rest of the afternoon until closing time (6.00pm) walking round and exploring the 50 – 60 agricultural buildings.

There is every type of farmhouse with the unusual layout of barns combining living quarters for humans and animals; agricultural outbuildings, individual barns, tithing barns, stables, grain stores, carriage houses, bakeries attached to the various farm complexes. There are also windmills, industrial & rural workshops of every kind: forge, wheelwright, cobbler, village school, a church and, in fact every building that you might find in any rural setting and historic village dating back to the 1600s and forward to the early 20th century.

We return to Hymer sometime after 6.00pm and sit out on the car park with a glass of wine with, possibly a dozen other motorhomes who are staying overnight. Later we make stir-fry with the few sausage left from yesterday. We enjoy the light evenings, the sun not setting until almost 10.00pm.

Cloppenburg Museum images

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