Alexander diary, 1917-1918 / Roy Alexander - Page 177
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[Page 177]
Mon. 15th Apl.
Three hours run through pine forests and sandy rye country brought us to our destination Furstenberg, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. We alighted at a very modern little station & a march of a few hundred yards brought us to the town – which consists of a picturesque yellow-brick church surrounded by a vast number of narrow, hilly, cobbled streets. Two locks provide a barge and tiny passage between the "Roblinsee & the lake at the other side of the town (Furstenberg is on the Havel, and the Havel consists of canals which connect up a number of the Mecklenburg and Prussian lakes, thus forming an important water highway.) The rounds all round the village are planted with Linden. (limes.) A march of a mile or so past a number of opulent looking villas and pensions and we came to a tennis court in a clearing among the pines.