22 Years of
Zappanale in Bad Doberan
5 Days of
Zappa Music and More
Tickets: www.zappanale.de
Zappanale Hotline: + 49 (0)38203 59 28 07
How to get to Bad Doberan from the UK
It’s pretty easy (and relatively cheap)
to get to the Zappanale from
For those that need ‘em, there are
coaches from London Victoria Coach Station to the airport that run every 10
minutes all through the night. The coach stops at various
This year we have booked a flight from
London Stansted
(STN) to Berlin-Schönefeld
International Airport (SXF) via www.ryanair.com. The sooner you book,
the cheaper it is – our return tickets cost us around £142 each this year. From
the airport, we’ll be jumping on a semi-commercial express bus (SXF1), which
runs every 20 minutes to Berlin-Südkreuz rail station (and avoids going into the city
centre); the bus fare is €6. From Südkreuz we’ll travel by train to Bad Doberan Bahnhof
(there are other Bad Doberans, so ensure you get to the one near Rostock). They
are local trains, so you cannot reserve seats. And you may have to change at
We – Zappanale ‘old hands’, Andrew and
Ian – usually return to Stansted late on the following Monday.
Regarding train tickets,
you should visit http://www.bahn.co.uk/db_uk/view/index.shtml
(a ‘Quer-Durchs-Land-Ticket’
is what you need; this will cost you about £32).
When you arrive at Bad Doberan
station, don’t jump straight onto ‘Molli’, the steam train that will take you
to the racecourse where the festival is held: instead, follow her track into
town, and check out the bust of FZ; buy your provisions at Lidl or Aldi (if you
are camping); then hop onto Molli at
one of the stops as she clanks through the town.
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