Mecklenburg can be so beautiful – with Nadja Uhl and the Passat GTE Variant

“Actually, every summer,” is Nadja Uhl’s answer to the question of how often she sets off on camping trips. Taking part in sports, preferably surfing or climbing, and at the same time being in nature – “to this day, even now as a mother of two, it is still the most beautiful form of holiday for me. The region of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, located in northern Germany, with its many lakes, avenues and the Baltic Sea coast is her favorite place for this. “The Baltic Sea is sometimes rough, but always fascinating, the nature is beautiful,” says the actress, who was born in Stralsund. “I love Stralsund and Rügen. It's home for me.”

Going on holiday by car brings quality of life, says Nadja Uhl. Because “one is unattached, has no rhythm – and can slowly relax.” The 48-year-old has always driven a car “in which I can sleep. Since my youth I’ve either driven a station wagon or a T4 bus.” The Passat GTE Variant with roof tent is therefore the ideal holiday car: “For me, luggage space in the car is important. The Passat offers plenty of space.”

However, the new Passat GTE Variant has many other advantages. It drives up to 56 kilometers purely electrically (according to the WLTP cycle) – and on longer distances the electric motor supports the efficient TSI gasoline engine. The plug-in hybrid thus drives emission-free on shorter stages of the journey and is extremely economical on longer distances. Its electronic control of the hybrid drive helps it to do this – the e-propulsion drive and the combustion engine then work in unison together. With the interaction between the navigation system and the hybrid system, the Passat thus uses electrical energy efficiently to support the combustion engine.

“Any development that is progressive and makes sense in an overall view is close to my heart”.

Nadja Uhl

“For me, a luggage space in the car is important.
The Passat offers plenty of space.”

Nadja Uhl

If the sky darkens or the lighting conditions under the avenue of trees is tricky, driving in the Passat GTE Variant is still safe thanks to IQ.Light: the LED matrix headlights not only improve visibility – especially important at dusk when deer cross the road, for example. The IQ.Light also helps to avoid dazzling oncoming traffic.

The journey goes along the German Avenue Route (Deutschen Alleenstraße), past corn and poppy fields, tree after tree. The journey leads you through a canopy of green leaves – almost 3,000 kilometers long, Germany’s longest holiday route, stretching from the Baltic Sea to Lake Constance. A stop in Waren, for example, is worthwhile for a visit to the “Müritzeum”: the largest freshwater aquarium for native fish in Germany, housing 40 species. You can also relax in the garden at the Herrensee where accompanying children have plenty of room to play.

And there is even more to discover on this tour between trees and beaches, lakes and sea. “I think the west beach on the Darss is the most beautiful beach in the world,” enthuses Nadja Uhl. “The best way to get there is by bike, because it’s too far to walk.” She also loves Rügen but avoids the large swimming areas and the crowds: “I would always recommend heading for the stillness. For example, into the tree-lined avenues. It’s pure magic.”At the end point of the trip she recommends the opposite of the Müritzeum: “In Stralsund, as well as the Gothic brick, I love the Ozeaneum and the sea museum. My tip: Afterwards, enjoy a fish roll directly next to the canal behind, or over in Altefähr, at the harbor.”

But it is not only the nature and the impressive places that give the most beautiful memories of the camping road trip. It is “the people you meet,” Nadja Uhl believes. “You experience a different kind of Germany while camping.”