Junge, die Bäckerei – an unusual cludgie

We recently spent time in northern Germany and Poland, and so the next few postings will be recording cludgies from our travels.

The first is unusual only in that it is so very different to cludgies in similar locations in Scotland – because this one was essentially a motorway service station. It was the Pommerndreieck branch of the Junge bakery chain just off the A20 – Junge are present in towns and cities across northern Germany, and are pretty good. This particular branch happens to be near a branch of an American bad food outlet (that one with the Scottish name and the yellow M logo), and you’d want to go straight past that to the Junge bakery on the right!

The cludgie was clean, elegant, and normally unremarkable… but not at all what motorway service stations are like in Scotland, so worthy of a mention here.

Clean and functional…

… as all public cludgies should be, as a minimum

Good Craic Café, Inverness

This is a nice café in the centre of Inverness, with good coffee, interesting art on the walls, and friendly staff. The cludgies were decent, with nice tiles on the back wall.

Subtle grey tones for the cludgie.

The lobby area for the cludgies – take care not to go through the other door from the café, or you’ll be in the kitchen, expected to help the washing up!

River Ness Hotel, Inverness

A couple of years ago we stayed in a large, dodgy hotel in Inverness, but noticed the River Ness Hotel and thought if we were coming back, we should stay there. Well, we recently did just that.

It was definitely an improvement in every regard, and we’d recommend it; booked early enough, it was quite reasonably priced. Although a franchise, it appears to be run by a local family, which we liked.

The room’s cludgie was pretty good.

Pleasant colour scheme and patterns …

… with a design that felt quite spacious.