Potsdam – Audi

Clients arranging sports car rental in Potsdam tend to time it for the water, not the palace, saving Sanssouci itself for on foot. Potsdam was built as an idea before it was built as a city, Frederick the Great's vision of an enlightened, unhurried alternative to Berlin, and Sanssouci Palace still sits at the centre of that idea almost three hundred years later. Drive out past the Glienicke Bridge, the old Cold War crossing point once used for spy exchanges between East and West, and the route follows the Havel's chain of lakes west toward Werder, water on one side and pine forest on the other for kilometres at a stretch.

German precision translates cleanly in Potsdam. Rent or hire an Audi with Zeus Prestige and it arrives exactly as booked, ready for the Havel lakeside route past Glienicke Bridge.

The terraced vineyard steps leading up to the palace were designed for exactly one purpose, to let the king grow his own figs on Prussian soil, and the whole complex retains that particular mix of grandeur and eccentricity. Potsdam is surrounded by more lake than land in places, and the light off the water changes the whole character of the drive by the hour. It is, in the end, a city of gardens and water that happens to also contain some of the most theatrical architecture in Germany. Rent or hire a luxury car with Zeus Prestige and the Havel lakeside route past Glienicke is exactly the kind of drive that suits an unhurried pace.

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