We stayed last night near a water tower in Strehla, Pension zur Nixe, a good pension with a pleasant host and two washing lines. When we first arrived we hung our washing on the outside line. When we went out for our evening meal, to the Lindenhof restaurant, we wisely moved our washing to an undercover line.
We shared a table with a young Finnish women and had a wide ranging and interesting conversation. It started to rain during the meal and most people went back inside. We stayed outside and it poured down. The waitress eventually tired of bringing our food out in the rain so when the Finnish girl left we went inside for coffee and dessert.
A pleasant evening, with a good meal, and the rain had eased by the time we left the restaurant.
Todays walk was nearly all on small roads and we only saw the Elbe once. At one time we were surrounded by acres and acres of sweet corn. Lots of cyclists on the track. It was cool to start with but after small shower it heated up and Shiel and I both got blisters. I had made the mistake of wearing one pair of thinnish socks.
We never passed an open beer house or restaurant all day! For the first time I used almost all my pack supply of water.
We arrived in Belgern, after an uphill climb through the town, tired after our 7:45 hour walk to be greeted with the news in our Pension that we had been 'bumped'. They'd taken in someone else in our place. A problem, I think, of having booked early from New Zealand. (My German is not very good and I didn't get the whole story.) However the landlady had at least booked us into another pension - Fam. Kuntzsch.
This was a blessing in disguise. It was a great place! We had a very interesting evening with them, drinking sekt and beer, sitting in the garden with their black and white cat and their friendly dachshund Trixie.
A beautiful ending to what had been a very tiring day. We had walked about 27.6 km.
Earlier we had had a good evening meal in a restaurant nearby, Zur Alten Braueri,recommended by Herr Kuntzsch.
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