The landlady at Kastanienhof gave us a good breakfast with extra cheese after we said we didn't want any cooked meats. I like salami but I'm not keen to ingest all the nitrates/ites.
By the way I forgot to mention that the Monty Python team would really like a German breakfast, you get lots of spam, spam, spam, spam, SPAM.
It was a nice shady start to our walk today with a 3km walk to Schutzberg along a tree lined road. However from there to Gorsdorf the sun blazed down and it was a bit too hot for pleasant walking. We did see the odd stork on a roof top and a deer playing havoc in a field of corn, making its own crop circles.
.We did a sock removal and powdered our feet outside Gorsdorf and then headed for Listerfehrda where we stopped at a pub for a Becks alcohol frei for me and a large orange juice (0.5litre) for Frau Barr.
Refreshed we headed along a cycle way by the main road into Elster. It clouded over for a short time which made things much easier. We stopped for iced coffee and iced chocolate in Elster and I have to say the iced chocolate I was given was one of the best I've ever tasted. So good I had a second when Shiel ordered a coffee.
We then walked on to our pension, Hiob, where we showered and did our washing. The landlady kindly put out a washing line for us.
On going out for our evening meal we were asked by a couple of cyclists if we could recommend a place to get accommodation and a good restaurant. I was able to suggest a hotel as we'd passed one on the way in near the ferry.
We went towards the ferry ourselves and found the same hotel we had suggested also had a restaurant which did quite a good meal. It was a beautiful spot overlooking the Elbe and the ferry and we both found it a beautiful ending to a tiring day.
The two chaps we suggested the hotel to also turned up to have a meal and came over to speak to us. They had taken 10 days to get to Elster from Hamburg, which must be pretty good going.
As it was a beautiful evening after leaving the restaurant we sat for a while on one of the many benches ovelooking the ferry. It may interest some of you to know the ferry today stopped running at 8pm.
Todays walk was short at only 12.6 km but because of the refreshment stops it took us about 5.5 hours! We also went a bit slowly as we didn't want to arrive too early at the pension.
One thing I have not mentioned so far are my many mosquito and midge bites. Because of the flooding and the warm weather mosquitoes have bred like, - LIKE FLIES!
However most of our pensions have had mosquito netting on at least one window in each room which you can thus leave open overnight.
Shown below are also one or two signs we saw which suggest our interpretation made yesterday may have been correct.
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