When we arrived at our B&B yesterday I saw a washing line in the garden and asked if we might make use of it. It was empty. We were told if we did our own washing in our room we would be charged an extra 2 euros! There was even a notice to that effect in our room. Contrast this with the women at Kloden who went into the house to bring out pegs and a plastic bowl when asked the same question. One place made us feel like a family guest the other like a source of money which must be sqeezed to the limit. It was a pity our enjoyment was marred in this way as the evening meal, with wine, was very good and of excellent value.
As there was not much else to reco mmend at Vockerode, but quite a bit at Woerlitz we would suggest stops for walkers at Wittenberg, Woerlitz and Dessau instead of Wittenberg, Coswig, Vockerode and Dessau.
It was raining just before 9am, when we normally leave, but a short wait was sufficient to see the shower pass. It was cool and cloudy and good walking weather but unfortuneately the route lay along the main road out of Vockerode.
For observant walkers there was a small path running beside the left had side of the road through woodland but as it had just been raining and the grass was wet we did most of the walk on the road to Waldersee passing over the A9 autobahn on the way. Joining a motorway in Germany is very tricky as they always seem to have very short lanes for filtering in.
Again plenty of water along the way with the associated mosquitoes. I acquired at least an extra ten bites overnight.
We passed a roadsign, an arrow, which had been affixed to a tree for so long that the tree had grown over it. We also passed a massive tree fungus, about 9" across, but I have to admit it is difficult to tell the scale from the photograph.
We entered Dessau by crossing the Elbe via an old railway bridge.
Having arrived early, before 12:00 noon, we searched out a bakery with coffee and cake. We then went back to the pension to raise the management by ringing a phone number written on the door. It seems to be a common practise in the Czech Republic and Germany. At least the guy came, as he said he would, in a couple of minutes.
He showed us our rooms and gave us instructions on what was worth seeing. Luckily he also gave us directions as some smart Alec appears to have rotated some of the signs near the railway station by 180.ยบ We first went to the University campus and the Bauhaus before visiting the Georgium, a schloss, which is undergoing extensive renovation. We then walked down to the town square and town hall before visiting an Italian restaurant for our evening meal.
You may have noticed Shiel and I have grown taller and lost quite a bit of weight. It was a very short walk today of just over 2.5 hours and 9.2km.
To discover who the last two men in the photographs are you may need to read up about The Threepenny Opera.
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