Unsurfaced route...

We leave Jonas early in the morning as we have a challenging day's cycle, and he has to get to school early to prepare a Chemistry lesson. At 7am school grounds are already busy with pupils, and the rest are pedalling on their way. The Thursday market is setting up in the historic town square; refrigerated meat and cheese lorries parking, and a lady setting out her fresh herbs.
We are following a national cycle route south, west of the Oder River. Mostly unsurfaced tracks - the worst of sand, but cobbles or loose stone not much better. We do, however, meet a good number of other tourers, in small groups, including one pair of blokes on electric bikes with four panniers on each bike and a trailer each!
It is worth the difficult terrain, to ride along the dykes by lagoons where we see hundreds of cranes grazing, the first time we have seen them anywhere in such numbers.


The odd stork appears too. Just as we reach Pasewalk, after 65 hard miles, the sky darkens and for the first time this week there is rain - then a deluge. We dive into the only hotel and are soon ensconced in a huge room, the bikes locked in a store, watching tennis on the TV.


Miles to date 1728

Location:Wolgast to Pasewalke