As it's a working day we stick to minor roads, sometimes cycling down the middle, where the only tarmac remains. Through beautiful oak and pine forests, interspersed with wavy grass meadows sprinkled with corn flowers. We pause in Kozuchow's cobbled town square where the shops are the usual, small, old fashioned, clothes and shoe shops. Dirty windows and lacklustre displays are not enhanced by peeling paintwork. The next village, Byton Odrzanski, is smarter with a square surrounded by historic, Dutch gabled houses and shops. The Poles use a lot of strong colours, with many houses painted green, red or pink.
Bikes are also often colourful, and local ladies favour a strong, unnatural, red as a hair colour. This reminds me that so many Danes have lovely natural red hair. Glogow is a bigger town on the Oder, of mainly reproduction Dutch gable town houses. We assume nearly everything, except part of the church and fine town hall, were flattened in WWII, (by the Forces fighting to and fro across the border that was the River Oder).
Miles to date 1968
Location:Zielona Gora to Glogow
