POTSDAM, GERMANY. Here's Ross, bringing you your regularly scheduled maps and churches update. Four days cycling along the Elbe river, and then the Havel – two nights of camping, one night in a hotel (in Rathenow) because we were just exhausted. Not much sightseeing, but I took many pictures of churches along the way. Instead of biking all the way to Potsdam on Friday, we took a small detour to Brandenburg an der Havel, and a longer route along the river (the more direct/efficient routes tend to be alongside highways – albeit with good cycle paths – and quite not as scenic, though they can be nicely wooded), and did the last ~40 km by train.
By the way, we are managing to visit an impressive number of German states (Bündeslander), though some (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxony-Anhalt) only quite briefly. Counting our stops in Düsseldorf (North Rhine-Westphalia), we've now been in seven of the sixteen, and Berlin tomorrow will make it eight.
Day 14 – Tuesday 7/10: Lüneburg to Neu Darchau (on the Elbe) – ~40k
Day 15 – Wednesday 8/10: to Cumlosen – 77 km
Day 16 – Thursday 9/10: to Rathenow, via Havelburg – 83 km
Day 17 – Friday 10/10: to Brandenburg an der Havel – 35k (train to Potsdam)
my new cockpit situation – finally got a handlebar bag/box thingy in Lüneburg, complete with map holder... but my headlight and bell were forced out onto the drops (makes for very easy bell access – i can ding it while riding without moving my hands from the hoods, and mute it with my other fingers)
Lüneburg then...
Dahlenburg
escaped flock blocking the path
this strange (but quite nice-seeming) hotel, in Wittenberge, where we stopped to beg for some internet, was in a repurposed warehouse complex (see below.) they were inexplicably playing the theme song from the last unicorn
Quitzöbel?
Havelburg Cathedral – an architectural palimpsest, and a seriously magnificent building (see below)
glad we're not doing it this way, but still, pretty cool!
delicious fishes
some nice detailing though...
how can you argue with a bagpiping donkey on the ceiling?
my new cockpit situation – finally got a handlebar bag/box thingy in Lüneburg, complete with map holder... but my headlight and bell were forced out onto the drops (makes for very easy bell access – i can ding it while riding without moving my hands from the hoods, and mute it with my other fingers)
St. Nikolai's in Lüneburg – really nice one!
Lüneburg then...
...and now
seems like this belongs on the Reeperbahn, no?
a common and always delightful sight
Hitzacker
Dömitz from across the bridge
the mistress of gleaning found some delicious treats here
Bälow
the view from the cafe (where we got "eis") adjecent to the Havelburg Dom
Romanesque reworked into Gothic
the cathedral as seen from the town below
many towns had these cute little picnic structures on the outskirts – we ate a snack here after learning that our intended route was impassible (and would require a massive detour) due to bridge construction
don't remember where this was...
waiting for the ferry in Kützkow to take us back across the Havel (to Pritzerbe)
Brandenburg an der Havel. the dude is apparently Roland.
not sure who this dude is
Brandeburg Cathedral – not as exciting
we were more into this somewhat smaller Gothic church – St. Katerina's – a little ways away
St. Peter und Paul Kirke in Potsdam...just okay
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