June 3, 2011
Ovenstadt - Bucken: We survive hot, flat and windy
The landscape was flat but to compensate for the boring horizon we had wild flowers galore.
It's not that I insist on riding up and down hills all day long, but I find variety makes pedalling less tiring and a few hills are welcome. Besides, you get to coast down. Another disadvantage of flat landscape is that you tend to have more wind, as was the case today.
When we reached Schlüsselburg we had a look at its interesting barn quarter (Scheunenviertel). In the 17th century, due to lack of space in town or as protection against floods or fire, groups of barns were built outside of town to store farm tools, seed and stocked grain. Many of these interesting barns have been used up until modern times and the original construction preserved.
We stopped in Nienburg for lunch, a pretty town typically with much red brick.
In Bücken we found a room in Pension Rosengarten, a restored and converted traditional farmhouse. It had an immense garden out back and we were told we were welcome to use it. For our comfortable room overlooking the garden and a generous breakfast we paid 50 €.
Today's ride: 65 km (40 miles)
Total: 905 km (562 miles)
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