Sunday

Sunday The weather report said we might get rain today. Fortunately, it was very early in the morning while we were still in the hotel. After breakfast we took the bikes and headed for the boat that was going to take Us to Roebel. It was an hour and a half ride and several of us sat up on the top deck and enjoyed the fresh air and the scenery. Roebel looked like a nice little town but we really didn’t get to see any of it. We rode out of town to Bollewick, which has the largest field stone barn in Germany (Europe, the world?). We could have spared ourselves this trip. It’s basically a designer shopping center now. I can’t think of anyone who takes a bike trip to go shopping for large paintings and lingerie from Victoria’s secret. After looking around there for an hour, we headed back into Roebel and rode down the path to the other end of town. We stopped at a little place where we could get some fish sandwiches for lunch. There were smoking the fish right there! I had a very tasty bowl of fish soup. Then we got on our way again and were lucky to have mostly tailwinds. But there were still a couple of places where I pushed uphill. We rode on to Kline again where we got a close up of town he castle, then went on to that great sandy beach we had see two days ago. Of course I went wading. The water was really pleasant. We got back to the hotel at 4:30 and had to be ready again at 5:30 because we had to return the bikes before 6. Keep in mind that the Germans were playing their World Cup watch against Mexico at 5. We got the bikes back on time and then we all walked down to the harbor to walk around until 7, when we had a table reserved at our first restaurant. Every restaurant had a TV standing outside again. Germany lost 0-1 and we could to the restaurant in peace. I had another nice fish dinner and we sat for a long while and talked. I certainly didn’t feel as tired as I did the day before and all in all, it wasn’t a bad tour and the people were all pleasant. But it was more for people who don’t do long tours regularly.