Cycle Day 15 Schwedt am Oder to Joachimsthal

Our first full day in Germany and the cycling does not disappoint. Below is a photo of the cycle track along the Oder. For the whole day we are on beautiful surfaced tracks through fields and forests. We see deer and stoats in the woods. the wind is in our face so we do less km today. Isla also cycles over a piece of glass and punctures both tyres which loses us another hour.



There is also so much to see along the way, we stop and find out about them all. For example, what is this strange sign all about?



Well, it´s a bicycle church! Inside is a grand piano so we have a small concert. Other cyclists stop and play some Mozart. We are bemused as to what this Bicycle Church is all about - apparently there are services each year for bicycles.



We also see this humorous sign. Which one is each of us? Which one is you?!



Later in the evening we pass the former home of Franz Neumann, a famous German physicist. Here we also watch a wee stoat running around the field.



We stop at the small village of Joachimsthal and spend the night in a B&B. Many of these villages appear quite and somewhat deserted. We later learn that this part of the former East Germany has among the lowest population density in Germany due to many people leaving for the West in the years following re-unification.
Cycled 59.38km
Busking earnings - 0
2 punctures (one piece of glass in both of Isla´s tyres!)