Following our practically yearly quota of 4 beers each last night we didn't sleep too well - hearts palpitating - Thomas is far more hardcore than us leighweights! But the amazing all-you-can-eat style breakfast at the hostel was a brilliant start to the day (those of you who thought we'd be losing weight on this trip think again - at this rate it's not going to happen!) - what could possibly go wrong today?
Well not too much actúally but bear with us. Earlier this morning (it is at this precise point that I beleive our overall luck began to change...) Hana spoke to the lady at the hostel about the ferry we were hoping to catch later on (to reach our planned destination of Bremmerhaven over the River Elba) and she'd assured us that the ferries were now only running in the mornings so we'd have to stay in Nordenham on this side of the river and catch the first ferry the following AM. Fair enough, it meant a shorter day and so far we hadn't had much luck trying to find a campsite in Bremmerhaven but there was one in Nordenham. We had a really good day's riding, enjoying the slight change in landscape, good signage all the way, good mapping from Hana, lots of friendly Germans along the way - great!
We arrived at the campsite at about 4pm and were kindly welcomed by the owner with a mixture of sign language, German and a sprinkling of English. He then went on to inform us, again with a kind of sign language, about tomorrow's weather finishing off his sign lanuage sentence by shouting, 'SHIT!!!!' and gesturing at the heavens! So, tomorrow there would be rain and lots of it apparently - bugger! The weather today has been lovely and not too cold and apart from our first few soggy days we've had hardly any rain - and I don't want any more...
60 miles today - good going yah!
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