There was a light drizzle when we woke this morning and though we were in a very nice hotel (with an incredible breakfast) in a very posh neighborhood, we were a couple miles from the center of the city and we’d already spent a day in a hotel room this week and were not quite ready to do it again.   So we left to similar conditions as yesterday, 51 degrees and a brisk wind, just no sun.  Without the sun, the temps did not warm.  With the slight drizzle on the way out of town, we did not do any touring as originally planned.  The ceiling seemed to lift about a half an hour out of town so we snapped a few pictures of the fields we were winding through.  Luckily, though the wind was still blowing at 25, it remained to our side and not directly in our face for most of the ride.  We definitely knew when we turned directly into it, as it stood us straight up.

We went through two or three sleepy little towns as if it was five o’clock in the morning……..guess nobody goes out in weather like this except riders, bikes and horses; we were definitely in horse country and actually saw a couple (horseback) riders facing the weather. Rode the dike top for several miles, offering us rooftop glimpses of the small villagesand another lock.Not sure if you can see, but the building on the left is the height of one canal and the water in the distance is what it drops to.

Saw the Elbe only twice today, once when we took the ferry to the other side and then as we approached Tangermünde when the winds had picked up to 40 mph…..a not so subtle hint the rain was not far behind.  But we managed to check in at 12:30 (after 50 miles) just before it got wicked.

We had hoped to tour this enchanting small town today, with a castle AND a church, but the weather is keeping us inside.