A note on Havelberg, that we neglected in yesterday’s post; it is the confluence of the Havel and Elbe Rivers.  In fact, the over 1000 year old city, where we stayed is actually an island.

For a couple of weeks, we have seen storks with huge nests perched on roof tops, but the pictures are always too far away.  This may be cheating, but it will give you a better idea of perspective of nest vs. rooftop.

Today truly tested our joy of riding. When we left at 9:30 it was drizzling and had not quite reached 60 degrees.  Two miles in, as we waited for the ferry, we could see the conditions were not going to improve.  In fact, they worsened with rain and (still) wind. About noon, when we had both gotten soaked through and started to consider an alternate/shorter end to the day, there was a lift in the rain and an opportunity to warm up and dry out a bit; just enough to keep us going.  We had another downpour before town, but easily dropped from the dike and pedaled into town and our bed and breakfast. A most delicious bowl of hot soup (one tomatoecreme, one celerycreme) and all was right in the world!
Schnackenburg is yet another small and darling town, filled with a lot of history and a small museumchocked full of history and memorabilia from WWII and the Soviet Union demarcation line on the other side of the Elbe River.  A picture for Jim.Can’t say we really enjoyed the ride today, but it was a great means to an end, another town to see and a good reason to eat delicious German food.  Plus hit 2000 miles today!!