{"id":2797,"date":"2011-07-04T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T13:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2011-07-06T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T14:06:11","slug":"happy-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"Day 46, Monday, July 4 – Havelberg to Schnackenburg, Germany HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, America!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A note on Havelberg, that we neglected in yesterday’s post; it is the confluence of the Havel and Elbe Rivers.\u00a0 In fact, the over 1000 year old city, where we stayed is actually an island.<\/p>\n

For a couple of weeks, we have seen storks with huge nests perched on roof tops, but the pictures are always too far away.\u00a0 This may be cheating, \"\"<\/a>but it will give you a better idea of perspective of nest vs. rooftop.<\/p>\n

Today truly tested our joy of riding. \"\"<\/a>When we left at 9:30 it was drizzling and had not quite reached 60 degrees.\u00a0 Two miles in, as we waited for the ferry,\"\"<\/a> we could see the conditions were not going to improve.\u00a0 In fact, they worsened with rain and (still) wind. \"\"<\/a> 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 \"\"<\/a> and an opportunity to warm up and dry out a bit; just enough to keep us going.\u00a0 We had another downpour before town, but easily dropped from the dike \"\"<\/a> and pedaled into town and our bed and breakfast. \"\"<\/a> A most delicious bowl of hot soup (one tomatoecreme, one celerycreme) and all was right in the world!
\nSchnackenburg is yet another small and darling town, filled with a lot of history and a small museum\"\"<\/a>chocked full of history and memorabilia from WWII and the Soviet Union demarcation line on the other side of the Elbe River.\u00a0 A picture for Jim.\"\"<\/a>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.\u00a0 Plus hit 2000 miles today!!\n\t\t