Beelitz

Hitch up the trousers ,a last bit of advise,and away we go. The kitchen lady opened up the dining room at 7.00 for us as we wanted to get going. Usually open at 8.00The town centre will soon be full of vendors for the Wednesday market. I liked the trailers they use which fold out as stalls.said goodbye to Martin Luther then hit the road…Today we are turning north for Berlin after 12 days of going east. It’s fairly direct so we’ll stay on R1. Brilliant riding, 8kms of gently rolling metal tracks then 70 kms of flat hot mix surface.We pass into another province, a lot of the route today is through forests which is keeping us cool. (32 degrees today ! )I stopped to watch these huge beetles drag this half a snake across the pathComing through Grubo, .This area is called the Flaming nature park, not because of any flames but because it was settled by Flemish people . The architecture is distinctly Flemish and still has a lot of Flemish culture Bad Belzig. We rode up to the castle and had a look through. Baitz. The trailers have all been modified to be towed behind tractors now instead of 2 draught horses .Of course they would have had loose hay instead of bales on them.yes I know. Grazing again !A Flemish post mark giving distances to various places. Dated 1730Bruck-Ausbau. We’re starting to look for a bed for the night as we’re not sure of the village sizes ahead.Every so often there are information boards with maps and what there is to see in the towns along the way. We’re aiming for Beelitz Heilstatten .but all we saw there were huge huge buildings , run down now, that were once a tuberculosis asylum. Towards the end of the 1800s, 1 in 3 Germans were contacting TB and many dying from it. This place was where they would come for treatment. It was only another 5 kms into Beelitz proper so we headed there. Got onto ‘booking.com’ and found a cracker hotel in the town centre. Beelitz is world famous in Germany for growing Spargel. ( asparagus) and there’s symbols of it everywhere