Schnakenbek

This was the pension Marius found for us last night. Breakfast wasn’t until 8.30 but since we’ve decided today will be a rest day and we’re only going 35km, we had a nice sleep in.

It’s Sunday morning and as usual ,nothing is open except bakeries.

We could hear the brass band all over town it was so quiet. They were playing ‘Morning has Broken’ and right on the last note the bells started ringing. LOUD AND LONG ! That shut them up

I never realised that snakes guts came in little sausages

And what nicer way to pass a rest day than to watch someone haymaking while our washing dried

We were commenting on this lovely old house when up popped the owners from behind the hedge. “ it’s a 1650 house that my Grandfather shifted here from Bleckede “. He said. I was intrigued so we chatted for a while as you do. His grandfather totally dismantled it, brick by brick , timber by timber, numbered everything, then reassembled it here. 20km away. This couple are physiotherapists from Hamberg and this is now their holiday home.

Crossing into Lauenburg on the old bridge. It’s now only used for bikers and walkers. Lauenburg was the northern point on the river where east Germany met the west. From here the border followed the Lubeck canal north to the Baltic Sea .