Saturday, 19 April 2014

Wilsickow to Ahlbeck via ferry

We left Wilsickow at 9.30 and crossed the border into Mecklenburg 20 minutes later just before crossing A20 autobahn.

Our immigration to Mecklenburg and our crossing it quickly were Sandra's favourite events of the day.

At 11.20 we reached Torgelow where we stopped for one hour.

Attracted by the name we went through Torgelow-Holländerei in honour of our Dutch travel companion Sylvia, but found precisely nothing Dutch except for a couple of garden windmills. Very German was the large number of extremist right-wing election posters that were plastered all over rural Brandenburg and Mecklenburg.

With considerable headwind we arrived at the harbour in Ueckermünde just before 2 o'clock after 42km. We had some fish sandwiches while waiting for our 2.50 ferry across the to the island of Usedom.

Ueckermünde's harbour is linked with a canal which was Philipp's favourite part of today's ride. Cati's favourite event of the day was sleeping on the ferry crossing, while Joachim liked the wind on the ferry best.

At 4.15 we arrived at Kamminke and attacked the last part of our ride, crossing the surprisingly hilly island from Kamminke in the south to the town of Ahlbeck in the north where we were going to spend the remaining two days of Easter.

We arrived after 70 minutes and 14km, bringing our total up to 56km for today.

Once in Ahlbeck, we did some shopping and then spent about 50 minutes looking for a holiday home that was still available, could accomodate all five of us, and cheap enough.

The one we finally settled on even featured a Satanic satellite dish.

We had dinner at »Fischer's Fritz« and went looking for an Easter bonfire, but found out it will only happen tomorrow. Instead three of us joined some people having a small fire on the beach while Cati and Sylvie went home.

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