Two of my friends were celebrating their wedding in a holiday resort at Germany's Baltic coast, Grömitz. I decided to take the opportunity to experience some places I didn't know yet by bike, as for example Mecklenburg's lake district.
I left at just before 10 in the morning taking a slightly clumsy route to Spandau via Tegel, leaving Berlin to the north-west. I passed through Schönwalde-Siedlung and Schönwalde-Dorf, a familiar route part of the Havelland cycle way. I stopped for breakfast in the appropriately named town of Pausin.
I also stocked up on some snacks in the corner store opposite.
At Paaren im Glien I left the Havelland cycle way and continued on towards Neuruppin.
I cycled along a tree-lined avenue that had been awarded »avenue of the year« by BUND, a large German environmental organisation.
I was also very impressed by the steel structure of a near-disused bridge near Linumhorst.
On the way into Neuruppin I noticed a repetitive rubbing noise from the direction of my front wheel. Upon inspection I found out that my front rim had torn and needed to be replaced.
Luckily a bike shop was ideally located next to my route, so I bought a new front wheel (including hub dyno) and fitted it.
After an hour's break I was on my way again with my shiny new front wheel.
I passed by two impressive palaces in Neuruppin.
A little bit outside Neuruppin I stopped for 30 minutes to have lunch.
The landscape was undulating and quite pretty. In the late afternoon I spotted some storks between cows on a paddock near Buschhof.
By 6 o'clock I reached the border between Brandenburg and Mecklenburg after a little over 120km of cycling. I camped near the village of Sewekow surrounded by lakes, heralding my arrival in the lake district.
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