June 29 - Hamburg to Lutjenburg

Another beautiful morning to ride.  We convoyed out of Hamburg, which took longer than expected.  We kept getting separated by traffic lights necessitating waits to catch up, some navigational miscues and a flat tire.  But we made it eventually.

This was cute.  See the little tiny girl in front of the man in the white shirt.  She inserted herself into the front of our line and wasn't going to let any cyclist pass her!  She was just pounding away on her push scooter.  That's her mother on the left.

We see very young kids out cycling on tiny bikes.  They're learning at a young age and don't seem to have a fear of bicycle traffic.





Once out of the city we had beautiful farmland to cycle through.  It is a bit more rolling now, not dead flat.  We have been seeing ripening grain crops (wheat, barley?) and a lot of corn.

Most of our route is on cycle paths parallel to the road.  Some are very smooth, some not so much with roots pushing up the pavement.

We managed to find a small bakery for a mid morning coffee & goody stop.  

Lunch roughly half way along in a nice shady spot beside the road.

This picture is after lunch and is of the Grosser Ploner See, a large lake.   Lots of wind kicking up waves.  This looks to be vacation cottage type country with lots of lakefront and resorts.  Still a lot of farms on the non-lake side of the road.


I spotted this barn just past the lake.  The left gable window and underneath the two dormers are what appear to be wire cages, but no  window glass.  Balconies for free range chickens, perhaps?











It's a bit calmer near the north end of the lake.  All in all, a very pleasant ride.












 We're in the quiet town of Lutjenburg, staying at the Hotel Lutje Burg.  Nice town, but quiet, which isn't a bad thing.  (Good beer as always)

Here's the main square

A building just off the square.  This is typical style for brick; there is a lot of stucco around as well.

Here's the view from the hotel room next to me.  Crowded looking back there.  Note the laundry.  Sue (her room) bought some strawberries from a street vendor outside the hotel.. To die for!






Since I'm a little thin on pictures tonight, here's a map of where we are.  We are at the blue dot roughly in the middle.  The Grosser Ploner See is near the bottom left (look for the town of Plon).  Tomorrow we cycle to Puttgarden, take a 45 minute ferry ride to Denmark and then a short 27 km ride to Sakskobing in Denmark.

This map has a larger scale, to show our position relative to Hamburg.  Rodby is in Denmark.