EV6 day 26

Slept really badly last night- I have a terrible sore throat and feel really rough. Luckily weather is good today again as I have another 100km day. I decide that I am going to take it really slowly and make the distance as easily as I can.
The day starts with the traditional birdsong from the cuckoo population. Passepartout likes to tell me that is because they are telling me what I am – cuckoo to be doing this.
The day starts off pretty well. Track surface is rough but flat, I pace myself slowly and I feel ok- just have a barbed wire throat!

I came upon this is a fairly remote rural location. Sad little memorial but someone keeps it tidy and leaves flowers.

First half of the day sails by and I don’t feel too bad. Then of course the rolling hills start. It is a bank holiday weekend in Germany. We are in a rural area. It seems that every village is having its own event. There are loads of old tractors, motor bikes, steam engines around heading for various functions. Most of the local young farmers will feel rough in the morning. There are groups of the in trailers being towed behind tractors and they have got the drinking started early! 😳😂🍺🍺🍺

We do pass some interesting sights. Another airfield sneaked in where you would not expect to find it. Look carefully.

Every picture tells a story!

Eventually the day is done. 7 hours and I don’t feel too bad. I do need to get some rest and shake this off though. We decide that I will get a local hotel and get as much decent sleep as I can. Passepartout has a campsite by a lake where he can get a swim. I find the nearest hotel to the route is the hotel Zum Fliegerwirt, 2 kms up at the local airfield. It’s fantastic! Right on a small airstrip where there are Robinson training helicopters, light aircraft, powered gliders, and two gyrocopters – Little Nellies from James Bonds’s You Only Live Twice ( look that one up as well youths). I get food at the Cockpit Restaurant on the airfield. It has a terrace immediately adjacent to the taxiway and about 50m away. The airfield has plenty of comings and goings and I get a close grandstand view.

How about this?