70.6 miles
After a dry night we were packed up and away by 07.45 (yet again we needed to make up time, I'll tell Derek later). Made good progress to Oldenburg. Having successfully navigated us into Oldenburg, Derek continued to lead us out again only to be overuled by me. I didn't admit I was wrong until Derek noticed we were heading due north. I thought I saw a thin smug smile on his face. The route was corrected by diverting through Wusting where redemption was at hand as we stumbled on a Bakkerei. Three km after Wusting Derek's world imploded as he suddenly realised he no longer had his hearing aid. (Before leaving the bakery he had put sun cream on and taken the hearing aid out carefully placing it on top of his saddlebag). Slowly and gloomily we retraced our route, searching, but to no avail. We were just giving it up as a bad job when he noticed it in the middle of the road. With no thought to his own safety he threw himself in front of oncoming traffic to rescue it. Miraculously it still worked.
After all this excitement we soldiered on into the centre of Bremen for lunch (45 miles). We revisited the Dom Square before moving on.
We now followed the Bremen to Hamburg Radweg with a more detailed route map. Temperature soared as we made excellent progress with, for the first time, the wind behind. An ice cream stop at Fischerhude was most welcome.
Our final ten miles took us to our present campsite at Wilstedt. The usual routine quickly saw the tents up, us showered and then sampling the beer of the day. (Haake Beck).
Good to see you are both having such fun. Derek always seems happy, but the he appears to like 2 ice creams, 2 beers and too long for lunch.
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