We wake up to a cool and windy day, showers and sun intermittently. I slept well and am very pleased with our new tent which gives us enough room to sleep comfortably.
Our camping ground is just behind the dike on the Weser River. We pack up and, since we have nothing in our panniers for breakfast, are at the ferry landing in a few minutes for the short crossing across the river.
The wind is blowing the way it does on the coast. It feels envigorating and I would love it if it weren't blowing in the wrong direction. On the other side of the Weser the landscape changes: more canals, dikes, wind, sheep, cows - the lowlands.
We have arrived in a landscape of dikes and sheep and wind.
The wind is tiring and twice we get caught in a downpour. We see no more camping grounds on our route and in our soggy state we aren't too sorry. We end up at the Gasthof Friesenrose for 76€ including breakfast, one of our more expensive hotels on this trip, but we have no choice. It doesn't look like there's going to be any accommodation down the road, either. The hotel is bran new and has been decorated in a mixed style of modified-traditional and flamboyant. It's very comfortable, even if they haven't gotten around to getting a wireless internet connection going yet.
We eat in a nearby restaurant, Restaurant Mühle, located in an old windmill. As with the hotel, I believe the restaurant is hoping for - and catering to the tastes of - a new wave of tourism in the area. This isn't the local pub where the locals stop by for a beer in the evening. We wouldn't have minded a simple pub, but there were none.
