Hellers Krug Hotel on the outskirts of Holzminden is a family run business with a very successful restaurant. We highly recommend this place for the great breakfast and wonderful staff who are so accommodating and make you feel welcome.
Here we are with Carsten in front of his hotel, Hellers Krug in Holzminden.
As we were leaving, we were talking to the proprietor of the hotel about the tall antennae which had been installed behind the hotel. We discovered that he is an avid ham radio operator who prefers using Morse code, like our friend Georg. In fact, he told us with a rueful laugh that he even took his portable radio on his honeymoon. He also told us an amazing story about a Danish fellow, who had stayed at the hotel and travelled around the world on bike...and you guessed it, the fellow was also a ham radio operator. We will share the link to this fellows’s journal online when Carsten send it to us.
We really enjoyed the incredible breakfast buffet complete with eggs, sausages, smoked salmon and the selection of cheeses and meats, as well as Bircher Museli.
One of the interesting exhibits in the Museum showed customs, furnishings and styles of dress of the area. In the period pre1920’s, poverty in the region meant that most women in the region got married in a black dress with the luxurious addition of a white veil. A practical solution as a black dress has many uses whereas white would be for one occasion only.
As it is Sunday, and our tradition in Germany has been to ride to Garcia’s with Georg and Cora, we felt the need to get in from the cold andenjoy a yummy torte with a Cafe Creme at the bakery.
This torte’s for you Steve and Dodie! Encased in chocolate ganache with a layer of marzipan, layers of cake with buttercream and a layer of cherries that had been soaked in Kirsch. Wow..
We turned down a narrow gravel road and were puzzled to see this interesting row of sandstone pieces from Cathedrals around Europe. We assume that the sandstone must originate in this area.
Rolling hills gave us incredible vistas to enjoy and we went through several villages, some of which offer well preserved medieval buildings and historical connections.
Very happy chickens in their free range portable enclosure.
Well, this is interesting. This stretch of road is an experiment. There are testing the method we have seen in Holland of adding red cycle lanes on the side of the road with a single lane for cars. This is useful when the space doesn’t allow for separate space for bikes.
Very interesting to see the route that we are following for the next few months. It is a bit daunting to see how far we have to go but excited as well. If we stick to the route we have planned, we will not go to Kalinigrad and will circle around to Vilnius in Lithuania and then head west to the Coronian spit adjacent to Kalinigrad.
The area ahead for the next 20 km is quite expensive, so we chose to stop a bit early at Hotel Niedersaschen, a few km out of Einbeck in Kuventhal. This Hotel Garni is meticulous and well reviewed. They offer the famous Einbeck beer on the honour system from a frig in the breakfast room We have been quite tired lately and Barry is having trouble with his back, so it will be good to have an early night and get back on track tomorrow with higher mileage, if we can.
Einbeck is known for their beer. We celebrate a good ending of our day in our room
