The second leg is also done by car. After the worst showers have passed over, I hop on my bike about 3 o clock in the afternoon. The first few kilometers lead through a flat polder landscape similar to the Gelder Valley at home. I cross the Weser by ferry. The countryside becomes a bit hillier.
Fields alternate with woods.
Towards evening, after regularly taking cover in bus stop shelters, and with 97 kilometers behind me, I reach the camping ground in Bederkesa, where, quite dry, I set up the tent. At the campsite I meet 2 Belgians, who have been rained on for 2 weeks in Denmark, and now, somewhat disappointed, are on their way back home. A necessary visit to the local bike shop, because I lost my rainpants somewhere along the way. The castle is situated in Breitenberg, a small place in the vicinity of Itzehoe. You can tell from the local dialect that Schleswig-Holstein belonged to Denmark in the not too distant past.