Day 17_ From Berlin to Torgau

Day 17_  From Berlin to Torgau

 

We saw: that after Km 50 the "itch" starts

We ate: nothing worth mentioning at Herr Käte.

We pedaled: 71 Km

Our average speed: 20 Km/h

We slept: Central Hotel, Torgau

 

Ok, so after resting for 3 nights, we got back on our bikes and  started pedaling out of Berlin. We took the train from Berlin's Haupt Bahnhof to Lutherstadt-Wittenberg and continue pedaling from there. We pedaled and pedaled and today I confirmed that at Km 50, your ass (there is no other word for it) starts itching...you need to get up from pedaling and let it air, then you sit down again and so, you realize that it is not itching really, it is actually getting NUMB. So knowing this now, I will not get up tomorrow, I will just continue to pedal.

After pedaling for 60 Km, we arrived in Torgau. This town served as the meeting point for the Russians and the Americans towards the end of the second world war. The town seems quite dead to be a Saturday afternoon but we still had to discover its culinary qualities. Any boring town in Germany will serve you decent German food. We left our hotel (Central Hotel), with a reference from the reception girl where to eat well. Bad choice. It was some modern fusion German cuisine crossed with Thai ideas and very creative names for  the menu: "For the color"..(soups); "From the cheeses"..(meats) that did not match with the food you were supposed to order.

 

Unfortunately, we had no luck in Torgau. The hotel is ok, clean and the room has a big bed. To shower, you have to hold the shower in your hand but Mr. Boris the all-fixer, fixed it with some duct tape to the wall and we can have a normal shower…

 

The bicycle journey was beautiful though, the landscape is slowly changing into something else. The names of the towns sound more Polish and Czech the more we advance south.