19·6 miles today: https://cyclemeter.com/3432aa395de1d505/Cycle-20220813-1035-77105. Cumulative cycling: 133·4 miles

What Elly said, with the addition that I slept for two hours when we got to the hotel. We then staggered to Kim and Kim for dinner. (You can see into it through glass doors in our hotel corridor but need to go out of the hotel to get there: Rauchenpause!) It’s cooler now, but still too hot to go under the duvet.

My legs are doing far better than I feared, but not as well as I’d hoped. However my arse is the main casualty stopping me doing the 35 to 40 miles per day we’d have needed to average. (Then factor in places to stay!) So tomorrow, we **hope** we can cycle to Leer, then get a train to Hamburg. It seems that there are plenty of trains but no bike spaces until late in the day. Ach wie schade!

We can faintly hear a Rammstein tribute band from the room. Here’s info on the gig: https://www.noz.de/lokales/papenburg/artikel/rammstein-coverband-voelkerball-spielt-im-stadtpark-in-papenburg-42717349/amp. I think I need to join CAMRA: campaign for real Rammstein!