We were camped beside Lake Muritz at the back of a new admin block at the camping ground. Therre were ferry boats pyling the lake. Left about 8 am via Wesenberg, Priepert and Ravensbruck. The first 60ks was on sealed cycle ways through forest and farmland. A feature of the area seems to be carved tree stumps. We stopped for morning tea at a large pension, which was being beautifully renovated. A few quiet little villages to cycle through and it started raining around the middle of the day. Lunch was at a bakerei in a larger village, where we had cake and coffee. The lady serving was happy to see 10 wet and dirty cyclists come in!
In the afternoon it continued to rain and we had 30ks of mountain biking terrain to to cover -rather incongruous to the earlier beautifully paved tracks. It certainly shook up the bikes, and was rather muddy and slippery.
The region is full of lovely little villages, and there are thousands of lakes, many connected by a system of locks and canals. Unfortunately as it was raining it was not possible to take photographs
in the afternoon.
Just before our camp ground we went through the town of Ravensbruck, and after the town was the remains of the concentration camp which had been there during the war. It covered a large site and housed 140,000 people.
We were pleased to arrive at camp just after 4pm, though it was still raining. One group of three had to be collected from a restaurant about 30ks away as they were lost, the other three arrived in about 7pm. It certainly was a tough day of riding, and we were in our tent by 9pm.
The camp is right beside a lake, and there was a large group of people from Jutland (Denmark) staying there on a canoeing holiday. A family of ducks was in residence near our camp spot. As the sun was setting it was clair and a rather beautiful spot.
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John & Liz Pfahlert
P O Box 9740
Marion Square
Wellington 6141
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