Distance: 28.9km
Duration: 5h and 2.5h breaks
Weather: rain in the morning and over lunch, otherwise dry, cloudy with up to 21C
After very high temperatures on the previous day, I was longing for the rain. One of the downsides of this path is that there are many areas where you are fully exposed to the sun for hours when it’s hot. Therefore, I left the accommodation after breakfast, fully motivated for the long distance ahead. It was a great coincidence as I need lower temperatures to do a distance close to 30km. My pace was significantly higher with under 12min per km for nearly the entire trip. And I made less breaks as the recovery time was shorter.
At the beginning, it was a light rain and then turned stronger after a while. After about 45min into my walk, I was completely soaked despite rain jacket and rain trousers. Thankfully, it wasn’t cold, so I didn’t really mind. It soon stopped after that and the amazing advantage of functional wear is that it dries so quickly.
One major milestone was to go into Tangermünde for an early lunch and to look at the pretty city. I heard nice things about it and as Hanseatic and imperial city, it also had historical importance. I couldn’t spend too much time there though as I still had another 17km ahead of me. Thankfully, bakeries and restaurants were even open on a Sunday and I could warm up myself with a coffee and sit in the dry during the next rain over lunch.
The remaining part of the trip was through small villages without accommodation. There was a nice hotel in an old castle which I would have loved to stay at as it was the perfect distance but it was closed due to Corona. Therefore, I had to do the long trip to Arneburg. The last 4km were really tough as I got tired, the path went fully straight on concrete and I was eaten by mosquitoes.
The best thing though was that in the guesthouse itself, there was a pizza place that was open on Sunday night and the pizza was heavenly (the hunger surely also helped).
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