Burgwedel-Alfeld

The night noise

This time the nighttime noise was the crowing and bickering of the magpies in the tree next door. The morning chirping is different.

The morning - the day

We had a small breakfast: the two slices of bread that we were able to take with us from Frida at the lake the evening before went perfectly with the last two slices of cheese in our luggage.

First we went to Hanover, crossed the Mittelland Canal, and then got the new bike bags for Maria from Globetrotter. The only thing in stock in the right size was the Globetrotter model from Ortlieb, but that was better than nothing. We planned to assemble the new bags in the evening, so we strapped them onto the luggage rack first.

We had a wonderful route through the Leine valley, especially the part in the Alte Leine area in the south-west of Hanover.

Shortly before Alfeld, the second front bag on Maria's bike burst. The spontaneous assembly of the new panniers failed for two reasons. Firstly, the Globetrotter edition of the Ortlieb bags can only be assembled with a 3mm hexagon socket, and secondly, the multi-function tool was not easy to find (at all) after adjusting the steering head bearing. What a bummer! So we distributed the contents of the burst bag among the remaining panniers and continued on to our destination.

The Greek restaurant provided relief from the suffering: a small pot of ouzo on the house with the meal.