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| Loading purple gravel from lorries at Bulstringen |
12.2º C overnight. Overcast and grey but dry when
we set off at 8.30 a.m. Rain started mid-morning, drizzle at first becoming
heavier later. We were in the lead all day. I did the chores and sat out on the
back half an hour later as we were going past the loading/unloading wharves at
Bülstringen. There were lots of boats on the quays and lots moving. As we left
the town we spotted a stork’s nest on top of an electricity pylon. By the town
bridge there was a new 50m length of mooring on the left and the old mooring on
the
right beyond the bridge was still there, as was the water tap in a locked
box, but now there was a sign to say that a key could be purchased from the
bakery. Glyn ‘phoned for an address to send us some post. We looked at the map and
judged that the middle of the next week would be ideal if he posted it today
and chose Haste near Wunstorf, far side of Hannover, to send it to. At 10.35
a.m. we passed the moorings at Calvorde where we would have moored yesterday
had it not rained. A
permanently moored cruiser was still there and so were
three more little day boats on the 50m mooring for sport boats, occupying about
half the available space. Fortuna, an 80m loaded with coils of wire, went past
Bill slowly, then speeded up to go past us! I took a photo of the deep
depression in the water around his bows. Transbode-6 went past, loaded with
coal, but there was a young man steering it (not sure if it was the same boat
as at Bydgoszcz) not the old chap who sold us some diesel. Listened to the news
on BFPS in English with reports of Londoners getting back to work
despite more
scares of terrorist bombs. They said that the Queen and Price Charles were to
visit the injured in hospital later in the day. Ate our lunch under the brolly
in pouring rain. Decided to give up for the day and tie up at Bergfriede. The
next mooring on, by a café at Rühen just beyond the old east-west border, had
been dug up last time we came through here and we weren’t sure it if had been
re-instated. It was 1.15 a.m. as we backed into the landward side of the metal
grid platform between the end two
dolphins in a long line of dolphins put there
for barge moorings. I made a cuppa and Mike went to check out the parking for
the car. Not much space available as there was a gang working on building a new
bridge across the canal. He couldn’t decide whether or not to move it on to our
next proposed mooring at the junction with the Elbe-Seiten-Kanal, above Sülfeld
locks. Bill wanted to stop for a couple of hours in Wolfsberg next day, but
might have to go back there in the car if the 12 hour moorings were full. Mike
went off around 3 p.m. to move the car and was back two hours
later. I helped
stow the moped back on the roof in the pouring rain. A couple were walking
their dog and stopped to chat, the man was very interested in where we’d been
and where we were going once he realised we could manage a little German. He
told Mike not to leave the car on the quay, the politzei have a habit of
driving down the cyclepath in 4x4s and the fine for having a car on WSA land is
15€! Mike moved it, but wasn’t happy with the rough parking, too many tracks of
big earth moving machines. Chicken Korma with rice and lentils for dinner. We
got the
Beeb! Well, most of the time. Good enough to watch the News! The
weather for mainland Europe was still more of the same, rain, rain, rain. It
was still raining when we went to bed.
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| Stork nest on top of power cables |
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| Boats moored at Calvorde |
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| Bows of passing 80m boat Fortuna |
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| Transbode-6 from Poland |
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| Moored at Begfriede |
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| Moored at Bergfiede in pouring rain. |
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