Today we continued along the Weser river cycle route, watching the river slowly swell and grow larger. We enjoying seeing small towns at regular intervals, and occasionally a ruined castle or old tower up on a hill.

  

A lot of the ride was through ripe wheat or corn fields alongside the river.

We also had the occasional up and downhill through forested areas. This must be one of the steepest slopes our whole trip (25%) – we had to push, thank goodness it was not very long.

We noticed there were very few canoes or any other boats on the river today, but quite a large number of touring bicycles.

We wanted to stop for a juice and ice cream at a supermarket in Holzminden, but we became separated from each other twice and spent a long time finding each other again. Eventually we rode on a little frustrated.

We reached Bodenwerder at around 3pm and arranged our accommodation through the tourist information (we have huge rooms, very beautifully decorated, but with no wifi).

We explored the town and enjoyed a beer at a beer garden on the river bank before doing some shopping.

Bodenwerder is the home of Baron Munchausen (18^th century), known to be a teller of tall tales. There are a number of entertaining statues all around the town depicting some of his stories.

           

                           

For our dinner we had a picnic supper on the riverbank – after having to move downriver from our original spot because of pesky wasps.