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| Type | Name | Description | Service Provider | Cost | Notes | Actions |
| To Do | Gartz - LOVNP - Schwedt | 
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| Type | Name | Description | Service Provider | Cost | Kms | To Date | Total | Notes | Actions |
| Tour | Szczecin – Mescherin – Schwedt | bike tour, about 30 km
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$0.00 | In the morning you will sail from Szczecin to Mescherin. Biking past Gartz you will bike through a part of a unique, cross-border nature reserve, the “Lower Oder Valley National Park” before reaching Schwedt, today’s destination. | |||||
Trip Log
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| Frank and Bob, our swans that we met in Altefähr, keep showing up along our journey to say hi. Don’t try to tell me they’re different swans - this is MY story, and they are Frank and Bob. <3 | |
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Today we barge from Szczecin to Mescherin, then bike about 30km to Schwedt. Brent and I are both suffering quite a bit from the saddles on the provided bicycles. We’re going to try lowering the seats a bit to see if that helps.
I’m curious to know why we’re doing no cycling in Poland. We stayed on the boat from Wolgast (Germany) to Szczecin (Poland) and now we’re staying on the boat from Szczecin to Mescherin - just back over the border into Germany. We’ve heard that Poland has poor cycle infrastructure. Maybe it’s that? Or maybe it’s that the tour would require additional insurance for cycling in another country? Anyway. Just a curiosity. The ship had to provide a list of people who would be disembarking in Szczecin to look around. Since Poland is in Schengen, our guide doesn’t think it’s even legal for them to ask. Shrug. |
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| The ride today was nice. Relatively short, rural and uneventful. Moving our seats down helped considerably with the saddle pain. Things aren’t perfect but they’re at least tolerable. We got to Schwedt fairly early, had a look around and had some ice cream before meeting up with the boat. Many of the other passengers are talking with us now - some in English and some in German (limited by my small vocabulary, of course). |
Photos
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The Lounge on our Ship
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Moczyły
We passed by this tiny speck of a town on the river enroute to Mescherin -
Our boat
We crossed a bridge on our route today, and coincidentally, our boat was crossing under the bridge at the same time so we got a good look at it as it went by. -
Building in Schwedt
The side of this building is painted to look like a street. -
Statue in Schwedt
The man is holding up tobacco leaves. Tobacco used to be a big crop in the area. -
More dramatic clouds in Schwedt
I really like the dramatic clouds we’ve been getting the last couple of days.