Bombers and Bikes, Day 8. Brilon to Altenburg

After a really pleasant stay at a really good hotel, we left, once again, with the rain falling. 40 miles later, it was dry, as we parked up at the Eder Dam. The waterproofs came off and we took a walk across the dam and Phil took some photos. Whilst on the Dam, we were buzzed by an Apache helicopter. Clearly  a rooky pilot, as he was a long way above 60ft! 😁

Achtung! Apache.

Our next stop was just a few miles up the road, an upside down house! We parked up, took a few photos of the exterior, then decided we may as well take the €5 punt and take a look inside. It's quite clever the way they have everything that would be on the floor, fixed above your heads but it didn't really have the wow factor. It's not something you would spend a lot of time in. We were in it little more than 10 minutes.

Yes, it's upside down

Whose that on the upside down telly?

Our next stop was for fuel, 60 miles away. For the first time in days, the weather seemed to be on our side. From our fuel stop, we had about 85 miles till our next point of interest, a Dutch Windmill. Not sure why it is in Germany or why it doesn't look like any of the windmills we actually saw in Holland, but hey, it was worth a photo stop, though not open to the public. It took us a couple of goes to find it, Tomtom preferring a 4km round trip, than the 500m route it could have taken! As we rolled up, some yappy little dogs, well, yapped at us! More photos taken and back on the bikes, for our last stint of the day.

The Dutch Windmill

A little over 45 miles away was our hotel, in the town of Altenburg. It's hard what to make of the town. There are lots of obviously old buildings, but many of them are derelict or their facades are crumbling. As we pulled into the fairly large car park, we clocked 4 UK regos, taking up almost 4 car sized spaces, huge gaps between each bike. Inconsiderate knobs! A group of German bikers arrived a little after us and I could see they weren't impressed.

Checked in and refreshed, we looked for places to eat. Harder than it sounds, as there seemed to be little close by. In the end, we settled for the nearest, a chinese restaurant, about 100m away. With google translate on the menu, we made our choices, 2 mains, a rice dish, and a noodle one also. The owner/waiter didn't speak english, but was able to convey to us quite easily, that we didn't need the rice or noodles, as the mains came with rice and would be enough. He was right. Nice of him. He could have just brought it all, and we'd have had to pay whether we could finish it all or not. We washed it down with a couple of beers, before retiring to the hotel.

Tomorrow, we will be at the Sachsenring. It's only qualifying day but it'll give us a chance to suss everything out in a leisurely way, which should make things easier for the next two days. We are about 28 miles away, so shouldn't take too long. Forecast is dry, 18 degrees.