My landlord loves fishing  Just like all over Spain people here also play cards Old sheep barn, restored by the community flat country with many woods walking along the road is not safe Sometimes paths in the woods, muddy. Tosca can run free.  Sometimes quiet bycicle roads  Today 15 km along busy roads. Walks fast. Opportunity 

river Weser and me Dutch looking landscape, here along the Weser Many Christian inscriptions above the entrance Stable typical for this region Close up, always Christian inscriptions Lunch in a stable in the field. Protection against the storm No perfect isolation at lunch waiting in a conditorei till 5 pm when my Italian guesthouse would 

Wiehengebirge at hotel Wiehen-thermal Struckmeyer Traverse Wiehengebirge direction Hille Vista Wiehengebirge northward. Many wetlands, which includes storks wetlands, natural areas for grassland birds Oa white herons, storks That was a good night of sleep. Tosca kept real quiet tonight, tied to the radiator, which was turned off. She wants to jump on beds, chairs and 

cozy town of Bad Essen, even nice in the rain Whole center of Bad Essen all half timbered no sidewalk, so unpleasant walking. Fortunately no horse with me Constant rain. The cars splashing us wet Four stars restaurant for lunch

Rainy weather. I didn’t see the sun even once. Wind and rain in the back, fortunately. Saying goodbye to children Laurens and Felix, to Serge’s parents Gonny and Niek, whom I first had met in the South of France. Serge, again on his way to his job in Germany, dropped Mignon and me in Ibbenbüren. 

The bedroom of son Felix offered me a good night. It has frozen, but the sky was blue. Mignon and Felix offered me to stay a couple more nights at their place. I could then walk today without luggage, Hengelo, Oldenzaal to Bad Bentheim in Germany. Because Serge works near Germany’s Osnabruck, he can pick