E9: Greifswald-Eldena – Wolgast

Saturday, September 22: Fine but cold to begin with, increasing patchy cloud during the day and a couple of showers in the late afternoon

Hiking: 34.9 km

Pension am Peeneufer, Badstubenstr. 24, 17438 Wolgast, double as single with ensuite and breakfast, wifi (€49)

Up bright and early to have what little was being threatened for breakfast, and organise some stuff for along the track. Turned out there was more than the one slice of bread on offer, so all three could be had with jam, and the bread rolls occupied with cheese and sausage could be stashed away for lunch. There was OJ in addition to the coffee, and an egg as well. Had everything packed and ready to go – the host rather belatedly gave me my change from last night, and as I was leaving only the couple in the adjacent room were left to having their breakfast.

Went down to the supermarket in an attempt to redeem two of the soft drink bottles, to no avail, and bought a 1.5 L bottle of raspberry lemonade for a change. GPS tracker seemed to be working fine, except that the USB cover, which had thoroughly detached itself at the beginning of the trip is now missing, presumed dead. Not much of a loss, as it was always difficult to get on and stay on. I started walking out of town along the road. A bit of storm damage was lying around. The markers stopped fairly abruptly after leaving town and were absent for the next few km. Read more…

E9: Reinberg – Kirchdorf (detour) – Greifswald-Eldena

Friday, September 21: Fine and warm to begin with, strong gusts of wind and bits of dust storms during the course of the day, just before the end of the hike, rain

Hiking: 28.6 km

R. Biedenweg, Am Bierbach 1, double room as single, shower, toilet, use of fridge, with breakfast (€37.6)

Was unable to sleep much beyond 6:15 this morning, but lay in bed awaiting enough light to go to breakfast. Once that had been dealt with, I checked my email for today’s exact address and sent the hosts an email advising of my arrival time. Everything packed up just nicely, and I had plenty of time to go to the supermarket for today’s softdrinks, and to get to the bus station, where there was only the one bus that was waiting, and with a couple of minutes before scheduled leaving, take on the three passengers.

Church in Reinberg
Church in Reinberg
I had decided on Reinberg as the starting point for today, and a sign along the old cobblestone road parallel to the modern road proved me right – where cyclists might have started descending towards Stahlbrode, there was a detour sign in place saying keep straight ahead. No other signs around as to where this detour started. After just on an hour I was in Kirchdorf, where there was one sign, then it was up to me and map-reading my GoogleEarth extracts. In one of the outskirts of Jeeser (and a number of places today seemed to consist only of isolated outskirts) I discovered a railway station with regular services (at least more regular than the bus services in this part of the world), so that would be an alternative break point, if you needed to get to either Stralsund or Greifswald). Further down the road (and much of today’s section was along various roads) Jager turned up with two markers, and that was the last of the markers for a long time to come. Read more…


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