annoying little people standing over my shoulder......

left berlin and moving on, well not said that in a while without a (but we stayed a few extra nights) now have i??? we put in a big day getting out of berlin and after the sun and rain and anything else that has been decided to be thrown at us we managed to get to a campsite once again in the middle of nowhere but ner to a place called stendal.....however then insue a great day as we found that just behind what seemed toe a dark and dingy forest that we were sure to get bitten to pieces in we emerged onto a massive manmade beach!!!!cue the frisbee!!!well the repaired one anyways.....but first time for a swim and after going out to about 50 meters i hit upon something i wasnt exactly expecting, a ledge in the middle of nowhere???adn when i saya ledge i mean a rock and it ws surrounded by god only knowswhat but after closin my eyes and hoping i decided that it was all just very soft mud.....well i hope so at least.....
one of the oddest things about that campsite was oaying 25 euro deposit on a key for the toilets which we presume was a reason for us to go back in the morning and pay for the site....but not!!!upon going back to reception and meetin a few fellow cyclists and playing the mine is bigger than yours game with routes i got the deposit back and he sent me on my way....without paying!!!YAY!!!!
unfortunately our luck didnt last to the next night as we had to pay for that one and it was interestingly placed to say the least, however we did meet another couple of fellow cycling travellers....but these guys were american.ensuing mine is bigger than yours in every fashion between shane and the guy (the guy having twice as much kit on each bike for a 2 week trip) proved to come to a halt when in the morning shane realised that he had his first puncture!!!!after all the picking on me finally he got one too!!!!but he was slightly more fortunate than me in as the american guy who was standing there had a friend with him who builds his own bikes!!!not bad eh so as well as shane getting some expert advice on his tyres he also got a free tune up from the guy whilst having to listen to the worst german in the world ´coming from the american, and whats worst the german guy even spoke english!!!the game did eventually come to a halt when shane had out his padlock for the bikes, kryptonite, the best make around right and you always want a lock with u right???but no the american pipes up with "why would you carry that around its way too heavy, we dont need anything like that.and its not even that good." but at that moment the german guy turns around and sees the lock on the floor and picks it up for shane and after handing it to him turns to the american and says "the best, everyone should have one" so after leaving the american gobsmakced and shane rather smug we leave promptly and gain a good pump thanks to the nice german man.(also just before we got to the camosite that night shane ended up with yet another puncture!!!)
last night we ended up at a campsite that i wouldnt even think would exist....and i mean that because the nearest village is 5km away and there is sod all on site.except for an old lady who saw fit that after a long day cycling we seemed to need coffee and cake and she didnt take no for an answer, untill it came to charging us for it......however we do have to say that it was great cake full of sugar and very soft.just right....the only odd thing about the campsite was that the daughter of the owner decided to say just before we went to bed in the only english phrase that she had said all night "ah you sleep under my bedroom window" so with a strange sense of foreboding we quickly gathered our things and made for bed.without looking up for fear of anything to come.
now instead of staying there for another day and resting we decided to move on a bit to another site just down the road but out of the way abit so the next day wouldnt be so bad.....however after arriving here and finding it is actually a really good place we are staying here anyways!!!(they have go karting)bar is good and fairly cheap but the internet room is being clogged up by a load of kids that keep on staring over mine and shane shoulders i dont know which one of us will lash out first but they are closer to shane so i dunno yet.......
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