Bad-Essen to Marina Recke, 3-4 June

Mamma duck adopted two goslings. 

Bad-Essen, a Kurort where you can really get cured. 

Beautiful, calm, peaceful

and healthy

and salt. 

800 m underground is a "220 million year Urmeerwasser" the Bad-Essener Sole.  Salty salty water. 31,8 % salt to be compared with Dead Sea at about 20%. 

The Sole is vaporized and inhaling the mist is a real treat. Only for salty tough guys. 

The Sole Arena an impressive structure. 

Built for health

Our neighbors Karl and Anna invited us for wine. We joined them with our briefcase BBQ. After specifically warning L not to stand up because the table was unstable, I got up to tend to the fire, the table topled over with Anna and Karl falling backwards almost into the water with all their potato salad, food and wine falling over them. Two glasses broke and a knife disappeared in the water. They took it very well. Karl said he had been reading a book about the Vikings and how terrible they were. He can now confirm that that is true, was his comment. 

Took a bike ride for breakfast at the Schloss Hünnefeld. In 1447 Albert von dem Bussche-Ippenburg bought the the place. 

We were welcomed by a lovely Danish Lady from Rungstedt who ran the BB and she was also the curator of the Schloss. An Austrian TV team had just been filming an episode of "So schlaft der Graf." It will be shown in German TV in November. 

Schloss in the background. 

A rope got entangled in the propeller. First dip in the MLK to remove the rope with sharp Moraknife. Carl is now known as Überkapitän Carl von Underwasser auf der Mittellandskanal. 

Marina Recke 10 km from the end/start of the MLK. 

Had a beer at the Panorama Cafe with a local couple and their dog Paula who had just had 12 puppies. 

Wir sprechen deutsch.