Follow the Blue Dot Road

So we headed off for Melchow early Saturday morning each with a 12kilo backpack. There was a mild but consistant rain when I woke up earlier, but it was gone when we started which kept our spirits up for the mammoth task ahead: 34km from Melchow to Tiefensee.

The track was marked with a blue dot on a white square and we followed for like 30 mins until the road split and the track that I had printed out on google maps went one way, the blue dot the other. We figured we stick to my map which unfortunately had us walking on an asphalt road for quite a while. To make things worse the rain set it again.
Still we just kept walking along fields of gold and red and blue, tall trees and small villages with equally small churches until we met the blue dot track again and turned back into the woods along small lakes.The rain stopped and with the birds singing, little frogs jumping out of our way and the rustling leaves of the trees it was so breathtakingly beautiful that we almost forgot our complaining feet.

Having had small breaks with just snacks along the track we were nearing exhaustion when we finally came to Leuenberg after like 30km. To make things worse we lost the blue dot road and had to ask locals and look at my google-maps printout to find the way to today's destination Tiefensee including a short walk on a train track since my map made no distinction between this one and normal foot paths. Yeah, adventure!

We were on our last legs when we finally arrived at the campingsite at Tiefensee with the receptionist staring at us wide eyed when we told him how far we had gone today.
We put up the tarp, had some small dinner and the best coke ever from the small campsite shop. The first sip tasted to fantastic! Like the first sip of coke I ever had in my life back in 1990.
So we went to bed hoping that our feet would recover over night.

Sunday started with perfect sunshine and mild temperatures. Perfect for hiking. The blister on my left heel had turned into a bulging dome at the size of a walnut so I decided to cut it open and tape it afterwards. Only the hard survive! So we headed off sore and limping like two old ladies.
Soon we got into a steady walking pace again and entered our blue dot track again. The whole day we were in the woods with occasional lakes until we finally arrived at Spitzmühle after 17km with terribly hurting feet and dragged ourselves into the only restaurant there.
After a great ice cream bowl we decided to take a cab for the remaining 3km to Strausberg since our feet just couldn't go anymore.

After all it's been a tremendous efford and 34km were really too much on day one. Still we enjoyed every bit of the trail. Being surrounded by nature watching frogs and snakes and listening to the birds was worth every bit of it!