After a quiet and exceptionally good night of sleep, we watch the barges sailing down the canal, some huge! We walk down to the shower block, which is extremely clean and well-kept and have showers, €1 each. After breakfast we sit and plan our route and some possible overnight stops.

We leave Osterrönfeld around 11.45 taking A202 and then A77 to Krop, then A7 to Flensberg on the border of Germany and Denmark. We stop parking up at Kaufland supermarket and do a good-sized shop, stocking up with food for the week. We have lunch, back on the road we cross into Denmark onto E45 to Bov, then Krusa, here taking A7 to Sǿgärd Mose Bird reserve accessed along a narrow dirt track to a small car park under the trees. Here we stop and enjoy the quiet, even silence when there are no birds chirping.

There are a good many woodland birds. So walk to the observation tower with a good view of the lake but are disappointed not to see any birds (too hot… wrong time of day?). We take the footpath and walk through the trees and, apart from a red shrike (which is unusual) see no other birds. We have gammon and mushroom stirfry for tea and an early night. Another hot day at 26°C so we are quite tired.