Friday, May 23, 2025

23.05.25 Day 17 - Pasłęk-Bisztynek. Storks, firewood and an original camping

A beautiful day, seeing lots of storks and ending up on a special bu nice camping.

Stork,Ermland Masuria

Planning the route with OrganicMaps works quite well. Mostly roads, all paved (my choice!) and little traffic. There is a "green velo rorouteln this area, but for me it would be quite a bit longer. 

I started with the 527 to Surowe. Then to the left on quiet roads to very small villages ending up in a slightly larger one, Godkowo.

Church, Godkowo
Greek-othodox wooden church in Godkowo

Interesingling, the walls of the church are covered in the same way as Norwegian "stavkirker".

Moving on to Orneta for coffee+. On the way, there are numberless stork nests (picture above) with storks in it. But the Polish fertility rate is still among the lowest in Europe.

Then via Lubomino to Lidzbark Warminski, where I bought stuff for a camping dinner. From there, there was a very new road, still under construction but top pavement, with little traffic. There is also an almost ready bike lane, so this will remain a good cycling option.

Firewood, Ermland Masuria
Firewood is clearly poopular here

Riding towards the camping Bezstres close to Bisztynek I feviated from the "no unpaved roads option", 2km of (very) bad road is better than 12km more after all. You have to keep studying the map.

Camping is run by nice guy, Pavel

The camping is somewhat original, but perfect for my purpose. And very quiet, until a club of Germans with veteran lorries arrived 😀.

BeZstreS - Pole namiotowe, Camping

I'm now south of Kaliningrad

More hilly again, 500m ascent.


96km, 7 hours, active time 5:23.
Total 1669km


 

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