Not the most exciting view from our room, but I do love the sign on the window.

Cloudy with drizzle was how we started our cycling day, but not before a lovely breakfast.

There are four floors of accomodation here and we think there are only two other rooms in use based on the breakfast table set up. It certainly was super quiet.

We packed the bikes and headed to the river. There are a distinct lack of bridges in this town and we needed to transfer across by ferry.

The ferry is free. No cars crossed with us on this trip, but there were a handful of cyclists and a few walk in pedestrians.

Ferries leave every 20 minutes from both sides. I presume the ferry operational costs are cheaper than building a bridge and the payback would be far too many years.

After a few km we were riding through a forest on dirt tracks. We did about 20 continual km on non sealed in the first 25 km. in places there were thick drifts of wet sand that were difficult to get through.

This was interesting. Wolin had an underground complex here pre World War II. The area formerly belonged to Germany and there are over one km of underground tunnels. You can visit in guided groups.

The forest traverse was close to the ocean. We needed to walk our bikes down the next section as the sand was over 30 cm deep with large ruts and wash aways.

We passed two young blokes who had been on our ferry crossing here. They had made a concerted effort to pass us earlier on so we smiled that the oldies caught up.

We were to see them on and off again for the next few hours with various stoppages.

We rode through the Wolinski National Park. It was particularly nice with lush vegetation, red squirrels and small deer. The paths were better quality than the earlier sloppy ones. There were many walking trails and a zoo.

With the Baltic Sea close on our left hand side, the forest provided great protection from the blustery coastal winds and persistent light rain.

On our right hand side (south), we passed numerous small lakes.

We stopped in a small town looking for food. A statue of Neptune drew our attention in the village of Wiselka. We found a small shop to grab some supplies.

Leaving the town and dirt behind for a while, we were following EuroVelo 10 and the path was nice and smooth!

The further we travelled, the more holiday and camping sites appeared. There does appear to be an interest in all things military in the area.

We continued to ride adjacent to forests between the ocean front and the main arterial road. A curious fox darted out to have a better look at us. Unlike the non cooperative deer and squirrels, this little one stood watching us enabling me to grab my iPad.

The town of Dziwnow is a holiday township these days, with salt springs discovered last century. We followed the river along for some distance.

Village after village along this stretch seemed dedicated to tourism with lots of construction occurring.

We have noted that overall, the Polish coast has been less affluent than the German, but with the amount of construction and tourism in the region, can only think the region will become a power house in the regional economy in time.

We went through Rewal and Niecxorze.

EuroVelo 10 had significant trail sections in the last 20 or so km, through plantation forestry areas. Still not as bad as our first 25 km by any means.

After 108 km, with around half being on dirt of various quality, we were thankful to arrive into Kolobrzeg safe and sound and without mishap. Both the bikes and our legs needed cleaning before checking in.

The reasonable clean bikes are in penitentiary.

We have half board lodgings here so dinner was included. Tony noted we were by far the youngest there! This is a spa town so I guess there are many seeking the youth elixir.

We ate far too much of a variety of Polish dishes on offer. Fish being very popular here as a main ingredient. We headed off for a post dinner walk of around 4 km.

Heading to the beach following broad paths through more forest.

A Baltic Sea white beach. These beaches stretch along the northern German and Polish coastline for many hundreds of km.

Lots of signage and curios.

The lighthouse was first constructed in 1899, and stands at the entrance to the port of Kolobrzeg.The Germans blew the lighthouse up in World War II as it was a lookout point for the Polish artillery. After the war it was rebuilt at a slightly differing location.

Found a Viking boat, of sorts 🤣

This statue intrigued me. Either the guy was little, or the fish was huge.

We have now been on the road for a week. We have ridden just over 700 km in our first week. Not a bad touring effort.

Today’s route along the Baltic coast.

Okey dokey, I’m having trouble keeping my eyes open. I need sleep.

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