Monday 12 September - Diesdorf

Where's Bertie? He's still in the Stellplatz at Diesdorf.
Weather: Sunny for most of the day, some cloud at times, warm.

An information sign at the Stellplatz shows points of interest hereabouts, one of which is some dolmens (megalithic tombs). No further information is given as to their location, but it didn't take much Googling to turn up some lat/longs, which I duly plotted on a map, and thus today's objective was a walk to visit two of them, then continuing on a circuit back to our start point.

It didn't look like it would be possible to visit the first of the sites (the online record said that it was only accessible when the field was fallow)...

It's in that clump of trees over yonder, but with a field of maize in the way. 

...and I didn't know exactly how best to approach the second (according to the map there's not a path to either), but when we came across a tractor track, we followed it, and for a while it looked like it might take us to the first dolmen after all. But no, as we got closer, we saw it was surrounded by crops. With the naked eye the rocks of the now destroyed dolmen were clearly visible, but I'm not sure if you can make them out in the photo:

There's not much left of this one bar some big rocks

Happily, at the end of that tractor track, another little-used track headed off in the right direction for the second dolmen, and sure enough, after a while, it appeared before us:

One of the capstones is still in place, two are present but dislodged, two (maybe three) are missing

We wouldn't have understood so well what we were looking at here, and how it had been constructed way back in the depths of time, if it hadn't been for our visit to a museum on the subject in Spain a few years ago.

A path took us out of the forest, then a bit of trespass along the edge of a field took us back to the main track, which I think is actually a public road, albeit variously sandy or crudely cobbled, and always rough. At the next turn I warned Mick that I'd plotted this route without any knowledge as to the private or public status of any of these tracks, and this one didn't look like a public right of way at all. Nevertheless, we proceeded, nobody stopped us (we didn't see anyone!) and the next thing we knew we were passing houses with plenty of indications that we were indeed on a public (unsurfaced again) road. We passed another dolmen on the way; I'd not spotted this one in my research, and failed to take a snap of it even when we did see it.

Roadworks. More evidence that these are public roads, despite looking like little-used tracks. 

Surprise windmill

With snacks from plum and apple trees lining the tracks (so much fruit going to waste; oh the jam I could make from those plums!), back to Diesdorf we went.

Back at Bertie, lunchtime was upon us, but we opted to have elevenses first. Then, with Mick hankering after currywurst mit pommen, we ventured out to the Donerhaus take away. The two chaps working there, in realising our nationality, passed comment on the death of our Queen and admitted shedding a tear - even though she didn't theoretically hold any significance to them.

Disappointing was the verdict. The wurst was not of the quality Mick had been hankering after.

The afternoon has largely been filled with knitting and work. I'll let you guess which of us was doing what.