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Day 12: Posseck - Stanoviště (CZ)

On the way to Czech RepublicBecause I noticed that I would still need some braking pads my brother and I don't take the direct way in the next morning but go via Oelsnitz. Pro Bike is a competent bicycle dealer who sells me the right braking pads with a little discount just for being there as traveling cyclist and hands me a tool for tensioning the chain. A very nice bicycle shop.
After this nice experience we continue on the Bundesstraße to the Czech Republic. Unfortunately from Oelsnitz there's no good alternative to this big main road. But all in all it's survivable and shortly after the border I choose small roads that have a rather good quality nevertheless. My brother leaves me after about 50km as he has to cycle all the way back home again against the wind.
Even if I have to take a bigger E-road there's mostly a wide kerb which allows safe cycling next to the faster traffic. This is convenient for cycling and no comparison with most of the German Bundesstraßen. Although it's a quite hilly region I manage to get to Stanoviště, a small village south of Mariánské Lázně‎. The camping site is really nice with very dedicated personnel. The "head" of the camping site speaks English and German and has an interesting way of making advertisment for the region.
As I want something nice for dinner I order some kind of pasta which is delicious. When I'm finished, the good weather is finished, too, and it starts raining. Before that a Dutch caravan user comes along at my tent because she saw that I tried to dry my towel by hanging it over the tent. She tries to talk to me in English but has some obvious difficulties. So I just say "Nederlands is goed, hoor." and she is happy to be able to use her mother tongue. She offers me to put my towel on her clothesline that she has at her caravan. I take the offer.

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