Walk On

The weather in Magdeburg was a bit iffy over the first few days of the tournament, but there was glorious sunshine yesterday afternoon, and I decided to go for a walk, following the Elbe upstream

Looking back to the city

Remains of an old bridge on the far bank? That's what I thought at first, but I saw several similar pieces of stonework on my side of the river later, and they cannot all have been parts of bridges

This steam engine (lokomobile in German) was built in 1911 in Buckau, which was then the industrial quarter of Magdeburg - it ended its working life in a lumber mill, but was restored and placed by the Elbe in 2005 as a reminder of the area's heritage

Mini-marina

I was not walking especially fast - the weather was quite hot - but I overtook this pleasure boat, which can just be seen in the distance in the first photo of this post

Tree with interesting burrs

Unfortunately I was feeling rather lethargic, so I quit walking after less than two hours, and refreshed with a (non-alcoholic) wheat beer

Instead of walking back to the city beside the river, I followed tram tracks, which proved a much shorter route, albeit less varied