Leaving Magdeburg Germany

A cold morning greeted us. We had a nice breakfast in the hotel after spending the night. Our bikes had been perfectly safe overnight despite the Nazi hoons who had scared the living daylights out of Sol the day earlier while I was checking us into the hotel.
Sol had been confronted outside while guarding the bikes by a bunch of nazis fielding fighting dogs. After I had checked us into the hotel and came out to see the pale, stressed face on Sol he related to me what had happened. I immediately ran back into the hotel to tell the young man behind the desk we could not stay here for the night.
The very pleasant young man obviously knew the local situation well and before I could go into much detail he pre-empted me by offering us free storage of our bikes in their secure basement car parking facility for the night as a gesture.
I accepted graciously and thanked him profusely.
There was a reason, that in the city of Magdeburg at this time there were absolutely no Mosques or Synagogues. We had learned why this was so and our guardian angels protected us once again.
When we left the roads were mostly dry. It had rained overnight but we were very glad to leave regardless of the weather conditions.
We needed fuel but decided to get out on the highway and stop at the first roadhouse we could find.