Well, today I expected to ride a slow train to the border due west of here, but instead I spent most of the day in bed. Last night, while I was writing my report, I experienced a strange hot flash. Then, about an hour later when I had just finished the web page, I didn't feel up to working on my bike so I stretched out on my bed. 5 minutes after that I was huddled under all available covers - quite a lot of them - shaking violently. That lasted for an hour or two - hard to tell in that condition - before I was able to get up and take some ibuprofen. Half an hour later things had calmed down a bit, and eventually I was able to get my fever down, but the rest of the night was not a good one. Since my train tickets were for 7:55 this morning, I knew I wasn't going to on that train. That was not a big deal, at least as far as the ticket cost, since the tickets for me and my bike totaled less than $10! I'm glad I wasn't taking a fast, i.e. expensive, train! I got up about 7:30 and went down for breakfast about 7:45. It was not a great breakfast, but, given how I felt, a great breakfast would have been wasted. After breakfast, I asked the woman at the desk if she could help me find out what trains were available, etc. It took a little while to communicate what I needed, but then she called a friend at a travel agency whose office are in the train station, and arranged for someone from the agency to help me find out what was available and purchase the tickets. Since this is a big hotel, and they do a lot of tour groups - I saw one today - having the hotel ask them to help me carried a lot more weight than my wandering in and asking for help. I walked down to the train station in light rain and , with the help of a very nice young woman from Glob Travel, bought train tickets to Jelenia Gora, a good sized Polish town near the northern end of the Czech republic. I'm not yet well, he says having just made a quick run to the toilet, but I hope to be OK for the train trip. If not, I've wasted another $20 ;-(. This is a faster train. I am supposed to arrive at 4:08, so my travel time is less than half of what it would have been today, while the distance is bout 50% more. My plan now, which obviously will change if there are long term effects of this illness, it to ride to Litomerice and visit Terezen, then ride to Leipzig - a special place because a very special person was born and raised there - and then to Hamburg. If all goes well, I should be able to do that, if not, I can take the train from Leipzig., or a number of other cities along the way in Germany. It was a gray day in Posznan with light rain in the morning and heavier rain later in the day. I hope the weather is better farther east. As usual, I've been very lucky avoiding rain on this, fairly wet, European summer. My friends who live in Hamburg are in Sweden this week. It is raining a lot up there...