When I left Dalldorf, I rode - on the neat small roads - over to B71. Then I rode B71 to Salzwedel. which is about 25 km south and east. Salzwedel is in Saxony-Anhalt but Uelzen and Dalldorf are in Lower Saxony. In Salzwell, I thought I could get a Saxony-Anhalt railroad ticket and go any where in the state for 25 E including my bicycle. That meant I could ride to Salzwel and take trains to Wittenburg or Magdeburg or even Liepzig.
It was very beautiful that morning, and the riding was excellent. When I got to Salzwell, I rode around for a while - a very nicely restored old town - stopped in a church yard and ate the food I brought from Dalldorf and then rode to the train station. at that point I wasn't sure if I wanted to take the train or just ride - another 100 km - to Magdeburg. What I found at the train station - a broken ticket machine that meant I couldn't buy a Saxony-Anhalt ticket - convinced me to ride on.
Riding was good - I usually had a side-tail wind - and, although dark clouds formed, there were no storms. I stopped at Gardelegen to eat a Falafel Donner and snacked twice at service stations.
Here you can see that the trike has a VW rear end
At Gardelegen, B71 joined with another road and became an Autoroute so I continued south on the an old road. That was quite peaceful, if a bit bumpy in parts, and very pretty. At Letzlingen, after a bit of cobblestone, I was back on B71 and stayed there till it autorouted again near Magbeburg.
The old road makes its transition back to new pavement about 10 km south of Gardelegen
When I reached Haldensleben, I check it out looking for places to stay. I saw signs for four hotels, but never found any of them. I decided I better just ride on to Magdeburg. That ride got better when the B71 got a nice bike lane. Then it got more complicated when signs announced that B71 was becoming an autoroute. My GPS got in me into the city through the autoroute barriers - two of them. It would have been hard to ride in from the east without that guidance. When I got in the city , I tried using it to help me find places to stay, but it wasn't as useful at that. I final rode by a place I could stay. it was one that I had ridden by years before and thought it might be fun.
I stopped at the City Hotel which is a small, modern, hotel, right by the main railroad station. It cost too much - twice as much as the great place in Wittenberg - but it was in the right place, the wireless worked - it has an open wireless network, and the room was comfortable, clean, and very functional. And, of course, it is about a km from the Elbe Radweg.