Another short ride into a stiff headwind. Cycling steadily in a low gear at 6 or 7mph becomes unremarkable. The wind had brought down a tree that almost blocked our path, but we walked underneath bent double – with an ear cocked for sounds of splintering trees close at hand. Münster, as we know, is an easy city to cycle into, so navigation was easy. And we arrived at our hotel on the outskirts shortly before the forecast rain arrived.