Day 2 I cycled into the City and passed some glass fronted modern buildings before heading east - I was shadowing the N355 on cycle paths and in all honesty it was quite boring for the first 40 miles to Groningen where I had lunch. Leaving Groningen I picked up a canal to follow and at Sappemeer I was surprised to pass a shipyard with quite a large ship being built - surprised as we were a fair bit inland but the canals must make it easily navigable. At Scheemda I left the canal to see the Oldamtmeer, which is a lakewith lots of holiday homes and there was a bit of a beach and lots of families out in the decent weather. I stopped for an Ice cream then pushed on to Bad Nieuweschans and the German border. As I crossed into Germany I saw no signage at all but after a few hundred yards the next sign was in German so I must have crossed the border somewhere. I cycled towards Weener then skirted the River Ems behind a huge levee before crossing it just south of Leer, I stopped on the bridge to take a selfie before cycling straight through town and out to the east where I struggled to find my hotel. I joined the main 436 road briefly before going left at a junction - the pink line on the Garmin had it about half a mile away up a wooded hill. I found nothing so kept going but then I reached a bridge over the A28 motorway which I crossed and found a couple in a garden where I asked for the hotel but they didn't seem to know. I headed back and discovered all the way back down the hill at the junction I had turned off was a very low key Hotel slightly set back off the road !