The longcut

 I turned right at the river and walked to the bridge which I crossed and then turned left and returned to the road but on the opposite side of the river. The road is on the other side of the houses on the left. From this bridge there is a couple of kilometers in a down river direction (north) of riverbank and bottom construction.

Back on the road again, I found a house with a small but very pleasant Japanese garden. There were even some flowers in bloom.