Riding 20km. After all those days. Meeting a couple who took a similar route on a different bike path – bound to Ulm, on their non electric bikes – making Ulm in two days or three. The guy I talked to probably around 70 years old. wow! I had some nice landscape to cover, just to have village skylines emerge…
Wow. I really did not think I’d made it this far. Cycling – I had been with my electric bike all over the place – but this is a regular race frame, with luggage. With a bendy back and cleats and all that. Who was I to plan 500km in one piece. After not doing any racing activities anymore. On…
Gruenau, yesterday, this day I first found the towns of Suess (sweet), Ottensoos, Pommelsbrunn, Lauf, Hammer What makes people name their villages? Why would my village be named „hammer“ I got a delicious breakfast at my place, Whatever, on my merry way along the B14 road, with a few excursions to the side. I knew I wanted to hit Nuremberg…
The next morning I got a delicious breakfast in my Stribro pension, and then set off to buy a helmet. The store opened at 8AM, and a very friendly person who happened to speak some English, sold me a gray bolle helmet. I payed, we chatted a bit about riding through forest bike paths and all that – the store…
This is more or less a hostel – a bed, plus facilities to clean up,, It was good I had packed towel and soap (always good to know where your towel is) but I could not get breakfast. On the other hand, I didn’t mind setting off and searching for some local bakery or cafe en route. When I was…
So. Home again. Laundry washed.Thoughts…So I met this couple – a male and a female cyclist from New Zealand.They take six weeks vacation time to cycle Germany.And they just had stoppped for a moment to savor the plums which grew along the way. While eating some more of the juicy fruits, we discussed differences – weather patterns and insect population.…
First things first. Breakfast in Schwaebisch Hall. They had muffin-ish thingies, like omelets and pached egs, including herbs and/or bacon.And coffee, of course.Carb loading.I already had some good carbs the day before – in the shape of potatoes. Now the breadrolls. When I had woken up I had noticed that my special contraption I had made for my watch to…
On the road again. Or… on the PanEuropean Bike Trail again.A lot of this is not roads – this time I had pathways with gravel or even grass. prep for the Czech part, I guess…Right now – I took a train to Heilbronn. This is pretty much where I ended the second leg. I had ridden from Kronau to Mosbach…
This is the other project: the European long distance hike… It goes North South… As posted before – at the end I’d like to have hiked and/or biked all of Europe.Why? Because connections best happen person to person. Face to face.And because I want to… training for endurance. Maybe for a Megamarsch type event. Sightseeing at places which are not…
A few times it crossed my mind that this project was crazy. I had back issues, knee issues, now Achilles issues.I fell from my bike once.I have DNFed one half Iron race, how come I wanted to finish 500km?This project is crazy and this project is not over.Who am I to try pinpointing Europe, the European idea?The next route goes…
