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…
Two more legs of the PanEurope Bike path.I will not get to Prague or even Nuremberg but I want to get a bit farther East than Heilbronn.Now my first planning tool was google maps – plus the attempt to find a GPS which fits with my Garmin system.Again gpsies was the way to go…Google maps because I have to take…
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…
oul. I heard them partying all night, through the window of my room.This trip was planned to be somewhat open ended. If I rode slower, I could append a day or two. That’s why I did this in the vacation time. But then – each additional day adds costs for lodging, food, etc.I was not sure if I could manage…
Starting out in Vitry – but I could not really start without a decent breakfast. My room was really luxurious – the rooms in this B&B looked like showrooms in a real estate business. But this was one comfy bed. And also the yard was really nicely set up. I took a short walk out there to take a look. Like…
I just decided to not set an alarm, and got up around 8:00. Breakfast, then a short visit at the local Decathlon. They had cycling gloves there…After the visit I still had shoes with the soles detached but I had gloves. Cheap ones, too… The day promised to become hot. hotter than Thursday. And I had actually checked weather reports…
Thursday. Long waited for But breakfast first. And a quick meet with a very nice local ingress player. That’s one of the things I love about this game – you find like-minded all over the world…Sports connects. Ingress connects a different way. Meeting inter pares. Not like tourists, hosts and guests. Many reasons for having awaited this day – this…
The train. Nothing really, just a really really long trip. Starting directly from home, I packed my bike, pumped the tires and set off… There is a Baden Wuerttemberg ticket which lets you go anywhere in this state. Meaning I could go to Kehl, which is half an hour from Strassburg main station.Then hop on the bike. Then hop into…
New blog, new pathways to somewhere, wherever that somewhere should be. Those who know this address – unter my name there’s an old blog – with the last entries from 2013.I have been logging and reporting about races – triathlons mostly, but also other stuff, 10k races, marathons, whatnot. And that’s only a small part – there is a whole…
