Although I love Essen and everything seemed to go so well, again I got lost shortly after I found the first promising sign pointing to my first destination „Werden“. I even circled back to the sign and tried again but not a chance to find the follow-up sign. So I decided to cycle to Werden according to my phone, again missing one of those „wonderful“ cycle routes.
Although it was pretty warm, I slept well and was awake around 6 AM or even earlier. I got up a little later and was on the road around 8 AM which was a good start, keeping the temperatures of yesterday in mind.
But again, as usual in big cities, it took a while before I found the route I wanted to follow today: the Emscher Weg.
(mehr …)Download GPX track (Muenster to Luenen)
The day’s events started again with a cat, this one was named Max.
I was sitting outside on the door mat and putting my shoes on, leaving the door ajar because I wasn’t a 100% certain that I had already brought all my stuff outside to put it on my bike.
And then Max the cat came along. He and his friend Zora are not supposed to be in the house while nobody is at home, so I closed the door a bit, thought for a bit and when Max started to step inside, I closed the door shut. I went to the garage and even before I opened the door, I realized that my drinking bottles were still inside the house….damn….
(mehr …)Download GPX track (Freckenhorst to Handorf)
Once again, I started in beautiful sunshine. I cycled from Freckenhorst to Warendorf on the 100 Schloesser (=castles)-Route which is about 8k long but sooooooooooo much nicer than cycling along the busy main road.
After a rather rough start into the day, first some „authority“ issues with the cat during breakfast, then an incredible confusing way out of Bielefeld and an almost real mountain (on top is a restaurant, named „Auf’m Berg“ (=on the mountain) and the road’s name was Bergstrasse (=mountain road)), the hardest part of the day was already over shortly after 9 AM.
And then the beautiful part began.
(mehr …)Right after the start: Tree in the morning mist
Looking awfully innocent but my favorite compagnon was present as well: THE wind
The weather forecast predicted strong winds, so I decided to leave early, just in case.
(mehr …)After a veeeeeeeeeeery refreshing night and an absolutely phenomenal breakfast at the Hotel zur Muehle (unpaid but genuine recommendation 🙂 ), I started quite relaxed in my cycling day.
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