Photo of the lighthouse Dornbusch on the island Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea

My travel adventures

& some other stuff

Kategorie: Sport

  • Beautiful training ride to the Einkorn

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    Today I cycled my old training route from Schwaebisch Hall via Gaildorf and the old coal road to the Einkorn back home.

    I started right after the rain and it was just beautiful to watch the water evaporate from the forest.

    I would have loved to stop every other minute to take a picture BUT I had to be back for lunch time, so I didn’t take too many breaks 😉

    So – „unfortunately“, you have to come here in person to see the whole beauty 🙂

    In case, you’re wondering about the strange picture format: today I had only my phone with me and not my camera.

    Also the route parameters are, once again, calculated by OpenStreetMaps and don’t really seem realistic to me – just subtract generously and it’s probably correct 😉

    View onto the Einkorn, our backyard „mountain“
    View from the Einkorn – I just love it here 🙂
    The sun comes out, right after the rain

  • Heilbronn to Schwaebisch Hall: off to summer break

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    Thursday was another holiday and another predicted hot day with thunderstorms and heavy rains predicted for later in the day. Consequence for me: another early start. This time I was on the road already at 7 AM!!! and it was already warm.

    Since it was a holiday, almost nobody was on the streets and I found my way easily out of Heilbronn.

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  • From Karlsruhe to Heilbronn

    It was predicted to be another hot day and my calculated route would be around 90 km, including some meters in elevation. So I started the day with only a very small breakfast (only one dry bread roll….yummie ;-)) ) and veeeeeery early: I was on the road by 7 AM.

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  • Green and sunny: From Dahn to Karlsruhe

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    Hills on the left, hills on the right – and I’m just cycling downhill 🙂

    What a beautiful day / ride

    I started early, around 8 AM, because it was suppose to get warm again. I started off through the beautiful forest of the Pfaelzer Wald and the whole first ten kilometers were going downhill on a beautiful smooth cycling road.

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  • Mixed conditions but such a nice cycling day: Bierbach to Dahn

    After the breakfast at the a little weird guest house (and the tiniest room I stayed in), I started into a beautiful morning: it was already warm and all the tourists were still asleep or at least not on the road ;-).

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  • Quick trip: From Saarbruecken to Blieskastel

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    Bye, bye, Saar

    Today, I already left the Saar again and cycled East towards the Pfaelzer Wald (= forest). I also cycled the shortest stint of my tour (about 32 km) – and I found a new app (more precisely, Dieter did), Naviki, which seems to work better than the one I used before. Let’s see 🙂

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  • Excursion to hilly France: Perl to Saarbrücken

    the French part of the Mosel cycling path

    The weather was predicted to be sunny and warm, so I started early, around 8:30 AM.

    First, I cycled down all the way to the Mosel again and after just a few meters, I was already in France. There was no sign for the border but the „Moselradweg“ sign was suddenly in French: „Chemin de la Mosel“ 🙂

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  • Nice and easy along the border: From Trier to Perl

    Luxembourg on the other side of the Mosel

    I was cycling all day along the Mosel which is the border to Luxembourg but never touched foreign soil. But we went shopping for food on the day before in Wasserbillig which is in Luxembourg.

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  • 1st of May, Day of work: From Traben-Trarbach to Trier

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    First of May is a holiday in Germany, the so-called „day of work“, meaning: nobody works and everybody parties and has BBQs 😉

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  • Once more, against the wind: Cochem to Traben-Trarbach

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    along the Mosel

    Despite the very nice room and a delicious breakfast, my bad mood was back (maybe I was sensing the bad weather already). I also had to do some shopping and it took some contemplating on which side of the Mosel I wanted to continue, so I started relatively late.

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