On Wednesday, my whole body was hurting after the steep climb at the end of the previous day. That’s why I decided against cycling the Limes (=Roman border wall) route which includes a lot up and downhills. And opted for the famous Kocher-Jagst cycling route and follow the Jagst river towards the Neckar, the reverse direction from the „original Kocher-Jagst-Route“.
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From Kocher to the Jagst: Schwaebisch Hall to Jagsthausen
After two months of holiday after the first half of my cycling adventure, I started a separate stint to also tick-off Hesse from my list of federal German states.
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Beautiful training ride to the Einkorn
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 🙂 
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Heilbronn to Schwaebisch Hall: off to summer break
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. -
Rocks and trees: Dahn
Today I went on the Felsenpfad (=rock trail) around Dahn, actually I did only half of the trail since I needed already three hours for the six kilometers of the first half. The reason? Beauty and curiosity and photo motifs everywhere and walking barefoot for a while and taking it easy and….
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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
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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“ 🙂
