Category: Travels

  • A day to relax: Bremen

    After five days of cycling and new surroundings every day, I was ready for some rest and so I spent the day in Bremen – and I liked it :-)))

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  • Too nice to be good enough: Sittensen > Bremen-Borgfeld

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    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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  • Workout for body and mind: Hamburg-Harburg > Sittensen

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    After a surprisingly refreshing night, I woke up around 5 AM when they started to prepare the market on the square in front of the building which also didn’t really bother me.

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  • Ups and downs: Lauenburg (Elbe) > Hamburg-Harburg

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    Very mixed day.

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  • Water all around me: Moelln to Lauenburg (Elbe)

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    Today, I woke up pretty tired and feeling stiff. Also the weather forecast wasn’t very optimistic, so I decided to cycle a rather short route along the Old Salt Road, meaning along the Elbe-Luebeck channel to Lauenburg at the Elbe river.

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  • The start: From Kluetz via Boltenhagen to Moelln

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    Let’s get started 🙂

    My first official segment of my journey through Germany, leading from Kluetz in Mecklenburg Wester-Pomerania, after a short detour via the beach of Boltenhagen to Moelln in Schleswig-Holstein.

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  • Sunny Easter Monday morning ride

    Sunny Easter Monday morning ride

    Yesterday it was sunny, so we “had” to go outside and cycled through snow and mud to the coast of the Baltic Sea near Steinbeck. We ended the tour in the café Miluh with some yummie chocolate cake 🙂

  • Introduction to my new temporary home: Tour around Kluetz

    Introduction to my new temporary home: Tour around Kluetz

    Today, Sven showed me the surroundings of Kluetz, including the beautiful Schloss Bothmer where, in summer, often classical concerts take place and the Maeuseturm (=tower of mice)

  • One week before take off (hopefully ;-) ): moving out of my flat

    One week before take off (hopefully 😉 ): moving out of my flat

    Hello, hello, hello everybody
    today is the first day I don’t have to do anything anymore – and it feels G-O-O-D 😀 (more…)

  • Cycling against the wind… Test ride from Luebeck to Kluetz

    Cycling against the wind… Test ride from Luebeck to Kluetz

    One week before I move out and two to three weeks before the scheduled start of my trip, I did my first test ride with about half my luggage (some normal clothes in my bikepacking bag and my handle bar for wallet, camera, phone,…).

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