Bike Ramble - Cycle Adventures on Planet Earth
Today was a bit crazy. So I crossed the border finally and find myself in Poland and can’t find anywhere to change my Euros into the Polish money (Zloty) and can’t find a cash machine. The only food I have with me is a bag of rice, some bread and a pot of jam. As…
I’ve been quite busy here in Berlin: Visiting museums, checking out the malls, seeing all the sights. It’s a pretty cool city. For some reason there’s graffiti absolutely everywhere you look. There’s a good subway and train and tram system for getting around but it’s also pretty easy on a bike. The roads are not…
Arrived in Berlin today. I got to Yohann’s flat and he’s like lets go climbing! So I find myself climbing an abandoned WW2 bunker a couple of hours later. It’s not the kind of staffed ‘we are safe’ climbing wall, it’s more of a turn up with a bit of rope and see what happens…
Potsdam is a nice little town just South West of Berlin. I met up with Clara and Tino yesterday who have kindly let me stay in their flat and today we had a look around the Sanssouci Park. It translates from French as ‘without concerns’ or ‘carefree’ and it’s a well chilled out place. It’s…
Woke up at 7 this morning, super early for me. I don’t know why because I only had to cycle around 25km or so today. At least the weather has changed. It was about 25 degrees today and going to be 30 maybe tomorrow. I cycled round the Schwielowsee lake through all the little towns,…
I stayed in a forest near Brandenburg last night. I think it was the most horrible night I’ve had so far. As I was pitching my tent I noticed a few mosquitoes about and I was like bummer, so I put on some repellent stuff and carried on. Then there was more so I put…
I cycled through Magdeburg yesterday. It was quite nice and a pretty big city. Didn’t really feel like looking around though so I left pretty quickly. Last night I thought I found a really good campsite but turned out it was full of bee hives. So I stayed at a legal ‘camp site’ for a…
Today I left Hanover and Owen, who has been cycling with me since Rotterdam. Sad times. Hopefully we will meet again in Berlin or Vienna! I took the canal path most of the way to Braunschweig. I forgot to go shopping so dinner was half a pot of pasta and 2 bits of bread. I…
I’ve spent the last three days watching the German Bikepolo Championships and drinking beer. I think I’m actually going to break a record for the first person to cycle around Europe and come back fatter than when they left. If you’ve not heard of bike polo before it’s basically like horse polo but everyone’s on…
If rickshaw drivers in Glasgow dressed like they do in Hannover, they’d be dead.
We went on a bit of sight seeing tour today. Visited the town hall which has some great views. There’s a lift inside that takes you up to the main viewing gallery that actually goes round a corner on it’s way up. The floor is sloped when you get in and then becomes level as…
Its been raining for 2 days straight now it’s so annoying. I have waterproof panniers but still my stuff inside gets soaked from opening and taking stuff out. My overshoes have been put in the bin. For the record don’t buy Altura overshoes. They say they are waterproof but my feet beg to differ. I…
Kicked about Munster today and went to the market. We can’t get enough of the cakes here! We stayed in the hostel SleepStation last night which gave us more time to see around the city. The botanic gardens was cool. There was over 8000 species of plant there. The sun even came out for a…