#Day 47 Bit of a hangover
Celle to Bissendorf – 30km 19C Terrain: cycle routes and road Not a real hangover! Sorry to disappoint (I haven’t gone AWOL and been on a complete bender!), it’s more metaphorical really in that I experienced what I can only describe as a Stage 2 hangover today. The main focus for stages 1 and 2 […] Read More
#Day 46 Successful research!
These few days in Celle have been great and I’ve even had some very unexpected success with family research. I have to say that my Uncle Peter who came down for a day to help out was an absolute godsend, an amazing help. I was really interested in two things: – finding out where my […] Read More
#Day43 Celle! Stage 2 Complete!
Becklingen to Celle – 32km 22C Terrain: cycle routes and road Wow, so I made it to Celle today! Can’t really believe it! 830km into the journey my legs need a bit of a rest but I’m just so so happy to be here and to have completed my gran’s journey as a refugee after […] Read More
#Day42 Oops! and silver linings
Barrl to Becklingen – 40km 19C Terrain: cycle routes and road So my leg didn’t make a miraculous recovery (as it has in the past, overnight) so I was forced to take yesterday off as couldn’t walk too well never mind run. So, went into the local town on the B&B owner’s bike (so kind […] Read More
#Day40 Varied views
Mienenbuttel to Barrl – 26km 16C Terrain: cycle routes Today was hard. I’ve been having a problem on and off with my leg which with a bit of anti-inflammatory seems to go away but had it from the get go today. Fingers crossed that tomorrow it’s gone again. I can keep moving but it’s not […] Read More
#Day39 Met a real Ironman!
Blankenese to Mienenbuttel – 26km 17C Terrain: serious off road, cycle routes and road After Bob and I experienced the daily commute out from the center of Hamburg back to Blankanese to continue my route, we had to tackle this! The only way down. […] Read More
#Day38 Some Hamburg pics
A great day cycling around Hamburg, sorting a couple of things out and seeing sites. My steed for the day and new tires for Bob Massive squat in Sternschanze Cool area though with nice cafes and places […] Read More
#Day37 A mini-milestone! Blankenese
Quickborn to Blankenese – 23km 12C Terrain: cycle routes Wow, so I finally plucked up the courage to put my vivrunseurope project on facebook last night. I don’t really know what was stopping me, I think I just wanted to feel like I’d actually achieved some distance before raising the profile of this. I woke […] Read More