#Day49 Nature in a bottle
Bokeloh to Minden – 41km! 18C Terrain: off-road, cycle routes and road Thought I’d start the month off with a short 41km jaunt! Record for me so far, smiles. Loved today! Spent most of it in beautiful forest with some completely off-road bits. A bit of torrential rain along the way but to be honest […] Read More
#Day48 A glowing bear
Bissendorf to Bokeloh – 35km 18C Terrain: cycle routes and road I’m trying to get a few more kilometers in now there aren’t so many decent-sized towns. Hopefully my body can keep up with the ambition, fingers crossed. I didn’t have too good a night last night so feel pretty tired this evening. Tired but […] Read More
#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