#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
#Day36 Sun and encouragement
Bad Bramstedt to Quickborn – 23km 12C Terrain: cycle routes only, yay! Slightly shorter distances today and tomorrow to rest the legs a little. Tomorrow I arrive in Blankenese, a place that my gran passed through on her journey to Celle. It’s in the outskirts of Hamburg so I’m going to spend a couple of […] Read More
#Day35 Acts of kindness
Morel to Bad Bramstedt – 30km 12C Terrain: cycle routes and road It was seriously cold today! I think it must have been about 10C when I started with gale force winds, no joke (especially in summer shorts!). Even had numb fingers at one point. I’m definitely experiencing the extremes of summer weather in northern […] Read More