Elbe River trail
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Biking The Elbe trail – Hamburg to the North Sea at Brunsbüttel
Today was the final day of me biking alongside The Elbe. I decided to keep to the East bank to Brunsbuttel as I wanted to cycle on into Denmark and the ferry from the West bank across the mouth is meant to be very irregular. At Sandra’s suggestion I visited the ‘New Hamburg. HafenCity is in the…
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Day 10 on The Elbe Biketrail – Geesthacht to Hamburg
After last nights heavy rain & thunderstorms this morning was shrouded in thick mist. Today was going to be a short biking day so I thought I would go easy on the breakfast 🙂 although it’s incredibly hard to resist the brown bread rolls covered in sunflower seeds. I eventually left at half past ten,…
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Biking The Elbe Day 9 – Mödlich to Geesthacht
Another glorious autumnal day 🙂 The tyre stayed up after my latest attempt at fixing the puncture in the front tyre. I pedalled across to the main hotel for a full on breakfast. It’s going to be interesting to see how my weight has changed, once I get back home, from eating mega breakfasts, chocolate…
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Cycling Day 8 on The Elbe – Tangermünde to Mödlich
Weather wise an amazing perfect biking day especially with the wind coming from the South when I’m travelling North! Breakfast was an OK buffet so I was soon on my way to make a quick stop at Lidl and stock up on Rita chocolate and energy drink plus the obligatory banana. The first section was…
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Lazy day in Tangermüde
The only biking today was pedalling around the corner to take it into the Gerike bike repair shop to get the front light re-fixed after my small accident, actually they put it on in a much better position, and also to see if they could reset the rear derailleur as it has started to move two…
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Day 7 on The Elbe cycleway Pretzien to Tangermüde
A much better start to the day with fine weather an OK breakfast and missing out one of the Elbe’s horseshoe bends finding myself on the outskirts of Magdeburg in just over 1 hour, so pretty pleased that I stopped in Pretzien last night. I approached Magdeburg over the beautiful island park at Rotehorn on a perfect autumnal…
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Day 6 The Elbe Cycleway Listerfehrda to Pretzien
After a much better sleep and my Snorelab snore score halved from the previous night I woke to a very grey day & heavy drizzle. My spirits were lifted by the magnificent buffet breakfast spread & excellent personal jug of coffee. I’ve found the Landgasthof Sonneneck a perfect small hotel, friendly & efficient and the…
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Biking Der Elberadweg – Day 5 Riesa to Listerfehrda
Last nights sleep was the weirdest for quite some time .I ended up dreaming about a dream, how sad is that! It was a retake of my favourite childhood dream of flying my merely flapping my arms, still think it would be cool to do. Except in this one I had hit someone on take…
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Cycling The Elbe Day 4 – Dresden to Riesa
The rain finally caught up with me and after yesterdays miserable looking folks it was good to see so many smiling Germans, they obviously enjoy been out in the wet. I was in low energy mode after 7 days in the saddle, Strava reckons I’ve biked 367.8miles in 31h 34m and pedalled up 8,892feet in the…
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Elbe biking day 3 – Usti to Dresden
The much vaunted rainy day turned out to be bright & sunny as I went down to a hearty omelette breakfast in the Pivobar Hotel restaurant. Several cups of coffee later and a Facetime call to Sally (since once again 3 kept me locked out of the cellular network) and off I went past the beautiful…