{"id":13687,"date":"2014-08-31T20:31:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=13687"},"modified":"2014-08-31T20:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T19:31:36","slug":"cycling-the-elbe-day-4-dresden-to-riesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=13687","title":{"rendered":"Cycling The Elbe Day 4 &#8211; Dresden to Riesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-IMG_3542-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13689\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-IMG_3542-001-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zwinger Gardens\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-IMG_3542-001-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-IMG_3542-001.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>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.<\/p>\n<p>I was in low energy mode after 7 days in the saddle, Strava reckons I&#8217;ve biked\u00a0367.8miles in 31h 34m and pedalled up 8,892feet in the past week (Just about what TdF riders in 1903 did in one day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0didn&#8217;t make a start till after\u00a011am without any breakfast so after an hour it was a brunch stop at the first open cafe. The path is good although it has a rather annoying habit of slipping into slippery cobble stones at random points. Also a couple of sections just stopped necessitating U turns. Most of the cafes were firmly closed too \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I made it to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riesa\">Riesa<\/a> at\u00a04pm. With internet enabled I could at\u00a0last usebooking.com. I\u00a0found the reasonably priced Saxonia Hotel for \u20ac38 including breakfast. It&#8217;s run by a family of Italians who apologised in advance for the birthday party tonight \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After my Pizza I went to explore, on foot, but some clown has built a dual carriageway cutting the hotel &amp; station from the town. The bit\u00a0I saw rather exudes a sense of hopelessness and according to Wikipedia \u00a020.000 other folks agree \u00a0having left since\u00a01989.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-IMG_0116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13688\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-IMG_0116-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"1-IMG_0116\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-IMG_0116-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1-IMG_0116.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>They have their own <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angel_of_the_North\">Angel of the North<\/a> here, It&#8217;s \u00a0a 25 metre high 400 tonne sculpture of a tree with a shovel, fallen cross &amp; ingots of steel (Angel of the North is 20m high and &#8216;only&#8217; weighs 200 tonnes). These sculptures are obviously to remind folks of their industrial past.\u00a0Although I think a better sculpture would be a pile of 400 cars \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Todays ride was 35.4 miles and 1,451 feet of climbing (Not so flat as I thought) the pictures <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/+GeoffJones47\/albums\/6053761563284682321\">are here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve biked\u00a0367.8miles in 31h 34m and pedalled up 8,892feet in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking","category-elbe-river-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}