{"id":13775,"date":"2014-09-11T06:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T05:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2014-09-11T06:48:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T05:48:11","slug":"biking-the-elbe-trail-hamburg-to-the-north-sea-at-brunsbuttel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=13775","title":{"rendered":"Biking The Elbe trail – Hamburg to the North Sea at Brunsb\u00fcttel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-IMG_3854\"<\/a>Today was\u00a0the 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.<\/p>\n

At Sandra’s suggestion I visited the ‘New Hamburg. \u00a0HafenCity <\/a>is\u00a0in the old docks, I didn’t find it to inspiring although certainly much better than her other suggestion, the dual carriageway called Reeperbahn <\/a>which seems in terminal decline.<\/p>\n

I left along a pathway which can’t make it’s mind up whether you can cycle along or not! at least it’s flat and avoids the cars & a hill. The views of the docks are very good and it’s interesting to see a ship dedicated to shipping bits of aircraft around for the great Airbus project.<\/p>\n

Once out of the city the wind became ferocious blowing directly of the North Sea straight into my face \ud83d\ude41 I had quite a few heavy squalls of rain as well so weather wise not the best of days. I was beginning to think you should definitely cycle The Elbe from North to South.<\/p>\n

The cross channel ferry was operating but with a vast queue of several kilometres long waiting for the trip to Cuxhaven a side effect was a lady had set up a wagon selling fishy buns etc and drinks so I could stoke the boiler again.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>It was getting quite late when I finally arrived for the crossing of the Kiel canal, by ferry. Interesting to see a vast container ship nudging its way into the lock, I finally made it into Brunsbuttel at 6pm to find the first hotel full the second hotel a smokers den & more with the third hotel also full, I was starting to get a bit concerned \ud83d\ude41 However, a charming lady across from the hotel ran a classic b&b, loads of little notices & very fussy but at least a bed with views over the river but no internet on the day of The Apple iWatch event & my 1GB of phone date used up even though it was on GPRS all the time.<\/p>\n

The final Elbe Stats are:<\/p>\n\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n833<\/td>\n1010<\/td>\n9042<\/td>\n76.17<\/td>\nMoving<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Start<\/b><\/td>\nFinish<\/b><\/td>\nMiles<\/b><\/td>\nKm of Elbe<\/b><\/td>\nfeet up<\/b><\/td>\nMove time<\/b><\/td>\nmph<\/b><\/td>\nHotel<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cambridge<\/td>\nHarwich<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/td>\n1614<\/td>\n5.42<\/td>\n12.54<\/td>\nBoat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hook of Holland<\/td>\nAmsterdam<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/td>\n238<\/td>\n5.83<\/td>\n11.43<\/td>\nTrain<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prague<\/td>\nMelnik<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n69<\/td>\n1338<\/td>\n4.18<\/td>\n10.28<\/td>\nHotel Jaro<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melnik<\/td>\nUsti<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n81<\/td>\n855<\/td>\n4.43<\/td>\n11.41<\/td>\nPivovar Hotel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Usti<\/td>\nDresden<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n100<\/td>\n2322<\/td>\n5.82<\/td>\n10.78<\/td>\nMotel One<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dresden<\/td>\nRiesa<\/td>\n35<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n1451<\/td>\n3.17<\/td>\n11.18<\/td>\nHotel Saxonia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Riesa<\/td>\nListerfehrda<\/span><\/td>\n64<\/td>\n103<\/td>\n564<\/td>\n5.85<\/td>\n9.93<\/td>\nLandgasthof Sonneneck<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Listerfehrda<\/td>\nPretzien<\/td>\n74<\/td>\n119<\/td>\n404<\/td>\n6.63<\/td>\n11.19<\/td>\nPark Hotel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pretzien<\/td>\nTangermude<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n102<\/td>\n542<\/td>\n6.48<\/td>\n9.84<\/td>\nAm Rathaus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tangermude<\/td>\nTangermude<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.00<\/td>\n0.00<\/td>\nAm Rathaus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tangermude<\/td>\nModlick<\/td>\n78<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n267<\/td>\n6.85<\/td>\n11.37<\/td>\nAlte Fischerkate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Modlick<\/td>\nGeesthacht<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n104<\/td>\n812<\/td>\n5.62<\/td>\n11.57<\/td>\nHotel Elbblick<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Geesthacht<\/td>\nHamburg<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n191<\/td>\n2.63<\/td>\n11.66<\/td>\nSandra’s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hamburg<\/td>\nHamburg<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0.00<\/td>\n0.00<\/td>\nSandra’s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hamburg<\/td>\nBrunsbuttel<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n101<\/td>\n296<\/td>\n6.80<\/td>\n9.31<\/td>\nB&B<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

So biking The Elbe was 1,010km in 11 days of cycling. The surprising number to me is the 9042 feet of ascent, so it isn’t that flat! The other & more surprising to me, apart from the miserableness of other cyclists, is the poor quality of the internet. O2 could only offer GPRS throughout the trip except for a bit of 3G in the biggest cities. In the hotels speeds on WiFi were appalling every bit as bad as remote Cornwall. Staggering for a so called rich country famed for it’s engineering prowess.<\/p>\n

My Strava for the day is here <\/a>and pictures here<\/a><\/p>\n

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