Sabbatical 2021 – Prologue – First stop Sweden

Sabbatical 2021 – Prologue – First stop Sweden
Our two bikes in front of the ferry center in Rostock.

When we started planning our Sabbatical more than two years ago, we imagined to start cycling southward and to spend our first weeks in France and Italy. But then the Corona pandemic hit and over a year there were ups and downs if travelling is possible or not. Also it was and is very uncertain when the pandemic will end.…

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Overnighter Seligenstadt/Karlstein am Main 2019

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View over the river Main in the direction of Seligenstadt.

Mid of October 2019 brought us still a bit of golden autumn. So it was the best time to do one last overnighter tour for this year. We decided to go to Seligenstadt, a small town between Aschaffenburg and Frankfurt (Main). We started from Heppenheim and followed more or less small paths, often good elaborated bike routes and sometimes also…

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Japan 2018 Stage 3 – Akehamacho Takayama to Shimanto

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Yusuhara river on our way toShimanto Autocamping Field Welcome.

Also the day before this stage we had a rest day. So we took it easy and cycled a few kilometer along the coast to Akehamacho Takayama. There we bought some food and drinks in the local store for the next stage. We took a little walk through the village and went to the beach right in front of our…

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Italy 2017 Stage 6 – Gonnesa to Santa Margherita

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Spiaggia Foxi e Sali - beach at Santa Margherita.

On our free day in Gonnesa we slept a bit longer and then tried to get some breakfast at the agriturismo. But it turned out that there was no breakfast for us as we should have told them the day before that we want some. So we went into the city of Gonnesa desperately searching for a breakfast spot. However,…

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Italy 2017 Stage 4 – Nurapolis to Sciopadroxiu at the Costa Verde

Italy 2017 Stage 4 – Nurapolis to Sciopadroxiu at the Costa Verde
View over the green mountains at the costa verde. Now you know the cause for the name ;)

For our tour to the Costa Verde we started again quite early in the morning. First, it was an up and down in the direction of Oristano. We got forward really fast passing smaller and bigger villages. The traffic was okay and by lunch time we were in front of Guspini and had already made the major part of the…

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Italy 2017 Stage 3 – Tresnuraghes to Nurapolis

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Our tent at the campsite Nurapolis in Sardinia.

We learned from the first tour and started quite early from Tresnuraghes to be make some kilometers before the heat of the midday would come. So the alarm clock ringed around 5:30 and we were on the bikes around 6 after a tiny breakfast and trying to make coffee with an italian espresso cooker (not really successfully...). Our target was…

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