Slowakei

  My stay in Slovakia was very brief, just 4 days and 220 km. After leaving Kraków, I spent one more night in Poland with a local family who very kindly invited me to spend the night in their attic room. They spoke neither English nor German, and I knew no Polish…..(Scroll down for more)…

Krakau

Farewell to Germany I stayed in Berlin for close to two weeks. I enjoyed my time, the routine which crept in quietly when T. and I were together, sitting on a city bench, drinking Cola and discussing problems of the world. Yet I had to travel on and was soon on my way to Goerlitz….(Sroll…

Berlin

The first day “Are you on a world trip?“ At the end of my first day, I am standing with a fully loaded bicycle on the camping ground of the Water Sport Association on the shores of the Weser. I nod and when I ask the group sitting in front of the RV if I…

„Good Bye“

Preparation With my new bicycle and 20 year-old maps I start my first tour from Minden to Remagen. Where my old maps still show forests and meadows, I now have to search my way through newly industrialized areas. I sleep somewhere in the woods and have no stove to boil water for my morning tea.…