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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
hoechst sargans – hoechst
124km
alex continues her tour towards france, so i accompanied her to sargans. you can follow her on her blog on: http://nomadesland-globebikeuse.blogspot.com/
i want to thank all the great people who helped me along the route and made the whole tour as enjoyable as it was.
here a little sum up: 35.000km 365.000 alti meter in 1,5 years
central america: los angeles to panama 8.000km
south america: cartagena buenos aires 15.000km
newzealand 4.500km
china: hong kong lanzhou 3.300km
europe: helsinki bregenz 4.000km
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
gmund am tegernsee schwaigsee
84km 745 alti meter
again stop and go on the rolling hills in the prealps (as we try to hide out some of the heavy rainshowers). we check out the old town of bad toelz before we head for some more climbs.
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
salzburg / rif-taxach grabenstaett / chiemsee (germany)
86km 661 alti meter
a day of detours and zig-zag. the rain was supposed to stop at noon so we have a longer lunch break trying to hide out the rain.
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
grein / struden lambach
108km 473 alti meter
we see lots of cyclists on the danube cyclepath (mostly going downstreams). the concentration camp mauthausen leaves a sad impression and us quiet for a while
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
vienna duernstein
103km 271 alti meter
following the danube upstreams. passing the nice old town of tulln and the wine gardens after krems.
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
vienna rest day
i got the chance of meeting some more friends which i haven´t seen for years!? (shame on me!) with the great help of the guys from technische taten i should be able to ride back to vorarlberg with my bike.
the big bolt is supposed to keep the broken bottom bracket together!?
nice welding job!
running sushi dinner with alex, marlies & maciek
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
vienna rest day / sight seeing
42km 200 alti meter
riding around doing some sightseeing and meeting some dear friends!
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
10km < trencin berg (austria)
133km 376 alti meter
a fast day on the road, so we checked out the old town of bratislava before entering austria.
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
mojs 10km < trencin
108km 292 alti meter
a stormy night with thunder and lightning (and the noise of the rock conveyor)
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another crack in the frame!?
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
orava lake majs (8km < zilina)
112km 582 alti meter
we crossed the dam and followed the orava river ´til it joins the vah river which will be our guide towards bratislava.
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Donnerstag, August 5th, 2010
krakow wisniowa
46km 412 alti meter
again a very hot day on the road, so it was not only pure interest which made us visit the salt mines in wieliczka (constant 14-16 degrees C in the up to 125m deep caves & tunnels).
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. the long way down
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everything is built out of salt
the very religious miners built chapels and churches
steep cobble stone climb at 40 degrees C
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Mittwoch, Juli 14th, 2010
krakow rest day / sightseeing
we had a great time with magda & maciek in the nowa huta district. the guys at the bike shop didn´t have time to check our bikes, but they let me use their tools so i could do some service to alex´s and mine bottom bracket.
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Dienstag, Juli 13th, 2010
cracow rest day
time for a blog update, bike maintenance and some backups
. and some sightseeing of course! (but only if the temperatures drop in the late afternoon!?) andrzej gave us a interesting walking tour in the old town and jewish quarter of krakow.
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Dienstag, Juli 13th, 2010
ogrodzieniec cracow
69km 417 alti meter
the rolling hills are getting steeper and longer. it is obvious that we are getting closer to the mountains. we tried to escape the brutal midday heat with a nap in the park of olkusz. after some more hot hills we roll downsteams the pradnik river through the ojcow national park. after checking in at the hostel a nice walk around old district of cracow.
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Dienstag, Juli 13th, 2010
piasek ogrodzieniec
61km 694 alti meter
we pass some nice leaf tree forests and pine woods. the trails are sometimes just some sandy tracks which are not really bikeable (especially with a loaded bike), although they are signed out as the cycling route!?
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Dienstag, Juli 13th, 2010
kamiensk piasek
96km 465 alti meter
we started early and got to czestochowa for lunch break and some sightseeing before getting on the trail of the eagles nests (the runins of medieval castles lay like bird nests on small hills in the jurassic upland).
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Dienstag, Juli 13th, 2010
domaniewice kamiensk
100km 392 alti meter
the bottom bracket suffered again in this sandy rolling hills / detours, so i exchanged the chinese 8mm bolt that kept the bottom bracket together for more then 5500km!?
to hot to put on the rain cover of the tent, but some shelter from the mosquitos and the morning dew version a
to hot to put on the rain cover of the tent, but some shelter from the mosquitos and the morning dew version b
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Dienstag, Juli 13th, 2010
warsaw gora kalwaria
40km 104 alti meter
magda & maciek from krakow gave us some great tipps about the route and whats to see along it! we left late and it´s alex´s b-day, so we checked in at the only motel in the village and watched the soccer game on tv.
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Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2010
warsaw rest day / sightseeing
time to update the blogs and look at the further route, as the weather in town is to hot and almost paralyzing. marek took us on a sightseeing tour to some off the not so touristy but very historical parts of town.
the artist and his sculptures
the only few remaining walls in ww2 in the jewish quarter.
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Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2010
murzynowo – kampinos
91km 208 alti meter
we ride through the nice old town of plock and hear about the 22 villages only in this area who suffered from the floods a couple weeks ago.
once again a broken front rack!?
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