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Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2010
bienkowko ciechocinek
89km 255 alti meter
we take a look at copernikus birth place torun and try to follow the river. that is sometimes difficult as the traffic on the main road is fast and there is not much space for cyclists. the alternatives are secondary roads which turn sometimes into just a sandy path through the forest. pushing a heavy loaded bike through sand and getting attacked by aggressive mosquitoes is not the best part of cycling around here. we stop to check out the thermal pools which this area is famous for.
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Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2010
worlawki jagodno
96km 562 alti meter
we tried to get a boat from frombork to the mierzeja wislana but contrary to the information we got from the tourist information in braniewo, there was no boat that day!? so we checked out where copernicus used to work and continued cycling.
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Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2010
gizycko worlawki
110km 510 alti meter
nice day on the road, although the tourist information is closed and we couldn´t get more information about the area passing to the nice old town of ketrzyn.
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Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2010
wydminy gizycko
30km biking 15km kajaking 182 alti meter
we used the nice weather for a kajak day trip on the lakes and canals. (after realizing that there is one hour time differenz and that we got up at 5 o´clock!?)
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Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2010
suwalki wydminy
76km 301 alti meter
some more rolling hills on which we meet joel from paris who walks from tallinn to spain in 6 month!? we stop to take a look at the bunker / "defenssystem the germans build in WW2.
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Dienstag, Juli 6th, 2010
jurbarkas suwalki (poland)
155km 539 alti meter
a long rainy day on the roads. we leave the flatlands behind us and are getting more and more into rolling hills.
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Mittwoch, Juni 23rd, 2010
jurbarkas rest day
it started to rain in the morning and it was cold
. not exactly inviting for a long day on the road. so we decided to make use of the free internet at the guesthouse / campground to update our blogs.
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Mittwoch, Juni 23rd, 2010
pasyiai jurbarkas
99km 293 alti meter
nice blooming rape fields along the side roads.
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i scream for ice-cream!
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the 3 man from bremen on their way to riga
the rolling bike shop at work
.. broken derailer!? leatherman and a little piece of wood
.
the skeptic look
. will this work?
still skeptic
. but riding
.
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Mittwoch, Juni 23rd, 2010
curonian spit pasyiai
63km 258 alti meter
we checked out the border to the russian province and the sand dune before taking a sail boat to the main land (uostadvaris). we met a woman who imigrated to the usa 30 years ago and commented sadly about the economic changes of the area under soviet and now under eu influence.
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we all scream for ice-cream!
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Mittwoch, Juni 23rd, 2010
lithuanian border curonian spit
98km 224 alti meter
nice bike routes to klaipeda where we met steve from the uk. we took the ferry to the curonian spit where we cycled down to the border to the russian exclave kaliningrad.
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Mittwoch, Juni 23rd, 2010
riga rest day
in between french croissants for breakfast and tibetan lunch i did some serious extrem-couching while alex went sightseeing with flera and re.
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Mittwoch, Juni 23rd, 2010
kabli riga (latvia)
after a nice camp at the beach a nice ride along the coast to riga. along the way we meet rinrin, a japanese cyclist who is on the road since 3 years. re and flera pick us up at a beach about 35km north of riga. we watch re doing some kite-surfing and hang out at the beach.
http://www.rinrinweb.com/
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Mittwoch, Juni 23rd, 2010
soodla river kurgja
115km 289 alti meter
the mosquitos here show a impressive appetite and agressive behavior.
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Mittwoch, Juni 23rd, 2010
helsinki tallinn soodla river (estonia)
61,5km 226 alti meter
rainy morning in helsinki. on the ferry we met 3 cyclists from canada who are also on the way south. after riding through the old town of tallinn we rode east. or originally planed route over the saaremaa island was not possible the way we wanted because the ferry on the south of the island is not operating at the moment.
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Samstag, Juni 12th, 2010
helsinki rest day
a rainy day after 2 sunny and warm days back in urope. riding around town and collecting some informations about the further route options.
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Donnerstag, Juni 10th, 2010
helsinki sightseeing
riding around town with markus along the shoreline to a very nice spot. great for a swimm and a nap afterwards.
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Dienstag, Juni 8th, 2010
beijing sightseeing
59km 168 alti meter
after 6.000km it was time for an oil change a new chain. we spent a relaxing afternoon in the park of the summer palast and on the way back we passed the nest olympic staduim.
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Sonntag, Juni 6th, 2010
beijing sightseeing
18km
back to the antik market panjiayuan where 90% of the goods are fake (as we have been told). the market opens at 4.30am on weekends so if there are any bargains they are long gone when the day trippers arrive.
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Sonntag, Juni 6th, 2010
bejing sightseeing
35km 81 alti meter
the park of the temple of heaven is a nice place to hang out and to watch the people practise kungfu, taichi, juggling, diabolo, dancing, singing
. or just walking backwards!? we passed the antik market panjiayuan and decided to come back tomorrow morning as there is just to much to see. in the evening we went to the red theater to see the legend of kungfu show. which was nice and touristy with playback voices in english and chinese subtitels on a screen.
the CCTV building
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a big group of chinese cyclists on the supported tour to shanghai
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Sonntag, Juni 6th, 2010
beijing badaling beijing
we took the bus to badaling which is about 70km north east of beijing to see the great wall there. although it is called the great wall, it was almost hard to see the wall because of the masses of tourists!? alex made some great crepes for dinner back at davids place.
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