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3 days ago
Day 7
I wake up 20 minutes before the alarm clock. It's just cool enough that I could crawl back into my sleeping bag. Instead, I pack up. Luxury vacation!
At 6:22 we are on the bike, record start. In the first village, I guide M. past, who smells coffee (we can't stop now!). In Cercy-la-Tour there is
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4 days ago
Day 5
A Plan B is needed. The heat is not expected to get any better, and this is only half a vacation, with the forced kilometers in the morning. It feels like we've already been traveling for three weeks, with all the shades of heat we've experienced, all the encounters, and the thoughts in the back
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4 days ago
Day 4
By now, the alarm clock rings at 5:45. In the morning, you think, that's doable, you'll just sleep the whole afternoon. In the evening, you lie groaning in your tent, waiting for a cooling breeze.
At least I'm managing the packing well. I always thought it would be terrible to have to take everything
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Day 3
This time we are on our bikes at 7:11. Our bakery has won a prize for its brioche. M. only tells me this when we are already outside.
We cross the Saône. In Sennecy Le Grand, M. wants to go to the supermarket. I would prefer not to stop until it gets hot. But we have to eat something. And anyway
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June 18, 2026
The altitude meters feel correct, other sources state only half as much. ;)
35* Heatwave kills
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4 days ago
In search of bike parking spots up to Lausanne (without having to change trains three times with the heavy bikes), I somehow manage to overlook that we might also like to lie down in the train at night. It only occurs to me as we leave Berlin in a full compartment. The whole night? Phew.
In Leipzig, however
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May 31, 2026
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June 2, 2026
How does a cargo bike get from Berlin to Hamburg if it doesn't fit on the train?
Take a second, equally sized female cyclist with her road bike and swap diligently along the way :-)
I'm not (haven't been so far) into cargo bikes, but this was too tempting, of course.
The entire process exceeds the scope
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May 30, 2026
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June 2, 2026
For the second time a FLINTA* brevet at the Berlin-Brandenburg brevet location. I would have liked more photos, but after the start organisation and the hustle and bustle around it, I was just happy to finally be on the route, and had probably also seen them too often in recent weeks.
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- the
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Takeshi went cycling
May 9, 2026
Das ARA-BB 400er Brevet zum falschen Rom
An dem einen Wochenende 300 Kilometer noch zu weit finden für den aktuellen Körper( und Geistes)zustand, um sich am nächsten Wochenende kurzerhand ins 400er Brevet reinzusneaken – wer kennt’s nicht?!
Aber es sollte nach Rom gehen, und das ist die beste Stadt der Welt, seit ich da mal „gelebt“ habe…
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May 10, 2026
Super performance and the pictures are super beautiful !!!
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Takeshi went cycling
May 1, 2026
Hamburg - Berlin, statt Flèche
Der Fluch des Flèche Allemagne: Beim ersten Mal war das Volk krank, beim zweiten Mal ich, beim dritten Mal mein Team. Da ich aber nun in Hamburg verabredet bin, fahre ich eben von dort direkt nach Hause, das wollte ich schon lange mal, Südwestwind egal...
Der Langstrecken-Rhythmus ist weg: Die…
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May 3, 2026
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Takeshi went cycling
September 27, 2025
200er ARA-BB-Abschlussbrevet nach Lindow, Fürstenberg, Lychen und Templin
Das letzte (offizelle) Brevet des Jahres bei Goldherbst-Sonnenschein.
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- Der freundliche Unbekannte, mit dem sich bis zur ersten Kontrolle so perfekt zusammenarbeiten ließ, und der auch wusste, dass man vor zehn Uhr noch nicht so viel sprechen muss.
- Die schönen, verlassenen Fahrradsträsschen zwischen Lindow und Templin
- Endlich…
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September 29, 2025
After three years of vacation in the Uckermark, very familiar place names ❤️
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2 days ago
Day 8
The canal cyclists are in a class of their own again. There are the old ones (me: AREN'T they older than us? M: Well…) with their inconspicuous touring bikes and super light deck chairs, busy repacking and washing things. And then there are the young ones, colorful cycling jerseys, maximum butt
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