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Tours - Anger 130 km
There are towns that I just don't like, like Tours, the shithole, and then there are towns that I fall in love with immediately, like...
Ralph
Jul 23, 20242 min read
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Beaugency - Tours 100 km
The second day again. Tough, headwind and mimimieeee anyway. A glance at the map told me that I still had 5 days for 350 km and somehow I...
Ralph
Jul 22, 20242 min read
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Paris - Beaugency 140 km
It wasn't as easy as the title suggests, so let's start from the beginning. After a year without two consecutive vacation days and many...
Ralph
Jul 21, 20243 min read
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Moin, Moin (Hamburg via Bremen to Osnabrück approx. 300 km and 2 days headwind)
Hamburg my pearl, oh I love this city. This cheerful Moin, I HAVE MISSED IT. I once worked/lived here for a few months. Back in 2005, in...
Ralph
Jun 9, 20247 min read
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BeNe-without Lux 450 km Paradise and Germany
I haven't written anything in my public diary for a long time, I just realized. That's the way it is when you lead a boring life. Not at...
Ralph
May 28, 20244 min read
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Day 5 Heideberg - Weinheim 50 km
And 1500 meters of altitude. Instead of packing my bags in the morning and getting on my bike, I took the S-Bahn to the old town. Then on...
Ralph
Jul 27, 20233 min read
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Day 4 Leinweiler - Heidelberg 150 km
And 2500 meters of altitude. Spending a night in a decent bed instead of a tent works wonders for recovery. I was really in a good mood...
Ralph
Jul 25, 20233 min read
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Day 3 Löwenstein - Leinweiler 100 km
And again 1500 meters of altitude. This morning was first climbing announced, after 2 km first 200 meters of altitude. Hello awake, there...
Ralph
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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Heidelberg - Lake Breitenau 110 km
And 1500 meters of altitude. First of all, I have to complain today first, so great the campsite was, my tent neighbor snores, all night,...
Ralph
Jul 23, 20233 min read
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Day 1 Ludwigshafen - Heidelberg 85 km
And 2000 meters of altitude. As the crow flies, that's more like 20 km, right. But not if you take the Odenwald and indeed the super...
Ralph
Jul 22, 20232 min read
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Day 6 Ettenheim - Speyer 154 km
And rather minus altitude meters. Actually, this could have gone on all day, through to Wiesbaden. Shortly I thought about it, but I have...
Ralph
Jul 11, 20232 min read
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Day 5 Schluchsee - Ettenheim 90 km
And scarcely 1500 meters of altitude. This morning at 5 o'clock I was awakened by thunder, quickly ran across the campsite to the toilet...
Ralph
Jul 10, 20232 min read
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Day 4 Tittisee-Neustadt - Schluchsee 70 km
And about 2500 meters of altitude. On the map the two campsites are about 12 km apart, so what did I do in the meantime? Of course coffee...
Ralph
Jul 9, 20232 min read
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Day 3 Simonswald - Tittisee Neustadt 76 km
And fabulous 3195 meters of altitude. The program of this morning I already knew, I thought. My memory was different, the reality looked...
Ralph
Jul 8, 20233 min read
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Day 2 Near Forbach - Near Simonswald 110 km
Day 2 Near Forbach - Near Simonswald 110 km And again 2000 meters of altitude :D. What a day, really nice weather. So first thing in the...
Ralph
Jul 7, 20233 min read
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Day 1 Karlsruhe - near Forbach 80 km
And unbelievable 2009 meters of altitude. Why not more kilometers? Well this morning at six the alarm clock rang and I took the liberty...
Ralph
Jul 6, 20233 min read
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End of terrain
And then everything had to happen quickly. In the morning I realized that it no longer made sense. The amount of painkillers I needed to...
Ralph
Jun 27, 20232 min read
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Day 7 Gein - Beaugency 115 km
=> english on tour, not good, really not, not better even on antibiotic <= Every meter was hard fought today. That's how it felt to me....
Ralph
Jun 26, 20232 min read
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Day 6 Decize - Gien 160 km
=> as usual the english is not the best on Tour <= It didn't seem that much to me today, I was thinking about other things. And yes, it...
Ralph
Jun 25, 20232 min read
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Day 5 Chagny - Decize 170 km
=> tired dinglish, I apologize for that, after 10 hours on the bike <= Since I let it run today, at times up to 40 degrees, in the sun....
Ralph
Jun 24, 20232 min read
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