and this is Jenni
my warmshowers host my lovely warm shower host for the end of the year and the start of the new one
happy 2022 2022 yeah safe travels thank you very much let's hit the road
january 1st 2022 happy new year guys i wish you the very best for you for your families
and make 2022 the best year yet
i started very well cycling, bike traveling bike life what a great way to start the year
with lovely hosts and get to other lovely hosts i guess in
here in germany
and nice riding through the forest i think i'll hit some dirt later
oh man it starts raining
hello
let's see if it stops otherwise i put my rain gear on
it stopped raining but the bad news is
i thought it was a trail in the forest but it looks like a paved road
so yeah bummer i should have navigated on a different route
but i see like a carpark down there maybe it's paved till there and then it becomes a dirt road
the moment of truth let's see it looks like it's a paved trail
we should stop paving shit in nature
so this morning we are in a special warmshowers host thorsten
we are in a co-housing project - yeah what's a co-housing project? can you explain it to
the people that don't know what it is - in a few words, i guess, we're about
20 something people and lots of kids living together 32 with the kids yeah
and we bought the house together through a co-op with the idea of having some kind
of community living together thinking about how we want to live how we want to arrange things
of course it's not tidied up - no worries I was away on a journey
oh very nice and beautiful yeah with the piano wow nice very nice
so it's a different way of living where there are many people living together sharing loads of spaces
you have your private rooms but you share the kitchen you share everything else basically
that depends yeah some people share the kitchen like in a flat share some people
have their own kitchen depending on preferences and what's available but yeah i guess the thing
is that everybody wants to live together it's not like just having a cheap place to stay or
coincidentally living together but with the idea that you want to have a community and good people
to come home too - yeah i i was here last night unfortunately i can stay only one night because i
have a commitment i was offered to stay longer and i would have liked and enjoyed to stay a little bit
longer and learn a little bit this dynamic of the co-housing because I found it very interesting
last night we had a long conversation about this how they organize the day-to-day life how they
resolve the conflicts and and the issues that could arise of many people living together
and i was shown around the whole house where they have the storage room the laundry room and the
communal areas it's really interesting and it seems like a very good way of living
although i think it requires loads of effort that everybody has to put in to make it work
yeah right it's not too much but yeah you have people willing to make some effort to organize
just how to deal with conflicts organize things organize projects whatever you want to
do yeah so yeah you have to want to invest this time if you just want to live there and not
to care about this that's not working one special thing about conflicts i think
it's astonishing that there are not so many conflicts - okay - and i always thought about
how does it work that there are not so many conflicts and i don't know okay it's just
it works - it's just good people living here so they get along very well so thank you very much
for the hospitality thank you to thorsten to be on warmshowers and be part of our
traveling community which is also a co-housing in some form well yeah and i've stayed with so many hosts on
my own trip so yeah it's always great to give back again i think that's i feel like
it's more important even now that you feel like you've been hosted by so many good people so
always super happy to have guests again yeah it's time to hit the road guys
january 2nd i left the co-housing project and i'm hitting the road
second day of the year second day on the road it's good it's good
today's gonna rain the whole day
but
we're on the road so that's pretty good
i'll do some dirt this morning and then mostly paved roads i think because
it's gonna rain a lot in the afternoon and then it becomes a bit too stressful to be all
day pn dirt i need to do 120 kilometers today and I will have to cycle a few hours into the darkness
into the night so yeah we'll see a little bit of dirt this morning for the soul
maybe a little bit of paved roads later to make some progress towards my destination Perleberg
where i'll be staying for a week i think i'll be house sitting for one of my hosts
from this summer that is gonna leave and need someone that looks after her cat
and yeah be there taking care of the cat and the house while she's on vacation
I just stopped for a lunch break it's a light rain, it starts to be windy
pretty windy when you're outside the trees
50 kilometers in the bag
still 70 to go
a long day under this rain
that's a quiet day, sunday january 2nd so in germany on sunday everything is closed
all the shops all the supermarkets all the grocery stores all the shopping centers
you find only some takeaways open or the stores at the gas station
that's it everything else it's fully closed on sunday
now this road is quite muddy slow, pretty slow it's gonna be i think 20 kilometers so yeah
not the best
not sure exactly what it is it looks like beet
sugar beet
kilometers and kilometers of these so i think last year they harvested
and they didn't sell them but left them on the side for some reason
look at the little hills let me stop here so you can see
i don't know exactly what it is they're really big and heavy
i don't know this is the beets that are used to make sugar i don't know
i don't know what they will do because those piles that will take several years to decompose
mystery german mystery to be honest not just in germany i saw the same in poland and in lithuania
maybe the market for this vegetable was totally fucked easier to leave them on the sides
i'm about 30 kilometers from Perleberg and it's sunset in one minute
and it's very windy
not so much here in the village maybe but
i did a stretch in the fields and it was super windy
and getting tired
Perleberg 31 kilometers the signpost says