good morning guys i'm leaving Berlin
i didn't want you to doubt me that i was in Berlin here's the Brandenburg's gate
i go there take a picture and quickly get out of Berlin
very very quickly there's some people taking pictures i'll have to photoshop them out
let's position myself and the bike in the most touristy way
why did they put this thing here, was it an accident or not?
let's try and go like this
hopefully the road is not blocked somewhere
so I left Berlin
but i have to cycle 170 kilometers today it's a pity that i don't have too much time
because it would have been fun to leave berlin and go through all these sandy forest
but it is what it is, i need to get to Nordkapp
sooner rather than later so today is august
23rd
so i think it's exactly three weeks since i left
since i left italy, since I left bergamo
and
my odometer is 1500 kilometers 1518 kilometers so today i'll be a but i think
i already had a 100 on so if i had 100 missing so in three weeks i did a little over 1500 kilometers
i think it's a good going
he put me well into two thousand kilometers per month
and uh yeah i think next month that should be a little bit more
and hopefully i'll be in Nordkapp by the end of the month by the end of september depending how
much time i rest into do cities if i can i will i will stop three days in copenhagen
and then
it's 100 kilometers missing and it's already 10 past 2 pm
so i have
six seven hours
to get to my host it's pretty windy
but i'm still keeping a good rhythm
most of the roads i've been doing are
like in the forest or sheltered by by trees for the most part and i can keep an average
of about 20 kilometers per hour give or take sometimes it'll be less sometimes a bit more
i was very slow to leave Berlin because there is always lots of turns, lots of traffic lights
look at these horses
it's my chance to take a break
it's ten past seven in the evening i did 148.5 kilometers
and i still have about 27 kilometers to go i think let me check
25 kilometers to go so i should get going because it's gonna
the sunset is in uh one hour and ten minutes
so let's keep going and yeah now i have a little hill
and hopefully i can make it there before it's dark it's very windy you cannot really trust google map
always always sending you in the worst places it mde me go through a private property
there was a big dog luckily i could enter one gate and also the following one it was not locked
but there was a big fecking mean dog
good morning guys i'm on the road it's half nine a bit late but
last night, well yesterday i did 175 kilometers and 800 meters i was pretty beaten i was staying with
a lovely couple a russian girl and her german husband they made a barbecue for me it was
really nice they waited until i arrived it was a quarter to nine was lovely and we had a nice
breakfast this morning so i spent a little bit more time
talking to them they were very curious they are couchsurfing hosts but they are also bike
trourers they didn't know about warmshowers so they're signing up on warmshowers so there are
there's a new warmshower host between berlin and lubeck more close to lubeck
so today I'll get to lubeck 140 kilometers so 30 kilometers less than yesterday 35
slightly shorter day which is good because yesterday was a bit much to be honest
and this area of germany is very windy there are windmills everywhere
so i guess it's not just these days but it's a general uh situation and hopefully i will
do some roads that are sheltered a bit from the wind like this one because i'm in between trees so
the wind i get is is minimal had a host arranged for lubeck but he has some problems he cannot
host me anymore so this morning i sent a few requests i didn't hear back from warmshowers hosts
i sent loads of couchsurfing requests i didn't hear back hopefully
i got a place to stay i wanted it to stay two nights, rest one day, if not i will just camp
before I get into lubeck and just continue and i might rest when i get to copenhagen
blackberry pit stop, look at this nice
i think i arrived to my destination to my host house in lubeck ,142
kilometer, and 80 800 meters so 143 plus 175 yesterday good good progress to Nordkapp
this is lubeck city center the old town very nice and charming very very touristy
super super cute now let's see if i can go around and around
modern vs old
lots of water water
i am leaving lubeck this morning as you can see there is the lion this one is sleeping that one is a bit more alert
and they guard the city
concordia domini foris pax
for the people that speaks latin and next stop is copenhagen i think i will go to
fehmarn island that i will take the bridge and then across the east denmark
get to copenhagen today is thursday thursday friday i think i'll be in copenhagen on saturday
Lubeck very charming city i think most of the buildings are from the
16th century if i'm not mistaken city centers some old buildings some are new because i
think this was the first city that was bombed in the second world war in germany
the city center is very charming it's basically an island so there's rivers around, very touristy
and very famous for these hot chocolate marzipan and sebastian one of my followers
told me this before i arrived he asked me where are you? I'm gonna get to lubeck tomorrow he said
you have you have to try the the chocolate marzipan chocolat marzipan
something like that and then he said maybe it's an expensive experience for
the kind of adventure you do so let me send you a donation so you can you can experience it and
he was really kind he made a donation so i went to the main square where there is the rathaus and
there is also like the the factory shop and i had a hot chocolate marzipan and i had a piece of cake
that's also a marzipan and it's a classic, they told me you have to try it
and so yeah thank you very much sebastian for this treat it was wonderful it was a very nice gesture
lunch is done and it's getting pretty dark
behind that hill like maybe 10 kilometers on the far side it's raining
i was on top of a hill and i could see the rain but it's only this big cloud if i can push it
five or six kilometers maybe 10 maximum
i should avoid this rain because that then there is nothing
it's clear very clear it's cloudy but it's not raining
let's see if i can go faster than the wind pushing the rain in this side
success guys i was able to avoid the shower and i got to this little town
on the coast, the seas here let me show you the baltic sea
there you go i brought you to the baltic sea let's see if i can turn the camera
they don't have umbrellas like in italy or in the mediterranean but they have these
little i don't know kind of huts
looks nice, looks very cold i will never ever ever ever ever come in vacation in a place
like this you have to be with your dawn jacket on the beach in august it's crazy crazy
why would anyone want to come in vacation here where you have so many places where it's nice and hot
mystery of life mystery of life
i have another 55 kilometers this afternoon and i will get to
the island where i spend the night i think there is a couple of warmshowers hosts and i contact one
ah no there is only one wamrshower host i contacted him that and he said
there shouldn't be any problem to crush this place
even if it rains this afternoon i have a dry place where i can spend the night
and that's enough for me
look at the flag straight in my face the wind that's where i'm going
that's the bridge i think that will take me to the island oh getting exhausted with this wind
i got to my warmshower host
it's morning and it's not raining last night prediction rain all morning
but my host told me that the the prediction here are not reliable because there is lots
of wind on the island and sometimes the clouds splits when they get to the island
so maybe for an hour or two there should be good weather and i think in 14 kilometers i finished
crossing the the island and i get a ferry to denmark it should be 45 minutes right i think
i've got company on the ferry
we are vip one