Archive for August, 2010

Okay, we managed to reach Hannover. And how…

We woke up around 10 minutes after we went to bed. Why? Well, victors Soja milk was leaking and it spilled over Joost´bed. He learnt us a lot of new swear-words in a very small time.

After that we went to Hannover, we had a great speed and there was only rain during breaks. Awesome timing o mighty Gods of ze weather!

Here in Hannover we are staying with Sybille. A very nice young woman who offered 2 rooms to us. Yes we took ‘m.

The mood is good, we’re doing lot’s of kilometers and the spirrits are high. Let’s go further tomorrow!

More hills, more downhills, more people to meet and more villages and stuff to see.

Cheers!

Hey guys, after a long and very heavy trip we can finally reach you guys again..

Location after day 2: Bad Essen. Food is okay though.

After a very nice  start with some hills and stuff we managed to enter Germany. Around 9:30 we started looking for a place to sleep. We decided to ask a farmer if we could stay on his ground. It appeared to be one nice lady who gave us access to a local bar. We played cards, had fun, and made our beds. So we actually had a roof!

The day after was even heavier. We had the thoughest climb in our personal tour but we made it. After that we had several other climbs. Heavy to go up, awesome to go down.

We also set a new speed record. While Joost and Vic were going  down effortless, I was breaking heavily while still overtaking them lol. I didnt break my previous record of 65km h since I still have to get used to the bike, but 64 will do for now. Joost and Vic also did about 60 km h. Joost was verz excited and that made me happy.

In some very small village we asked a lady if we could place our tents in the garden. This is 10 meters in front of a supermarket wich opens at 7. PERFECT!

While setting up our campsite the woman came to us and gave us beer. Awesome! Not healthy but let´s be honnest: WHO CARES!??

Oh I just  found the ß at my keyboard.

Anyway, the days fly by and I cant wait to get on my bike. Yesterday eve and this morning my muscles were quite in a bad shape. Also for the others. But now… it feels great!

The morale is great and we’re having a great time. We didn’t take a lot of pictures so far since I didnt bring my EOS, but DO expect a full length movie haha!

Challenges

Oh yes, challenges. Yesterday we couldnt make the first challenge. But admit: finding a local specialität in the Niederlande is quite difficult. Yup. Today we found a restaurant who served a speciale frikandelle. So we took it and it was quite okay!

Also we managed to find 2 Germans who said in front of the cam “De kat krabt de krullen van de trap”, LOL nice one! One to go!!

So, thats it. And THANKS for the mails and comments, VERY appreciated!!!!

-Us.

okay we’re now in Apeldoorn enjoying our lunch. We had a great start but had some problems uphill, we didnt expect this. Downhill was great fun and eventhough im packed i did 60.5 km/h and overtook some other cyclists on professional bicycles.

Off to germany!