This is the short route of the second day of my bike ride in 2015 from Hamburg to the Schaalsee. The KML data was recorded and then manually corrected in Google Earth.
The route goes from Güster to right after Zarrentin, mostly alongside country roads. About 50% of the route has good bike trails.
Video:
Because of different activities, for example making good use of the few summer days in Germany, it was recently very quiet on our little video channel. I apologize explicitly for the wait.
The video
This is not a masterpiece of the AlionLive history. The reason for this is, that on the second day of the tour a phenomenon kicked in, that you already know from previous bike ride series: On the second day I'm always getting a bit tired. This was also because of the fact, that I selected a good camp for the night before from the "aesthetic" view, but rather not in terms of sleeping comfort. In addition, on the second day there was a nice headwind, which made it hard to get further quickly. So I made it just to just a bit further than Zarrentin. Nevertheless, also in this video there are some interesting and funny events and views. In particular, due to wild wind and hair, my appearance is often an amusing sight. We visit a goddess and even explore her valley slopes. What is that nonsense again? Well, just watch it yourself. There are also many beautiful and colorful flowers and at the end you can even see a funny calves ballet.
Of cause also this video contains lots of beautiful flowers.
The Soundtrack
Since the series so far already reminds me a lot of the 2012 bike to the Baltic Sea, I found it is a good idea to once again use the first album of the Willma Poppen Project. Yes, the new album will be released soon ;). The following tracks are in this video:
00:00 - Holy Arpeggiatorus
05:08 - Disco Bear
10:18 - Childhood Memories
15:16 - Poppin 'All Over The World
20:14 - Heroes of the Popp-Culture
Long hair, bike ride and strong winds: An amusing combination ;)
What's next?
In the next part we really get going. Promised! Due to the hyper environmentalism in the Biosphere Reserve Schaalsee, the ride on the eastern side of the lake is unexpectedly short. I managed to ride the entire east side before evening. But I will tell you more about that, as soon as the video is released.
Madeira?
Yes, I know: YOU want the 2014 Madeira series to finally go on and you also want, that we finally get started with the 2015 series. Unfortunately, the Willma Poppen album must be completed prior to the upload of the next Madeira video. Yes, I stick to that plan! Anything else would be unacceptable. Since the delay meanwhile is already getting on my nerves too, I'll put the pedal to the metal a bit more now and give this task some more priority. It is therefore just a matter of some years... Of course this is nonsense! I would say: Soon, very soon.
Nice sundown at my second camp near Zarrentin.
You do not react on comments!
Well, for some unknown reason, my internet hoster trashed the forwarding of the address alionlive-at-alionmind.com, via which I receive notifications about the AlionLive channel. So I had to find out that unusually many comments were made on the channel lately, and I was not notified. And what I do not know, I can't answer. I fixed that now. So: It's not that I do not care about your comments. On the contrary!
Well, now have lots of fun with the video. And as I said: In the next video, we really get going!
As mentioned in the last blog post, I went on a little bike ride in June again. And almost one month after the bike ride, we now finally get going! The plot and stuff
Due to technical complications ... Awww!... I just dawdled, I got on the road late in the afternoon. However, I made it to just before Güster, almost 50 kilometers from Hamburg. I have no idea why I did do this to me on the first day and, as you will see in the next part, it would have been better if I didn't do it. Then this part also would have been maybe not so short. But after all it fills, including nearly 50% of talk, almost the targeted 20 minutes. Still, I would have liked to have filmed more, but this was prevented by me "eating kilometers". Still there are very beautiful landscape views. A highlight here was the impressive Mansion of Wotersen. It was probably the most detailed filmed of all the places I filmed during the whole tour. At the end of this part it was, as the title of the video ("To Güster, and then it gets dark") says, very dark near Güster. And so this part ends with very dark impressions of my night camp, including a not really perfectly set up tent.
The impressive Mainson of Wotersen. I just thought, that this would be the perfect residence for the Chaoslord ;)
The Soundtrack
Due to lack of new sound material, I had to resort to older stuff again. However, the 4 tracks (that could be heard already in some AlionLive videos) from the alionsonny album "Reggae?" fit very good with the visual material. Here is the soundtrack in detail:
00:00 - Summertime 2008
04:26 - Hamburg
09:56 - Travelling Lion
14:26 - Springtime 2009
If you like the music, and you do not already have bought the album, I would be very happy if you would support me a bit by buying it. No, I'm still not wealthy ;). Representing all online stores where the album is available, I put links here to the album on iTunes (CLICK!) and Google Play (CLICK!), because from sales there I get a bigger part than anywhere else ;).
A bit older (2010), but still fresh: alionsonny - Reggae?
What's next
So first I can say that this series will most likely have 5 parts. This is due to the fact, that I "magically" filmed about 20 to 30 minutes on each of the 5 days. Perfect! In the next part we ride from Güster on towards Zarrentin, where we arrive quite late. Due to technical problems regarding my body, I did ride less than usually on that day. That's all I want to tell now about the next part, which is already in progress, for "tension reasons".
Somewhere right in the middle of nowhere.
And what about Madeira?
Let's put it this way: It's slowly but surely progressing. The work on the Willma Poppen album is still quite extensive and has priority. Some peculiarities and the double length of the video delay the completion also. The main obstacle is, that I talk a lot in this video, which is causing an enormous amount of my always loved writing of subtitles. Well, man is his own worst enemy by the work he creates for himself and which would actually not be really necessary ;).
At the end of this part, in Güster, it went really dark. Good night!
Well, now have fun with the video! I know: It's not a highlight in AlionLive history, however, and I can already tell this, from Part 3 on we really get going!
