Bad news: Because of a combination of a carelessness on my part and technical shit, the long announced episode "Fear & Loathing in Camara de Lobos" will not be uploaded. I don't want to write more here, because I said everything in the video below. Why a video about this? Well, I didn't find it to be "fitting", to just write a blog about it. My handful of viewers deserve better.
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:
This is the route of the second video part of my bike ride in 2013 from Hamburg to Mölln and Ratzeburg. I created this KML manually right after my return from memory (which works excellent ;) ) in Google Earth, because at the time I had no GPS device. Due to the fact that I went no special side routes and rode this route several times during the recent years, errors are almost completely impossible.
After a rest in Lütjensee, the route goes via small country roads (some of them in bad condition at the time) through fields and forests to the town entrance of Mölln. The route is quite easy to ride, but narrow roads, the lack of cycling tracks, a bit of traffic and road damage makes it sometimes a bit tricky. The times of the markers in the KML relate to time positions in the video linked below.
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!
This is the route of the first video part of my bike ride in 2013 from Hamburg to Mölln and Ratzeburg. I created this KML manually right after my return from memory (which works excellent ;) ) in Google Earth, because at the time I had no GPS device. Due to the fact that I went no special side routes and rode this route several times during the recent years, errors are almost completely impossible.
After I left Hamburg successfully, the route goes through the nature reserve Höltigbaum, and after Braak on a well-constructed bike path, running parallel to the country road. For about the last half of the route it goes on on a really great long distance cycle track through meadows and forests. The times of the markers in the KML relate to time positions in the video linked below.
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This is a hiking trail, which I, after a gone-wrong ascent to the Penha d' Aguia, composed out of several route decriptions and publicly available KMLs from the Internet. The trail goes from Moinhos (easily accessible by car or bus) on the easiest way up to the Penha d' Aguia. I never hiked that route myself, so I take no reponsibility for the correctness of the route, but I can assure you, that I have done my best.
Length of route: 44,3 Km Altitude lowest: 17 m Altitude highest: 51 m Max. ascent: 3,7% Avg. ascent: 0,3%
This is the route of the first day (June 7th 2015) of my bike ride from Hamburg to the Schaalsee in 2015. The route is mostly small country roads and contains no major ascents or descents.
