A bikers‘ outdoors home

A bikers‘ outdoors home

Found the Dutch counterpart of this highly pleasant bikers‘ oasis in the Taunus woods of Germany: So-called BosHalte in Amsterdam. „Bos“ means „woods“, and „halte“ is the „rest stop“ or the „station“...
Enjoy Sights, Smells and Sounds of This Special Season

Enjoy Sights, Smells and Sounds of This Special Season

Riding through the hills and looking at the woods beyond underscores it yet one more time: Indian Summer has nothing to do with India (duh), nor with the US or Canadian Indians; or thereabouts. Indian Summer should actually be named German Fall, as over here are all...
Special Olympics, Olympic specialties

Special Olympics, Olympic specialties

Learned a lot during my tour of Berlin’s stadium built for the infamous Olympic games in 1936. To start with what I learned on the stadion itself, in slight correction of the very first sentence of this post: The Olympic Stadium was indeed erected for the 1936...
Bike Capital

Bike Capital

Quite some time has passed since the last blog entry has been posted here. And the blogger has, meanwhile, taveled back from from the US capital to its German counterpart. Not a particularly bad place for bikers either. Actually pretty popular with bicylce fans of all...
Heat Wave

Heat Wave

Another heat wave here in Germany. In search of alternatives to biking, find a shady place to lay down, start a big fan flowing into your direction and do some passive biking such as watching this: Or maybe this is a good day for doing some re-reading of old blog...