Anything But Mainstream

Have been travelling quite a bit again during the last few weeks. Too many business trips, too little leisure time, too much travel by other means of transportation than by bike. But even under these non-leisure, non-biking circumstances, of course, my eyes have been...

Goethetour 2012 – Day Three

Three uphill races today: This really calls for some reward that should better be a good one. And, as it turned out, it was a great reward to have the last carb loading stop of the day right next to Niederwald Monument hovering above the Rhine, overlooking it towards...

Goethetour 2012 – Day Two

Day Two of this year’s Goethe tour had to take place without me… A crash on day 1 (lucky me has not been involved in) led to me passing day 2 not as a biker, but as a comforter and chauffeur to one of the spilled co-riders to get her stuff back together in...

Goethetour 2012 – Day one

Finally, after 2010 and 2011 not leaving enough time and energy to take part in the annual „Goethetour“, we rode over to the 2012 start/finish of the 4-day event in Bingen right at the banks of the river Rhine. Although sleeping high above the Rhine...

Mens sana in corpore sano

Two weeks in Mallorca could turn a bit dull even with a bike under your butt and a handful of good friends on your side, if there weren’t at least some mental stimuli by some cultural impressions. And mucho cultura there is on that island – although the...