Bike packing in the northern-most state of Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein, means not only home-coming and relishing in old-time memories, revisiting childhood places and reliving experiences of decades past; foremost and most importantly, it means: tranquility in...
Although the current exhibition on historic bikes and bicycle history in Hamburg has found its home at the „Labour Museum“ (Museum der Arbeit), strolling through it is a real pleasure – no work at all, all play. And a lot of eye-openers with respect...
It’s only a week that I have been back from a 4-day trip to Hamburg, for riding the Cyclassics (which may turn out to be the only bike or biking connection of this post, in the end). And already there is a big Ken Kesey-like notion again, a longing for this very...
The Hamburg Cyclassics 2013 pre-hype has not even started (i.e. the cycle exhibition booths are still being put up), when I had my first personal hype already: Strolling over Jungfernstieg, taking in all those labels, logos and names that have been at the exhibit each...
Today’s ride felt like riding in my Northern home: Bright and wide seas with heavy waves. Strong winds. Huge ships. Only that the ships were the clouds sailing the skies, and underneath the bright green waves were the grainfields waving in the winds. But who...
