After 12 days #cycling from Basel to the very eastern point of #Switzerland 🇨🇭 (643km) and pushing our bikes over the mountains we left the country via the green border. Suddenly we stood in a new country. It was a very short visit in #Austria 🇦🇹. Approximately 2hours and exactly 10km later, after the #Reschenpass we entered country nr. 17: #Italy 😎 🇮🇹
#cyclingeurope #cyclingtheworld

Our #odometer showed us the funny number 12345 🤓
#schnapszahl
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🇮🇪 #Ireland #rewiev

9 days (4 cycling-days, 5 rest-days 😇) 222km

- well-signed #EuroVelo
- very friendly people
- tasty strawberries, blueberrys, black currants...
- caramelized onion
- oats instead of wheat in most products (great for us)
- large villas and single-family homes resembling catalog houses scattered throughout the countryside
- very green
- rainy, wet and even cold in summer

#Route:
Rosslare -> Woodstown -> Waterford-> Dungarvan -> Midleton

#cyclingtheworld #BikeTooter

Route: Poole -> Dorchester -> Colyton -> Exeter -> Chagford -> Tavystock -> Okehampton -> Barnstape -> Tenby -> Pembroke

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🇬🇧 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #southengland & #wales #review

9 days 383km

Super friendly and helpful people.
Lots of cows, sheep and horses.
Tall hedges, we mostly only saw the narrow street and those very same green hedges.
Even in June it was so cold and wet that we wore warm jackets under our rain gear.
Very hard to find #drinkingwater.
Many #glutenfree and #vegan products available.
Even if the country is on the pricier side, bicycle spares are quite affordable.

#cyclingtheworld #travel #england

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#schnapszahl
#odo
#11111km
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At #Barnstaple we decided to skip the hedges and take the train to #Wales via #Cardiff (where we met a sympathetic cycling couple and had a nice chat together) to #Tenby.

Taking the bikes on the train was no problem. Btw. trains here roll on diesel.
Whilst the 7.5h journey we watched the green nature through the window and tried to plan the next few steps.

#cycling #cyclingtheworld #BikeTooter #unitedkingdom

Exploring #Salamanca for one day without our beloved #bikes was nice. We strolled through the old city with the impressive cathedrals, the 'casa de las conchas' and near the plaza mayor we enjoyed chocolate croissants at the #glutenfree pastry shop 'Celi&Co' 🥰

#cyclingtheworld #nomadlife

hola #espania 🤩
heading to salamanca...
#cyclingtheworld #cycling #BikeTooter
#nomadlife #spain

Some more photos of the climb to the highest point of Portugal mainland, the Torre...

#cycling #bikepacking #BikeTooter #cyclingtheworld
#SerraEstrela #portugal
#nature #landscape

the next day it was cloudy and rainy.
we pedaled only some km north. somewhere at the bottom of a hill we left the bikes and took a very narrow footpath through high blooming bushes to explore a nice cave. its always the none touristic sites which fullfill us. 🤩

#cyclingtheworld #nature #hiking

#schnapszahl of the day 🥳

#od #odometer
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exhausted of #westafrica and its neverending demanding people we decided to take a flight from Conakry to Casablanca, a bus to Tanger and the ferry to Tarifa. the 5000km which we cycled south the last 4 months we now rushed back north within 32 hours.

we are so incredibly happy to be back!

within no time we shared good moments with good people, thank you Detlef, thank you Jens for the inspiring conversations.

#cyclingtheworld #travel

sometimes you have to throw all the principles out the window and change the plan.

its all about "sharing good moments with good people"

#staytuned #cyclingtheworld

some of our last #wildcamping spots...

#traveling #travelingtheworld
#cycling #cyclingtheworld

from Mamou direction #Conakry the streets are mostly new (made by chinese) but very very dusty. the landscape changes from the vivid green dense jungle to more and more deforested and burned down area. it is a pity to see how the forest is disappearing here too. for us (and all the animals, cows, shees, goats out there) its quite dificult to find shade to rest during midday.

#guinea #africa
#cyclingtheworld

after daily experiences with the many children, we fled sone km further into what seemed to us a quiet area. we needed time to process all the experiences here in #guinea and #westafrica. we rested, red each other from the book 'the divide', #pushbikegirl's blog, phoned with family an friends and discussed a lot.

questions like:
why are we here? what were our expectations? what do we want? what are our next steps?

#cyclingtheworld #BikeTooter

half a year on the road now!

its not always just fun, it welds the relationship together, but also pulls at the nerves way over the known limits.

with all the ups and downs,
with all the struggles and successes,
we keep on beeing
#nomads #cyclingtheworld

#schnapszahl 😎
#odo
#odometer
#cyclingtheworld
#traveling

12.03.23

so far we didn't capture wildlife in guinea.
the only thing which really scares us are hundreds of schoolkids running after us shouting for money. when the whole crowd starts to run and we pedal as hard as we can, with gears and chain full of dust, it feels very strange.
sadly, this problem is caused by #ngo

#biketooter
#cyclingtheworld
#guinea #africa