It’s snowing onto my tent. I’m opening the zipper and gaze into a low evening sun, yet thin frozen water-crystals blow into my face. Its the end of May and I’m at 850m. The place is called Beitostølen, a ski resort at the southern edge of the Jotunheimen Nasjonalpark. I’ve been here for many hours already. The bad weather conditions didn’t allow me to continue, so I’m waiting for the next day, to take a…
A little photo overview of the journey so far. [Show slideshow]
Out of Gothenburg, southern winds were blowing strong, pushing us away from the busy city back into the beloved countryside. With these tailwinds an easy day lay in front of us and much earlier than expected we reached our target of 80 km. So we decided to do a little more and eventually came onto a fairly busy road. A lot of rubbish was lying to the sides and we soon noticed that there were…
On Tuesday, 28th, Simon and I finally left Berlin and started the first part of our journey towards Copenhagen. Out of the busy streets of Berlin, the well marked long-distance cycle route quickly led us away from the traffic, through the dense woods of Brandenburg, along the Havel canal, through pittoresque villages and the many bright yellow rapeseed fields of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. We got fairly lucky with the weather and so we advanced quickly, did the…