Let me just add some random pictures from the journey to Berlin.
- Couchsurfing.org is something really cool, and I have tried it for my first times. You arrange on Internet to stay at people’s places for free. 5 different Couchsurfers have now been kind enough to receive me. The image above is from yesterday’s dinner in Teterow, 50km from Rostock. Stefan builds wooden houses, and this one is his own.
- Waiting for the ferry from Gedser (Denmark) to Rostock (Germany). Everyone was of course jealous of my bike.
- Here I pitched my tent close to the shore of Gransee – a seemingly nice little lake in the countryside of Germany. Unfortunately an angry german came shouting at me when I was about to sleep:
Angry german: “Junge mann!!!”.. (Young man)
Me: “Ja” (Ja)
Angry german: “Diese is private marken!!” (This is private land!!)Then he told me that they were hunting there “mit gevär” (with rifle?) but after some begging he let me sleep at the other side of the grass field. I think he just wanted to scare me off a little bit, which he succeeded with quite well. But after a long day on the bicycle I managed to fall asleep quite nicely.
- A meal I was cooking with my portable kitchen
Pasta and fried sausages are good. - What comes in has to come out as well. When I´m not using the toilets of the Couchsurfers, I can nowdays connect pretty well to the nature.
- Something I might confess is that a standing part of my morning ritual is to lubricate some vaccelin to prevent undesired friction.
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Here you can find a map of my journey sofar.
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To sum up the trip sofar, cycling is actually never boring, and Couchsurfing seldom makes you feel lonely (except for when germans are shouting at you). Lets see what happens when entering Czech Republic and other East European countries.
