Bavaria and surroundings

Hi,
going south now. Today Napapiiri - Kemi (there the ice hotel is locatet) - Oulu - to Raahe , a nice, small town at the Baltic sea.
have fun
Andreas

Bike day,
15°C, Raahe - Oulu - Raahe.
Was a beautiful ride along the Baltic Sea. Oulu, biggest town in the north. Saw cranes starting their way to the south. (Like us)
Have fun

Raahe - Vaasa
Transferride along the Baltic Sea to Vaasa

Boy alot of those places sure look empty. Is the COVID an issue in those parts or is it pretty lax? Sure looks beautiful! Prosst!

Hm, Finnland is huge and has "only" 5 million inhabitants. One reason why we choose it for this tour. You can stay alone for weeks if you want, or visit big cities and meet a lot of people.
Finnland closed the border for some countries- we do not see much foreigners, mostly Germans and Estonians.
Today at this one beautiful beach it was really full (for Finnland) ;-)
We enjoy this quietness in Finnland a lot.
A kind of detoxing and slow down.
Very nice at all.

Vaasa - Archipelago - Vaasa
Wow, just wow today.
Island hopping, great views.
First some pics from yesterday's walk downtown.

Vaasa - Pori - Rauma - Uusikaupunki
More south today, at a fantastic sand beach at Yyteri, near Pori and WHO heritage Rauma and its old wood houses.

Uusikaupunki - Turku - Uusikaupunki
Last day on bike ( if we don't use it tomorrow afternoon in Helsinki).
Nice day with a lot island-hopping near Turku.
Ferry back home comes closer and closer. Wish we could stay some.more weeks.
Andreas

Uusikaupunki - Helsinki

In a few hours we enter the ferry to Travemünde and we will be offline the next 30h. Sleep in Lübeck and than a long 900km ride on German highway back home.

Have fun
Andreas

Leaving Finland. :-(

Travemünde, back in Germany

Back home after a long day on german autobahn


rain at the beginning in Northgermany


passing Berlin


Ausfahrt Lederhose, funny for Bavarians


back to a lot of traffic - near Leipzig


Bayern München Stadium in red this night


Penzberg


keep walking in my shoes


a 911 km day

Nice trip

Naaajaaa...echt 1 A ! (Say it with a schwabische dialekt)

Hi all,
did some work with my "epic" rides and collected all in this thread last week. (from Germany to ...)

So - back from Finnland - had a ride last weekend with Michi again. First idea was into Salzburg-area, but ...

Here the map of the tour:


the profile:


as Michi lives in Landshut we decided to meet at Rosenheim. So get up early, on the bike to Tölz, Irschenberg, Bad Aibling and on to the Meetingpoint near Rosenheim. (a 1h ride).
We both saw a lot of traffic on the roads, so we dropped Salzburg and went on small roads to Kufstein.

There we went direction Kaiserklamm. - and here are the pics.


Castle at Marienstein


Old houses - new (solar) technic.


the river at Kaiserklamm near Brandenberg


part of the "Klamm"

As Michi never was in this area - we decided to take the "Zillertaler Hochalpenstraße". So on we go.


Zillertal in the Background. Short breack some km after the toll-station.


other direction


little river nearby - icecold


steeply down after the edge


Zillertal ski-area is here


it's a small road.


nice views all the time


big river in the valley.


Michi enjoys the views


the road we came along


cross


impressive view down


to the end of the Zillertal


overview


the next some km


a guided group from Switzerland arrived. They wanted to be in the Pyrenees in this days. Thanks to Covid - they ride here some days.


back in the valley - and up Gerlos pass road. A short break (and a i8 BMW)


view from the rest place


way to Mittersill - National park hohe Tauern.


nice
so we passed Kitzbuehl and back to Kufstein. Here we separeted. Michi went to the highway to reach home, Me up to Bayrischzell


Wendelstein Cable parking


Wendelstein summit in evening light


sunset near Waakirchen - 30 km to go.

so reached home some min later in dark. Was a nice tour.

to be continued....
have fun

Andreas

Just now caught up with your pics from Finland! Glad you had a good time and good weather (for the most part). You saw a lot of nice places, but there is a lot more to discover. Thanks for the pics!

Yes - we missed Tampere this time (and Jyväskylä, Kuusamo, Inari and most of the north behind the arctic circle). 3 weeks is a short time to visit Suomi from Saksa.
It was my 4th time in Finland - Tina's 3rd.
My first was - 6 months in Kuopio in 1999. (Xchange Student)
second with Tina on AfricaTwin - Aland - Lathi - Puumala - Kuopio - Suomussalmi - Luosto - Inari - Nordkapp - Sweden - Norway - Denmark in 2000
3rd with car - SemiMarathon Kuopio in 2010
4th this summer with car and bike.
next - hope sooner.

have fun
P.S. More pics to come in my "epic rides - from germany to ... " report

Hi all
next tour - nothing special - yesterday the weather was very good - after a lot of rain and ...
SNOW
jep - first snow in the alps - down to 1500 m - up to 70cm high.

so let's see...

the map


and the profile


As Tyrol was declared to Covid risk area this weekend - i couldn't go into the alps without risk of being sent into quarantine. So i decided to explore more small roads at Allgäu.


on the way to "Hohenpeißenberg" - first view of the fresh fallen snow.


direction Karwendel


direct. Garmisch/ Zugspitze


near Berg - a young man died here in 2003 - age 23


view to space station Raisting.


other side - a cool place to relax and to enjoy (the silence) the view.


behind me - an impression of last nights snow.


Benediktenwand - the mountain i can spot from home.


the point i stoped for the pics you just watched. Near the very small town of Berg - between Huglfing and Peissenberg


on the way up to Hohenpeissenberg (did it on a road which is closed for public traffic - only for people who lives there).


nice views all the time


Hoher Peissenberg - one of the best view-points in front of the alps


at the top - and this day we had a fantastic view


parking - restaurant - everything was crowded. (the negative side of a nice day in the alps)


who cares - the panorama was fantastic


Karwendel-mountains


Direct. Zugspitze


Raisting and lake Ammersee


lake Ammersee - north end


at the road down - a nice idea - (red baron)


some km later - Altenstadt - german army airborn base (... we had this joke with Parachute and Birdshit)


still like this view to the alps


Allgäu at its best


less traffic - small roads - nice churches


and mountains


reached Bidingen (close to Kaufbeuren) and decided to go south (not to Kempten - on to Füssen)


way to Füssen


Forggensee near Rosshaupten (close to Füssen)


still snow to watch


next nice view to lake Forggensee.
After a small snack in Füssen - i wanted to go home via Plansee - so i did (Plansee - it's in Tyrol uppps -- but no control, no nothing - and i didn't stop in public places)


Reutte - Ski Area at Hahnenkamm (some for @Oldschoolrocker - he was skiing there as child)


still Reutte


close to lake Plansee


look back to Reutte


and woop - the beautyful lake Plansee.


fall is comming soon - in some days it might be more colorfull


like this lake


20 km later - back in Germany - at Ettal.


on more downhill and then ....


found this in Oberau -- was there so many times - never saw it.
It's a copy of Lourdes (in the french pyrenees). - asked Google last night and found 6 to 10 more copies in this area - have to take a look next.

but ... it's an other story.

to be continued...
have fun
Andreas

Very nice, for nothing special. Can't wait for the special trips.

- Vicarious Traveler