Evening tour in southern Berlin and into Brandenburg

July 18th, 2011, 23:58 | No comments


Bike route 1122976 – powered by Bikemap

Biked the wrong way twice (you can see the strange lines a bit north from Blankenfelde). Average speed 26,8 kph. Boring area. Really boring! But I was amazed at the expensive bike paths everywhere. (I used and enjoyed them this time.) I’m pretty sure that has to do with former East Germany. But it’s really sick. They should spend those money on bike paths/lanes in Berlin city instead, where they are a mess.

The nice bike path where Brandenburg had just begun.

Phat bike path!

Some roads weren’t that bad either.

Birkholz, a very small “dorf”. Birkholz means birchwood.

When I biked the wrong way I passed Interflug – a “kleingartenanlage” close to airport Schönefeld. (Interflug was the state airline of GDR.)

State of the art bike path – looks expensive!

I was so relieved to finally see this sign after having lost my way twice.

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Another tour to the Havel

July 17th, 2011, 4:35 | No comments

Bike route 1116793 – powered by Bikemap

Yeah, it was a nice ride! 64 km, average speed 26 kph. Had a road biker before me and one behind me for a long time. I simply couldn’t catch up with the one before me, and the one behind me couldn’t catch up with me. Yet we remained within viewing distance for about 10 kilometers.

The route was more or less like the Velothon route. In the end I biked on the landing runway of former airport Tempelhof, which is now a park. The big cross on the picture probably signals to pilots that this is not an airstrip anymore. It was so lovely to bike here! Recently I’m always filled with awe when I fly and the pilot fuels the engines and lifts the plane. What a feeling that must be! Being on a runway myself and pumping away as fast as I can is probably the closest I will ever come to lifting a jet. Happiness!

PS: As you can see, I’ve just started to explore Bikemap.net. Seems much smoother than the regular Google Maps maps that I used to use.

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Improvised bike tour with FKK bonus!

July 13th, 2011, 0:00 | No comments

I’ve worked a lot with web design and programming in the last days, and finally got my old mailing list to work. So after sending out lots of e-mails to my old customers, I’ve spent yesterday and today receiving orders and sending out books. It’s been hard work – but I have loved every bit of it. I’ll let you in on a little secret: I finally broke even – hooray!!!

Tonight after I had posted today’s orders at the post office, I felt the energy dwelling up inside me, as so often. I needed a beer badly, but none of my friends were available. So instead I jacked in to my ipod and biked away. I biked through Brandenburger Tor, then followed the route from the Velothon to Ernst-Reuter-Platz, continued all the way to Olympiastadion, and then chose a little road called Am Postfenn that I had seen on a map at a bus stop. That road was such a gem! Almost no traffic – except for other cyclists – and downslopes all the way down to the lake Havel. This is where I became one with my ipod. The build-up from 1:36 to 2:12 of Sonny J’s Can’t Stop Moving synced perfectly with the best downslope ever – I’m pretty sure I took the slight curve in 50+ kph. My first boyfriend used to say that he was never as happy as when he danced. Well, I’m never as happy as when I bike. True!

As I came down to the road by the lake, I couldn’t resist biking down the grass slope to the water. It was 8 pm and the sun was setting. The little patch of beach I had come to was deserted. What could I do but take off all my clothes and skinny dip in the refreshing water. It was lovely! Took a while to dry without a towel, but who cares.

My little solo FKK beach.

No data for today, as the trip was improvised. No bike computer, no helmet, no water (I stopped at two “spätis” to buy that – I always ask for non-refrigerated water as that is easier to drink). But according to Google Maps the trip was approximately 50 km.

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Pojkar, pojkar, pojkar…

July 10th, 2011, 2:16 | No comments

Ur tidningen Killen, nr 95 (1984).

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Crippled but back

July 7th, 2011, 12:05 | No comments

They’re slow but they’re back – my web sites.

It’s still very hard to write an entry though, so I won’t even try to embed any videos of the worst rainstorm ever in Copenhagen, which flooded my server host and had my sites down for four days – from Saturday through Tuesday.

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I wrote the above yesterday. Today things are functioning smoothly again. A backup seems to have overwritten the changes I made yesterday, which thankfully only included a draft and an approved comment.

Well well, more news later. I gotta get some things done here now.

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