 From
Travemünde
to Lübeck it is less than 20 kilometers. I take a day off,
have the first beer for more than a month and have a look at the
historical
center.
*
The next day I pass by Hamburg (Friedrichsruhe) and
spend the night in the youth hostel of Undeloh. I cross the Lüneburger
Heide where I have to push my bike for the first time this trip as
the roads are too sandy for cycling. From here I have to suffer of
straight
head winds until the end.  But
now I can see my destination not too far away: Bonn. On the way I visit
my aunt at Arnsberg and my parents in Wuppertal.
Skandinavia - looking back
After 4600 km through Sweden, Norway
and Finnland I recall the most impressive journey of my life. I
had many lovely days, very few but hard rainy days and great wild
camping
sites at wonderful swedish lakes. Norway, the most expensive
country
on my way, did impress me most. There is scenery and colors and a vaste
country side and going by Hurtigruten through the fjords
is something very special. The North Cape itself is just a name
although even the last miles are very beautiful.
Finnland could not keep pace with that,
even more, I was rather disappointed. There is always a space of woods
between the road and the lakes, so that you don't see much of them. To
me Finnland was the country of the «1000 invisible lakes».
On the other side Finnland has the best camping sites I have ever seen.
There are hot showers, camp fires and a lot of every day equipement. Helsinki
is not that interesting either.
The sensuous peak of the journey was the arrival
in Mo I Rana. Once before and never again I have been so happy
when
getting to a day's destination. And even the spectacular arrival at the
North
Cape was not that tremendous.
I adapted my food to the small budget, milk,
müsli, raisins, apples and bananas, some mushrooms, bread, cheese
and sausages. However, all this is of much better quality than on the
british
isles. So I didn't starve.
It was a very long trip with a lot of new experiences.
The diary concludes this tour with the following sentence:
«5863 km - sometimes I think, that
was really enough!»
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From
Travemünde
to Lübeck it is less than 20 kilometers. I take a day off,
have the first beer for more than a month and have a look at the
historical
center.
But
now I can see my destination not too far away: Bonn. On the way I visit
my aunt at Arnsberg and my parents in Wuppertal.
