The plan was to visit friends in the Göttingen area by train and then cycle home from there to the Munich area in the south. 1000km via detours and 10.000 metres in altitude, over the Harz mountains and parts of the Rennsteig trail. I managed 570km and 7400m elevation gain, then I had to break off the tour. I was bitten on the calf by a random dog (ran towards me and immediately bit me without bark) and had so much pain that I cycled 30km on basically one leg to the nearest hospital, at least it looks like he didn’t have rabies. Everything fine now. Was quite the wild experience.
Until then it was wonderful, even if the weather was also not that good to me. I cycled for 5 days and it rained on 4 of them, 2 of them the whole day. Temperatures dropped to 10 degrees Celsius during the day and I only had a summer quilt with me, which was borderline at times during the night. When I was packing I almost wanted to leave my thick socks and gloves at home, I was really glad that I took them with me after all.
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The plan was to visit friends in the Göttingen area by train and then cycle home from there to the Munich area in the south. 1000km via detours and 10.000 metres in altitude, over the Harz mountains and parts of the Rennsteig trail. I managed 570km and 7400m elevation gain, then I had to break off the tour. I was bitten on the calf by a random dog (ran towards me and immediately bit me without bark) and had so much pain that I cycled 30km on basically one leg to the nearest hospital, at least it looks like he didn’t have rabies. Everything fine now. Was quite the wild experience.
Until then it was wonderful, even if the weather was also not that good to me. I cycled for 5 days and it rained on 4 of them, 2 of them the whole day. Temperatures dropped to 10 degrees Celsius during the day and I only had a summer quilt with me, which was borderline at times during the night. When I was packing I almost wanted to leave my thick socks and gloves at home, I was really glad that I took them with me after all.