After the exams, me and my buddy went for a ride to my home town – 2 countries over, 500km and a bit more then 5000m of elevation. The initial plan was four and a half days, cycling max 120km per day, but as the weather report for the Großglocknerstraße was in our favour, we decided to change the plan a little bit. First day was though – around 200km, 1500m of elevation from a bit outside Munich to Zell am See. Tired, we found a B&B to spend the night. Next day, we had a late start and did around 80km and 2100m of elevation. The views were spectacular, but the hard day before and a new hard day took its toll and my knee got inflamed. We slept in a Village a bit after Heiligenblut, where we stumbled upon a guy working for the town and we were allowed to camp in town's recreational centre. Next day, my knee was toasted. We managed to get to Spittal am der Drau, where I went to the Pharmacy and got myself a "grandpa cream" for my bad knee. We continued and I barely managed to come to Villach, yet we were still ahead of schedule. After some strolling through the town, where there was a huge biker meet with approximately 30.000 bikers attending, my knee felt as good as new and we decided to push through over the Wurzenpass/Korensko sedlo (with 1km long 18% incline) to Slovenia, in order to escape rain and not to have any more elevation the next day. As young and stupid as we are, we in fact did not stop in Kranjska Gora, but we cycled through the night and came to my parent's place a bit before 1am.
We managed to cycle from the centre of Munich to Ljubljana in almost exactly 65 hours, with 2 full nights of sleep – each around 8 to 9 hours.
Next year, we are doing it in less then 60h, if anyone wants to join /s
Unrelated question – the flair easterm europe, to which exact region does it apply? The cold war east/west divide or the one thought in school (former USSSR without Baltic states in my case)?
by peacokk16