Hot and Hell

 Due to the weather forecast we started our bike ride at 6:45am this morning. At 9am we already finished 50km and had our first cafe/Coke break. We ate our hony bread prepared by Klaus in the morning. 

The secret of this honey bread is the embedded energy when you use 8g of butter plus 21g of local honey. Certainly you have to use fresh 100% rye bread. This gives you the most energy (I think it was 250kcal) for the next 2-3 hours... When you have questions please call Doctor Klaus.

We passed Cloppenburg, Ahlhorn, Grossenkneten before we arrived at Lemwerder after 118km. 

Alois visited Bremen for a short tour and drove 65km. He also organized a good parking space for Frank with power connection and possibility to take a good shower. Thank you!!

Eggi, a close friend of Professor Stefan came with his Harley Davidson to visit us. For dinner we went to a Greek restaurant. It was hot and hell (our friends from Texas know what I am talking about..). Temperature in the afternoon was still 33oC.

We will use the ferry tomorrow morning to cross the river Weser.

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