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(family close to Ksar el Kebir, waterfalls in Akchour, Ahmed in Oued Laou, couchsurfing in Martil and M'Diq, Easter visit in Ceuta)
Roughly 500 km
Stage 12 - Back in Spain
Arrived April 17th?
(one night in Alceidesa with John, Janina and Johanna, then mixed walk/cycle trip with Janina, EV8, Barbate, Chiclana, cycling over Sevilla to Portugal)
135 km walk/cycle with Janina - deepsouth.gpx
325 km to Portugal
Stage 13 - Portugal
Arrived May 2nd at Jo
Future destinations
French west coast
GermanyThen a long relaxed tour with Johanna along the south coast, along the west coast to Lisboa and to Porto (800 km). Johanna's sister cycled with us for a few days, really nice!
I wanted to reach Germany until July, so we decided to cycle across the coutry into Spain. Oh so many mountains!
220 km, 3500 hm from Porto to Verin
Stage 14 - Spain and Basque Country
From Verin to Vitoria-Gasteiz 540 km
Here Johanna and me parted ways, she took a bus to South of Spain and I continued to Germany. But there is another country in the way....
Stage 15 - Racing through France
950 km - first down the Basque mountains, then flat across French countryside
Finished for now!
In Paris I arrived during noon and took a bus (that had a bike carrier) to Germany in the evening. That was exactly the right amount of time in the city.
Aftermath
From Braunschweig I cycled 80km in sunny and rainy weather to Harzgerode, where I arrived at night when a thunderstorm was directly over me. That gave quite a motivation to cycle harder up the Harz hills.
Finally replaced my bike chain, it was really saggy!
Some smaller tours followed:
- Finsterwalde to Berlin (120 km)
- Berlin to Wurzen (180 km)
- Wurzen to Neuried (475 km)
= 7825 km