De Reeënberg

I wasn't looking forward to the ride down past Hamburg and Lubeck on highway number one in Germany as I know it is always very busy and today it was a nightmare. After less than half an hour I saw the sky was black ahead of me and rain was falling very hard so I stopped under a bridge and put my phone in a plastic bag with my passport in my inside pocket. I had ready a thin cheap but very waterproof jacket of the type walkers use and put that over my motorcycle jacket then set off into the mailstrom. The rain was so hard I could see only the length of two trucks in front of me. Thankfully everyone driving was sensible and we all slowed to 50kph and kept a good distance. The rain was hammering off my clothing. If forgot to change my gloves for the waterproof ones so my hands after soaked in seconds but it wasn't very cold so it didn't matter until I stopped and had to peel my gloves off. Eventually the rain cleared and we speeded up. Normally I sit around 125kph but as I was on a road with no restrictions for a few minutes I sat at 190kph and had a laugh when I looked in my mirror and saw a white van wanting to overtake
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Now I'm in a not very nice hotel in a forest near Apeldoorn Holland. Two hours ride from the ferry which I'll get tomorrow afternoon.

This morning I got an email from Google whom I have let track my whereabouts for years. Every month it gives a summary of where I've been, how far I've walked, cycled, driven, flown etc. I'll put a screenshot in the photos. As you might imagine it has been an interesting month.Read more