Good morning Germany
Good morning Germany
I am actually cycling in the Czech Republic right now, but slept tonight about 20m over the border in Germany. Definitely feel now like this tour is coming to an end. Still a good week to go.
I've had the fries with fried cheese in the Czech Republic. They also didn't salt the fries, like sometimes in Belgium, haha. The supermarkets along the border here in the ore mountains absolutely suck, they're all some 'duty free' type shops for the Germans coming over the border to buy something cheap. Handbags, liquor, cigarettes, huge packs of Haribo. Was not able to find any joghurt for my müsli, so i will have a snickers for breakfast.
There's quite a lot more services offered on the Czech side of the border, most notably faked brands stuff and prostitution, plus drugs (lots of drugs) and, if you ask nicely, even weapons.
It's quite the show. The bazillion cars from Germany are not there only for the cheap chocolates.
Where i am riding there are hardly any cars, most of it is completely car free, have not experienced what you described yet at all. But i remember having heard about it too.
The supermarkets along the border here in the ore mountains absolutely suck, they’re all some ‘duty free’ type shops for the Germans coming over the border to buy something cheap.
i do believe that lot of people living in the border regions actually go for their groceries to germany, it may be cheaper and have better quality. but you will find something in every biggre city, just don't be on the main road. google maps should give you list of grocery stores. there are also local mapy.cz which works very nice, both of them (google maps and mapy.cz) have ability to download maps for offline use when you get to wifi somewhere.
Yeah, i saw an elderly german couple in one of those 'free one shops', a bit complaining about how 'nothing was cheap anymore' but the coffee. I just bought a coke.
I didn't want to ride too far downhill just to get to a supermarket, i though one of these must have a normal selection, but not the case yesterday. Now i found one here in Bozi Dar. Got my yoghurt. Also accidently bought orange sirup, thinking it was some czech lemonade but i could swap it again for a fanta.
Riding up here on the last 20km was quite some traffic. Almost all czech cars though and seemed like most of them had mountainbikes on their racks. No prositutes, drugs and weapons in sight.
From here i will be riding another 30km around altitude 1000 to 800 and that will probably be it for me with mountains on this tour, sadly.
Thanks for the tip with mapy.cz, met a czech tourer up here who also recommended this, but i am already happily using osmand, which uses the same map data and has the shops marked too.
Also accidently bought orange sirup, thinking it was some czech lemonade
it is over-sugared shit that people melt in the water in a rate of 1:50 or something to drink it. it is without a doubt most disgusting of the czech culinary habits.
No prositutes, drugs and weapons in sight.
these are mostly stories from 90s and 00s... if someone thinks there are weapons and drugs sold in the kiosk by the road and you have to fight your way through all the hookers to get to them, he should stop watching dubious tv and go outside sometimes 🤣
Wow, that is a beautiful picture. Shame that all good things must come to an end, but it does make the experiences even more valuable. So no Haribo with liquor breakfast for you?
Have a good laat week!!
Beautiful picture, but everything was also very wet that morning. Thank you, and thanks for all your feedback along the ride.
Haribo and liquor breakfast, haha, i maybe should have tried that. I am back in Germany now and i am happy to have the breakfast i'm used to. First i was bummed going home but now i like it. Bavaria is lovely.
Awesome! I checked your post history and it looks like quite a ride.
I hope you read all my long winding texts as well, haha.
That's wonderful. Hope it doesn't get too hot today, it's pretty unpleasant in the NE.
I actually might try to find my sun hat at the bottom of my pannier today, haven't used it since over a month ago in Croatia.
It is a beautiful day so far, and i am still at altitude. But tbh, i'd rather have some heat than any more rain and cold now, certainly got my dose of that.
But yeah, perfect weather, that would be neat, haha.
Did you visit some Czech bunkers, I just remembered that last time I discouraged you but now I looked in this map https://mapa.opevneni.cz/ and realised that there is quite a lot of interesting things you may want to see.