The Mai offers its many long weekends always the opportunity to take short trips. In the search for tours that from Cologne by train, and without great Effort are available, we chose this time to the North Sea coast. The tour should go this time of Emden to Wilhelmshaven, all along the East Frisian Islands.
Getting Comfortable in old school wagons of the train!
After leisurely journey it was in Emden, the first surprise: a beautiful hotel ! The rooms are really lovely and individually, has its own bicycle garage and the breakfast delicious! Highly recommended!
our princely room at the Hotel Heeren!
went after a restful night in our princely room there (as always) go early. The goal of our trip should be Baltrum, a small East Frisian island. Somehow we had thought the ferries run every half hour, as one knows so classic from the Rhine. Unfortunately, there are up there high and low tide and thus the ferries only 2x a day. But every day another time! For Saturday we had the nature of the tide - and the ferry - set to clock 17.00. In fact, enough time for a distance of 100 km.
According to report, it should also give West and thus momentum. Unless the plan. Something went wrong, however, because the road was not schnurschtracks from west to east but from south to north. Headwind! At some point we realized that this will continue over the next 50 km Sun The only people who could be happy about were the countless windmills. The next sheep were our only entertainment. Every 100 meters is a huge, completely over-sized wheel and all turn to the right! Whether this has a deeper meaning?
The other companion, the sheep, there was also in vast quantities. The animals are really nothing more than moving and fur bearing intestines, which lay just constantly eating small mines. But süüß! At least your little one!
A small selection of Emsländer blackface sheep.
After the first original Frisian village, we pile on the other, still lying in the back country on the route, ignored and are directly followed the dike to the ferry terminal.
If the water is so high only once, there is a problem.
first positive surprise: On the island, cars are banned completely! Something like the courageous cyclists happy of course! Even with our bicycles We already had a bad conscience!
While beat so all the tourists and the few guarded and overpriced parking, we could take our vehicle easily. The first surprise came right after: A seal colony! Unfortunately, rode the ferry does not pass close enough!
On the island, the holiday-makers take their belongings with the wagon to the hotel, we are simply hingerollert.
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After a sumptuous meal, a short walk to the beach and the obligatory sauna we earned the night's sleep upright!
idyllic island scenery ....
and then so what! The most dangerous state in Germany!
Here are the dates: 93.28 km, 05:47 'travel time, average speed: 16,09 (sooo bad, but the head wind), speed: 32.03 km / h . Temperature: 10 degrees, overcast. View
North Sea Cycle Route on a larger map
