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Since I keep reporting from our bike trip, I thought it may be useful to report about the route itself.

We had been taken the socalled Elbe Cycle Route – a bike and inline skater trail which is leading from Prague to Cuxhaven. It is most of the time adjacent to the river Elbe und thus parts of it are in danger of being flooded. However flood damages get fastly repaired, since the trail had become a major tourist attraction, which spurs the economy in the little villages which are close to it. The trail is partially very comfortable, i.e. there are even sometimes fruit trees along the trail supplying bikers with pears and apples and here (heading west shortly before Meissen) we found even this funny fountain (see above).

Here comes our exact route (at least the part from Dresden to Meissen) and since google maps gives only a car route (indeed not very handy especially for Bejing as I imagine, where they have broad bike lanes) – it makes sense to switch to a bikemap (under construction as it seems). There is actually a quite nice bikeplaner for Berlin, but one has to say at this place that – although there had been done a lot in the past – Berlins bike routes are usually not as easygoing as the Elbe Cycle Route. In particular they are dangerous enough that you wouldn´t like to send your kids alone onto a longer trip, like e.g. to school.

posted by nad on Thursday, August 16th, 2007 at 9:27 am // environment, trips, Uncategorized. // RSS 2.0 feed skip to the end and leave a response // pinging is currently not allowed //