With some beautiful weather just right for cycling (before the weather turns bad again) it was time to do an overnighter on the bike. It might have been sunny but the breeze was very cold so it was all clothes on and a merino buff under my helmet. It was so nice out that 2 days turned into 3 and I ended up cycling from Gifhorn to Lüneburg - a total of 150km.
North of Gifhorn, on the Heide plateau, it was lovely cycling with lots of forest and farm land to cycle through. I could have done with some front suspension, however, as the forest tracks were pretty rutted and cobble stones can be very hard to cycle over.
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Uelzen loch system -
raises/lowers canal 23metres |
I cycled over the Elbe-Seitenkanal, along it and even under it. Its an amazing canal system where often the canal is substantially higher than the surrounding farmland and there are even canal bridges to cross rivers and valleys - quite weird to have a huge barge sailing above you.
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| Bokeler Heide (Heath) |
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| Kloster Isenhagen @ Hankensbuttel |
There were some lovely heath areas I cycled through, lots of farmland, I even saw some sheep and cattle! There are always lots of towns and each creates its own little navigational nightmare.
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| Hundertwasser Railway Station @ Uelzen |
I visited an amazing old Kloster/convent built in the 1300's, an otter park, the Hundertwasser railway station (same architect as the toilets close to Kerikeri!) and had a lovely evening in Lüneburg listening to a drummer drumming up a storm in the town square while I ate my meal in the sun.
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| Lüneberg |
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| Lüneberg Rathaus (townhall) |
Thats 240km of the 416km I set out to do!
North of Gifhorn, on the Heide plateau, it was lovely cycling with lots of forest and farm land to cycle through. I could have done with some front suspension, however, as the forest tracks were pretty rutted and cobble stones can be very hard to cycle over. 
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