Das hätten wir von Deutschland nicht erwartet!! Eine Radreise von Österreich bis ans NORDKAP Ep.2

Finding really, really cool places to sleep. Something like this also happens in Germany. It's really so abandoned here, it's very lonely. The first offers, what we will probably expect in Scandinavia. We are at the sea! We are currently driving through Saxony-Anhalt. We have been driving for two or three days now. It's really so abandoned here. It's very lonely. The houses are partly abandoned. It is the former GDR. And you really notice a huge difference to Bavaria, where we were before. Full, full. So it's a really economically weak area. We have already been told that. We don't see any people all day. It's so lonely here. Abandoned buildings, abandoned areas. A bit like when the abandoned corner of Germany was here. Full, full. But it's really cool to ride a bike. There are good roads. Not perfectly paved, but you're not lonely. There is no traffic. Perfect for wild camping. It's okay everywhere. We would have associated this loneliness and the beautiful wild camping much more with Scandinavia than with East Germany. Even the rain gives us a first impression of what awaits us on the way to the North Cape. But in one thing, the East of Germany is very different from Scandinavia. We were just shopping for our lunch at Penny and everything we bought costs 8€. A bit more than 8€. We roughly calculated what we would have paid at home for the same shopping. And we would have probably paid almost double. Now I'll show you what we bought. It was a whole bunch of radishes. A whole pack of strawberries. 300g cream cheese. A whole pear. 6 egg yolks. 350g black olives. A nectarine. And probably half a kilo of freshly ground bread, which Rani is eating right now. That's really cheap. We can't get used to it, because in Norway it looks different again. We are now two days before Hamburg. Three days. Three days, yes. Originally we wanted to cycle along the Elbe, but we got a bit bored at the Saale. So we decided to cycle across the field. And it was a really cool decision, at least until now. Because we are now allowed to enter the former GDR. In a really forgotten corner of Germany. And also the darkest corner of Germany, because there is the least air pollution. Light pollution. What did I say? Air pollution. Oh God. And at the same time also the darkest corner of Germany, because there is the least light pollution. But that doesn't surprise us at all. There is also simply nothing here. So from time to time we have such small villages, but actually they seem to be left and forgotten. Now we are cycling right in the middle of the nature reserve. It's beautiful. And then it goes on to Hamburg. Now we are back in West Germany. You can tell that the villages are much nicer again. There are no dilapidated buildings anymore. Everything is built. So really nice. We are now cycling on side streets all the time. Perfectly paved, nothing going on. So it shows that there are really, really nice quiet streets in Germany to ride. Not only the small, perfect streets have accompanied us since our first day in Germany. Also the hospitality is still unbroken. Wild, strange people invite us to their homes via various ways. And we get to know the most exciting personalities. So also on this day. The last night we found a place via One Night Tent again. It's so weird again. We are at the old farm of Katrin. She is an architect. She bought the farm and rebuilt the farmhouse where she lives. And next to it is a large stable. It was a sheep stable where we are right now. And if you look in the background, it's just crazy. Someone built a huge pool there because she is a passionate swimmer. There is a stage over there. And a lot of paintings there. So back there are a lot of paintings. Actually everywhere on the wall. It's absolutely cool in there. So via One Night Tent you can find really, really cool places to sleep. And get to know really, really cool people. But you don't always need the internet to get in touch with people. The next day, just before Hamburg, we come into conversation with Hermann, the local potato farmer. Actually, we just wanted to fill up our water supplies. But then an encounter develops that we will not forget so quickly. Good morning. We are about 50 km away from the city border to Hamburg. We slept on a sports field last night. And we only asked for water because the local potato farmer had just filled up his tank. And then he allowed us to sleep there. Then he asked the local potato farmer if that was okay. Yesterday evening he came again with a whole bottle of wine and two bottles of beer. The three of us taught him, or more, Reino and me. And he only drank one glass. It was really nice, we learned a lot. It was such a cool encounter. And this morning, just now, he suddenly appeared again. And he brought a whole can of coffee. It's really so nice. And yes, something like that also happens in Germany. And not only in Iran or in the faraway countries where you always think that people are so nice. There are also a lot of very, very nice people in Germany. And we enjoy it. We also enjoy the German hospitality thanks to the countless invitations we have received from you via e-mail or social media. And so we meet Sabine and Uwe, two well-travelled cyclists. They know exactly what a cyclist needs and pamper us in every way. The next day we cross the Elbe together and they accompany us a bit towards Hamburg. The anticipation for Hamburg increases, because there we have made a very special appointment with someone. In 2019 we met Sabine from Hamburg in Oman by a funny coincidence. We spent two days with a funny group of young Omanis and agreed that we would meet again at some point. Now, two and a half years later, we sit in her garden and grill marshmallows, wander in common memories and dream of places that we would like to travel with the bike. We feel so comfortable that we stay for four days and make Hamburg unsafe. We are on the way from Hamburg to Kiel. Today is the first day when we have real wind. This is one of the first conditions that we will probably have in Scandinavia. Most of the time it was only tailwind, but right now it blows really nicely from the front. The wind is the mountains of the north and we get to feel that for the first time. Not only the wind announces the high north. Even the container ships are the first to forbid that the Baltic Sea can no longer be far away. The North Baltic Sea Canal connects the North Sea with the Baltic Sea and that's exactly where we have to go. To get to Norway, we actually wanted to take the ferry from Kiel to Oslo. After all, it is already the beginning of July and we really wanted to reach the North Cape in summer. So many people have told us stories that there would be snow in northern Scandinavia even in August and we would have left much too late. The ferry would have saved us a whole week of cycling and relaxed our schedule a bit. But somehow everything seems to be against this plan. If we can't take the ferry from Kiel, that would mean a detour of 600 kilometers. This is the last day in Germany. We made it to the sea, really cool, to the Baltic Sea. Our original plan was to take the ferry from Kiel to Oslo, but the ferry was simply too expensive for us. If we had booked it, we would have paid 600 euros. That's why we decided to take the ferry across Denmark in five days. We want to cycle through Denmark in five days, that's about 450 kilometers. We'll cycle the Oxenradweg there and I'll tell you how to get there in the next video. Before we end the video, it is very important that we mention one more thing. We want to thank everyone who wrote us emails and invited us to stay overnight, to eat, to relax. It was really great. We could have spent eternity in Germany because we got so many invitations via social media. We are really happy about that and thank everyone who helped us. We were at many people's homes and it was a really cool time in Germany.