Category: Life in Germany

January 2016 Cycling this month Here is the list of this month’s rides: As you can see, I had a good month and was able to cycle over 1000km. Here is the map of the places I went (the trip to Essen out on the east of this map was to collect my car so… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 22

December 2015 Cycling this month This month wasn’t a particularly high mileage one, despite the amazingly mild weather. A trip to England for Christmas and general busyness meant I didn’t ride as much as some other years but I still had some really good trips! Cycling statistics for December 2015 And the routes I took…… Continue reading Six Wheels in Germany – Month 21

November 2015 Cycling this month Cycling statistics this month This month has been less of a cycling month for me – various other things getting in the way. Nevertheless I managed almost 550km which leaves me 510 by 31st December to hit my target of 10,000km for the year. And here is where I rode… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 20

October 2015 cycling this month Cycling statistics this month And here is the map of all my tracks. Another interesting (well, to me anyway!) statistic relates to this photo: This is a rear wheel puncture in Alfie. What’s so odd about that, you ask? Well, it just so happens that I am a bit nerdy… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 19

September 2015 So here we are – eighteen months after I left the UK and I’m still in Germany. It turns out I will be staying – I enjoy life too much here and don’t want to leave. I’m looking for a job and otherwise settling in even more. So there are plenty more blog… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 18

This report had so many photographs that it was best to split it into two. For the first part of this report please click here. Continued… The next day (Sunday) I was flying back to Amsterdam but we had a fair bit of time in the morning so walked along the front at Teignmouth. There… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 17 Part 2

August 2015 This report had so many photographs that it didn’t display well on tablet computers so I have divided it into two posts. For the second half click here. Cycling this month August ended up with a pretty good total considering I had a couple of weekends when I wasn’t able to ride. Here… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 17 Part 1

July 2015 Cycling this month Cycling Statistics for July 2015 Cycle rides this month At the tail end of June and the beginning of July Claudia was off work and Lara was at a holiday club so we had several hours each day for cycling – and used the time well! 1 July – ride… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 16

June 2015 Cycling Statistics This Month Here’s a map of all my rides this month. And here are the statistics. Rides this month Alfie goes to Kleve I had long nurtured a plan to cycle to Kleve (where Anne of Cleves, one of the wives of Henry the Eighth, came from). One weekday the weather… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 15

May 2015 Cycling this month The first day of this month was the last day of the bike tour (was it really so long ago??!!) so the tracks start in Hitdorf near Leverkusen. And here is the report of all the rides I have done. My main challenge this month was visiting all the windmills… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 14

April 2015 I have now lived a complete year in Germany, enjoying all the seasons and experiencing life in a different country as a resident. And now it starts all over again! Cycling Statistics This Month This month I did the SPEZI tour so did rather more cycling than the last few months. You can… Continue reading Six Wheels in Germany – Month 13

March 2015 Cycling Statistics This Month Here is the summary of rides I did this month – as you can see, not very many, only 224km! And this is where I rode – not very far afield at all! As mentioned in last month’s blog post I was hit rather badly with the flu in… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 12

My original plan was to spend a year in Germany – what I good thing I decided to extend that a long time ago as a year would have been nowhere near long enough! February has been a bit of an odd month as will be explained below. But the first hint can be gathered… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 11

January 2015 Cycling statistics for this month January was fairly snowy in Germany with lots of strong winds as well. Despite the weather, being on three wheels meant I was still able to ride 844.29km which was pretty good. Here is the list of my rides. And this is a map of all the rides… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 10

December 2014 So 2014 is at an end – a year of great change (moving countries) but a brilliant year overall. Cycling statistics this month Here are my figures for December’s cycling – a nice gentle month at 465km (I had almost two weeks off due to visiting the UK and then having family over… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 9

November 2014 Cycling Statistics for this month This month I passed two reasonable milestones – the first was 9000km for the year (target is 10,000 so I was ahead) and the second was 80,000km since I took up recumbent tricyling six years ago. And, as you can see from the information below, I’m only 261km… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 8

October 2014 Cycling this month This month I missed my target of 1000km by less than 1km. This was because I had two days off the bike feeling slightly under the weather and didn’t have a chance to make up the rides as it was at the end of the month because I thought the… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 7

September 2014 So the month of September has drawn to a close and my ‘year in Germany’ is halfway through. Except that it will come as no surprise to my regular readers that I’m having such fun I am planning to stay an additional six months – to have Summer 2015 in Germany as well.… Continue reading Six Wheels In Germany – Month 6

Cycling statistics for August 2014 This month I have cycled 1,242.74 km at an average speed of 17.9 km/h. Of that, Alfie did 721.44km and Penelope 521.30 (which tells you that we had some warm days in August). Here’s a map of my cycling routes in Kreis Viersen (plus the trip by car to the… Continue reading Six Wheels in Germany – Month 5

Last year I found myself helping out with the control (obligatory stop) on the London Edinburgh London Audax (long-distance cycling event). You can read all about that here. Because I enjoyed it so much, when I heard that there was a similar (but longer) event taking place in Germany that went through Köln, just an… Continue reading Helping at HBK Audax Control