Last night I decided to just throw everything randomly into my bags that I didn't manage to put into my bags. This was one of the best decisions I've ever made.I only spend a few minutes this morning and the stress of doing everything the right way was simply blown away and I didn't had to wake up completely. The last thing I needed was 2 bags of the infamous Edeka no-shit just Studentenfutter to make me feel complete.
I then started to grind my coffee to have one last very delicious french press coffee for the next 5 weeks.
I had a delicious breakfast and enough sugar to get the candy rolling. I managed to get out of Hamburg without any major hassle. For a minute or so when I arrived at the St. Pauli Elbtunnel I got a little panicky when I noticed that they finally started renovating the elevators. Got lucky, they only do one at a time.
I then cheated a little bit today because I had no paper maps available to get out of the city and my shiny new compass seems to broken. If it's for him, I would've been riding to the north east all the day. This could've been the second part of my Helsinki trink which I never finished but I still plan to.I decided to google-map myself out of this situation and after 2 hours I managed to arrive, at least for a short time, at a very relaxing part of my route (before that - for reasons and around an hour - one truck after another overtook me).
When I got to Harburg things got even more hairy. I didn't had gmaps guide me all the way (hiding my phone inside a bad) I rode a route that probably contained all the hills you can get over when you ride through harburg. Every once in a while I had another look at my phone that I'm totally lost and doing the wrong shortcuts. I didn't stress myself about that fact, put it an even easier gear and took the next hill.
After some more lefts and rights, a water refill, a molten Kitkat and an Edeka Bulette, I finally arrived at a camping spot, put up my tent and jumped into the bathing lake.
Cheers.
P.S.: Don't ask where I am. I'm far to east to be west. Tomorrow will do. :)
