Candid – Puslapis 3 – Ecotopia Biketour

Białowieża Forest

Candid 6 liepos, 2016 September 8, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Jungtinių Valstijų Anglų. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Białowieża Forest is a big forest that spans across the border between Poland and Belarus. It is known to be the only leftover primeval forest in Europe and home of its biggest bison population. We stayed on the Polish side of the forest for 5 days. We were also planning to cross over to the Belarusian side through the newly-opened bike-only border crossing, but unfortunately…

Happy birthday Knödel!

Candid 4 liepos, 2016 September 8, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Jungtinių Valstijų Anglų. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Knödel (dumpling; full name: Eismarillenknödel, ice-cream apricot dumpling) was found on the Biketour in 2014 under a trash-bin in Bulgaria when he was only 2 weeks old. He has spent more than one third of his 2 years of age cycling through more than 20 countries. Knödel likes to play silly games and do silly things, but when someone comes too close to his trailer,…

On the way to Bia

Candid 22 birželio, 2016 June 22, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Jungtinių Valstijų Anglų. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. We have left Warsaw with 1½ days delay, on the 19th of June. We are about 7 people and everything is quite chaotic. Our application for a Belarus visa was not successful on the first attempt, so one of us stayed back in Warsaw to go to the embassy again. Every day they invented a new reason why our application is not complete, and everyday…

Pre-Biketour: Berlin–Poznań–Warszawa

Candid 17 birželio, 2016 June 17, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Jungtinių Valstijų Anglų. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The 5th of June was the official start of the pre-Biketour in Berlin. Only 3 of us met (we expected much more) and joined the Fahrradsternfahrt, the biggest bicycle demonstration in the world, along with 140 000 other people. On 19 routes of around 1000 km in total, starting in different places around Berlin and all joining on the way to go to Brandenburger Tor in the…