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For the last few weeks before I returned to the US, I worked in Copenhagen (København). I flew there every Monday morning, and home to München every Friday afternoon.

A bicycle tour from København to München

Dave Hood
2004-02-19 20:21:47

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I’ve ever been on. Busses, tractor-trailers, private cars. The vehicle deck also had three tracks for rail cars, but there were none on this particular trip. Since they run the ferries every half hour, 24 hours a day, I imagine they move most of the rail traffic late at night.

Four staircases up, there were two decks for passengers. Went out on deck to watch the sailing: Auf Wiedersehen, Denmark! – we backed out, made a U-turn at sea, repeated the process on the German side. When we picked up speed and got into the open sea, I went indoors: even the lee side was too windy and chilly.

The ferry lands at Puttgarden, on the little island of Fehmarn. No passport hassle at all. There’s a road straight across the island to the Continent – and bicycles aren’t allowed! Moomph! Went to Puttgarden Bahnhof, which had a more detailed kiosk map – I need to go through Puttgarden itself, then to Burg.

Burg is quite a good-sized town, very busy. Lots of people on the street. Restaurants and (believe it or not: Sunday!) clothing stores, sidewalk sales. If I were finished with the day’s travel, I could easily mellow out here, have a great day. But I need to keep moving. I would like to get to Lübeck today.

I was hoping to use only two large-scale maps, one each of north and south Germany, to minimize weight and space. But the road signs pointed to towns not shown on the map. Very frustrating. Walked through Burg looking for a place that might sell maps. I could have bought a street plan of Burg, but that’s about all. Moomph! Nothing for it but to guess my way along. Not at all satisfactory.

At Blieschendorf was another opportunity to get onto main road 207, and there was no bicycle prohibition. Great shoulder lane, easily two meters wide, sometimes three. Why couldn’t they have done this at the beginning?

Finally reached the Continent about 12:30. Stopped at a gas ...