Day 03 – 101 and crate digging
2023-10-16 A little bit of free wandering around Taipei. Went to an electronics shop I knew from my last visit, which I hoped has still got the great selection of old Taiwanese music. Unfortunately the
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Lets Go Cycling
Cyclotourism in far east, past and present adventures.
Day 02 – Getting the bicycles ready
2023-10-15 After having a tasty Taiwanese breakfast with eggdrop soup and vegetables, we started assembling the bicycles. This went quite smooth and took about 1h per bicycle. Gladly they didn’t get damaged on the flight,
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Day 01 – Flight and arrival in Taipei
2023-10-14/15 Flight Transfer to the airport was easy and smooth, as we only had to take a short taxi trip from near the airport. Flight took with 13h a little bit longer than usual, due
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Coming soon: cycling around Taiwan 2023
Coming soon – we are visiting Taiwan to cycle around the beautiful island. Route is now set roughly.
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2019 Japan / Hokkaido – Overview
Arriving in Sapporo Day 00 – Sapporo – Trip and arrival Day 01 – Sapporo – Getting the bicycles ready Cycling Stage 1: To Kushiro Overview of stage. 9 days of cycling to Kushiro
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Day 27 – Sapporo to Cologne – Long way back home
2019-09-17 Sapporo / Chitose / Haneda / Düsseldorf / Cologne. Long way. Got up early at 4:00 AM, incredible sunrise. Had managed to organize some private taxi, with friends we had made before. Got to
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Day 23 to 26 – Sapporo – Big city, bright lights
2019-09-13 to 209-09-16 Sapporo After all that cycling in the most rural areas our reward was some time off the bike going record shopping in Sapporo. The city is about 1.9 million people, so the
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Day 22 – Iwamizawa to Sapporo – Coming back again
2019-09-12 Start: 11:15 / Arrival: 16:30 Distance: 52km / Gained height 300 hm Got breakfast at the mall again and then left for a transfer to Sapporo. Transfer was okay, but with heavy headwinds…. Also
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Day 21 – Furano to Iwamizawa – Rainy day with a surprising reward
2019-09-11 Start: 8:45 / Arrival: 17:00 Distance: 81km / Gained height 760 hm Forecast again rain. Early start due to it. This was a quitr dull ride and just a transfer, after the rain started. Came
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Day 20 – Asahikawa to Furano – Flowerfields
2019-09-10 Start: 13:00 / Arrival: 21:15 Distance: 73km / Gained height 750 hm Late and slow start, as I needed some more sleep. Got a tasty breakfast from the Aeon deli section, accompanied by some sweet tomato
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