Stage 15 Survived - Bike Trail Amazon of Europe

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I should have known that it would not take just one and a half hours of easy cycling. I know my niece, she sometimes goes hardcore in these cycling adventures so the promised easy let's ride a bike a little experience would not be a joke. We agreed yesterday afternoon to make a small excursion on bikes this morning; others were invited too but in the end just the two of us went. My niece and I.

She offered me a better bike, there was a spare one from her boyfriend but it was too high for me. I went with this very old and rusty bicycle that I usually use when I am here. It serves me well to move around in the town but for bike trails... Do you think it is a suitable one? 😂

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I know, not really the best option but here we go. It is better to ride this one than to fall from a bike that is too big for me. Short breakfast and a cup of coffee and we were ready.

She picked the route. I let her choose it as she has an application where she records her cycling tours and knows better the area. As I said, the plan was a route of one and a half hours. Her requirement was: No complaints allowed!

Ok, I can do it. {I thought haha}

The first stop was Anja, the bird whose gaze goes over the river Danube.

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Then we turned to the real route which mainly looked like this. An asphalted road that follows the river and the forests and fields on the other side.

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Sometimes I wanted to stop to take a few photos of the beehives. They always remind me of summer and the beehives we had when I was a child.

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Then we used the opportunity to take some photos of the shadows that were following us. Don't know why we could not escape from them! 😁

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My niece is a spy, she proved it with this shot. I didn't know she was spying on me and the car that was passing me at that moment.

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We passed by Liberland Village too... A place I visited last year. Let me find those posts if you want to see what is hiding there, behind the trees. Here you can see how nice it is, and there is also my vehicle (the same as I used today) in one of the photos. ;)

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The asphalted road became a bit worse in the part when we had to turn toward this picnic area which is so nice. There is a wooden pier and little boats that you reach from the same pier.

One year I tried to swim here and said never again 😂. The grass and water lilies in the water touched my legs and I didn't like to think that it could be also a snake or a frog... so... let's stay on the ground.

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Amazon of Europe bike trail board which explains this stage 15. Actually, it is a bit different, we should have cycled to the next city but then it would not be a circular route. We had to go back to our starting point.

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Still on the same pier but taking some last photos before we continued the route. Here started the suffering part where I was not allowed to complain, as I promised my niece I would not. Enjoy a moment more of this view before you come with us to our little detour.

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Here it is. The detour that was not planned. Half planned actually, as my company and guide cycled here two years ago without any problems but now it resulted as a suffering stage which in the end we ditched.

It started relatively well - with a lot of grass but it was manageable... although my legs were already scratched by the shrubs and dry grass.

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We had to follow the canal and end up close to one abandoned railway bridge which you will see later. A pity the path was completely overgrown with weeds and bushes.

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The moment we realized it would not be possible to continue here... now I have scratches on my arms and legs. It was a battle with the vegetation where we surrendered.

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Anyway, it was just one battle and not the whole adventure. We turned and found again the asphalted road, stopped at one hunting blind where I was offered to climb... I skipped that activity, look how tall it was. 😲

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We went toward the next village using this road which was a good option but a longer route for sure. Some voices started to talk in my head... tienes hambre... tenías que traer algo de comida...

I tried not to listen to them. I had water :)

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Next stage - we reached the regional road that connects two towns. We cycled already toward our town and crossed one bridge to have a little stop and see the railway bridge. The one we would cross but the path overgrown with weeds messed up the plans.

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In total, we cycled two hours and twenty minutes, with the little stops and fight with the shrubs. My niece already mentioned another route for tomorrow (which I can't go to as I have other commitments already)... Who is brave enough to go with her? 😁

{I think I'll be up for a new route if I survive today and my legs or knees don't hurt too much.}

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Nah, my legs got tired even reading and imagining about the pedals you people did today.

Btw that was the detective sun sending his spies shadows so you can't escape them until you take down the detective sun.

Wooh, that was so long.

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😂

Come on, you can't get tired from reading 😆

We will see if Detective Sun will have to work and send spies these days again ;)

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oh wow... Anja looks amazing... a chrome heron!?! It looks huge!

Funnily, my actifriend @danmaruschak, he goes walking through his local park in the US... I think in Eugene Oregon if my memory serves me right, they have a kind of similar looking chrome heron sculpture... I wonder if there's a relation or if that's just a coincidence... 🤔

P.S.: after a little googly googling, my memory did serve me right. here's their heron: https://eu.registerguard.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/08/05/eugene-kicks-off-visual-arts-week-mayors-show-at-first-friday-artwalk-exhibits-meet-artists/65392212007/
according to this arcticle it's by a local artist... so the danube heron and it's likeness are probably just a coincidence.
and for the sake of completeness, here's one of dan's actifitivity posts with the eugene heron: https://hive.blog/hive-193552/@danmaruschak/actifit-danmaruschak-20240704t041420156z

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Hey Fraenk,

it seems that it is just a coincidence, but how cool you spotted Anja and connected with the other Hiver's post and place. Thank you, I checked the link to the post you left, that one is a pretty heron.

In case you want to see a bit more about this bird you see in my posts, click here and see the beginning of the post ;)

Anja is indeed a grey heron, made of chrome ;)

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ah, interesting! Nov 23... explains why i didn't see that post.

8 meters... wow!

herons are such majestical birds... especially all blinged out in chrome... hehe

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Yeah, posted in November, visited last summer - the photo in that post, and seen by you today. Anja is timeless 😁

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😂 It is a pain that is pleasant and with more practice disappears. Hahaha... You'll be ready. I love that bird!
Muchos kudos para ti y tu sobrina.

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A traditional lunch and a stroll to the town to have ice cream already made me forget about my knees 😂

Now I have to wash my white sneakers as they are destroyed (dirty and green stains from the grass in that jungle 🤦🏻‍♀️)

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Ay...😅 🍦 🤤 ¡Mala! Aquí yo en apagón y lloviendo.

Oye la foto de la flecha... El reflejo en el lago, wuuuuuuaooooo... Genial. 👏🏻

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La lluvia es buena para la tierra y el apagón - no tienes velas? 🕯

Gracias 🍀

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No tengo 🥴. El día que fui a Santiago de las Vegas ví velas, no compré porque son de esas que les ponen a los santos. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Como eso queda cerca del santuario de San Lázaro, o el Rincón, como también se le conoce... (Busca en Google) además esas velas son peligrosas, chisporrotean. Pueden provocar 😆 ya sabes. Mira que estoy habladora. Mejor me callo. Voy a dormir la siesta.

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Velas aromáticas o perfumadas. Pero estas también pueden provocar la necesidad de llamar a 🚒 😆 Ok, mejor siesta entonces 👋

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Jajaja... Tremenda pinta que tienen los Converse ahora.

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Habrá que acostumbrarse a las manchas. no quieren salir 🤷‍♀

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Pfffffff... Yo con un cepillito y cloro ya se las hubiera quitado.

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Ya se están secando 😆

Modo de lavado - cepillo y lavavajillas

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Wow, I haven't imagine you as a biker yet :) I mean I can picture you play the organ with multiple pedals, but a bike trip! Come on!

@nanixxx must envy you ;)

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😂 🤭 no, al contrario, crece mi admiración.

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Hahaha, I can use my legs to push the pedals of various things - piano, organ, car or bicycle 😁

Yeah, when I am in visit to my family we ride the bike sometimes like this with my niece. She is the real biker, I just make her company ;)

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It's been so long since I've ridden a bike that I couldn't even ride for two hours, hahaha I'd be in pain! But I loved this trip and the boats, .... what a beautiful place!!!! 😍

I'm sorry but I can't go with your niece, just seeing you makes my legs ache 🤣

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Two hours and twenty minutes ;P

Those additional twenty minutes would heal the ache in the legs 😂

I was dead too, but later I got back the energy so all good 😉

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You are in great shape! I walk a lot but I haven't used my bike.... for more than 7 years and I don't have one hahaha.

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Is she tryna kill you? Giving you the old bike as she rides the nice road one xDD

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Hahaha, maybe 😂

Well, she offered me a better one but it was too high for me

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She's your niece, should've given you hers hahahaha
looks like a fun ride nevertheless

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Qué experiencias tan hermosas. También las fotos. Disfrutad la vida.

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Esa bici está como nueva, lo importante no es la bici sino la ciclista 🤣. Estás acabando..cómo diríamos por aquí. Más de 2 horas en esa aventura, yo no podría ni 20 minutos jijiji. Otro vez Anja, que lindo lugar, seguimos conociendo. Saludos para todos 🤗

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Verdad, la ciclista puede con todo 😂

Así dicen con el instrumento musical también - un buen pianista sabe tocar en cualquier piano 🎹 ;)

Te acordabas de Anja? 😊
Gracias y saludos igualmente

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Te acordabas de Anja?

Sii, esa escultura está hermosa 🤗

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For the first day on the bike with your niece you were too punished, you wanted to please her and you overdid it. But it was worth it, you showed us some very nice places in your country and we appreciate it.
How is mommy doing, already better? Greetings to all.🤗🥰

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Well, I didn't go on this bike trip just to please her ;) It was also my wish to spend some time together with her in this way. And if it is not raining in the next two hours, we go again today, on a different route 😃 (hopefully shorter hahaha)

Thank you, mom is doing well, you will see what she prepared for us when you connect the next time and open my post 😇 Thank you, and I hope you are well too.

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That's a nice ride you made with your niece! The bicycle doesn't even look that bad. At least it has some gears and it is better than a bicycle that is too big. But when I compare it with your neices road bicycle she has the better bicycle of the two, haha!

But you made it! And you have had a better exercise than she did 😉


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Not that bad, and I used it again yesterday. Well, I use it every day for short errands in the town but for the adventures with her too. Yeah, hahaha, more exercise for me XD

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nice tranquil area to cycle, thing is I bet you didn't wear a crazy cool helmet like @nanixxx !!!!

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Quite an biking adventure your niece and you took upon yourselves, especially with you having to agree beforehand to "no complaints" @mipiano 🚵‍♀️

I noticed that if you positioned Anja a little lower and to the right of your bicycyle it would look as though the ginormous bird was perched and riding on the handlebars! That can be your creative illusion photoshoot next time!

I cannot imagins why you weren't interested in climbing that lovely, tall hunting blind. No telling what or whom you might have found living inside there!😅

(Replying to your older post after I read your latest one and clicked links to go back to catch up)
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Welcome to this post @ninahaskin and thank you for catching up here 😇

When I am here, visiting my family then my niece and I like to go on these bike excursions. I always have fun with her, we get well along.

Hahaha, that would be a cool effect, I haven't thought about that. It would be Anja, the biker 😁

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