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Andy's bike touring career
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A Tour through Southern Europe: Switzerland, France, Italy (1983) |
This was my first bike tour. I started in Kronach, my home town in North Bavaria, Germany. From there I rode to Switzerland, to Lyon, southward in the valley of the Rhone, through the Provence, along the Cote d'Azur and the Riviera, across the Apennin Mountains and the large plaine of the River Po. Then I went across the Alps and through Austria back to North Bavaria. Altogether I covered 3700 km in 18 days.
Tour in the Austrian Alps and Hungary(1984) |
Starting from Kronach again, I cycled to Vienna, and then to the Balaton Lake / Hungary. From there through Austriaand across a number of alpine passes to Bavaria back to Kronach. This was 1800 km in 13 days.
Denmark and Norway: Crossing the Arctic Circle (1985) |
From Flensburg in North Germany (where I arrived by train) I cycled to the north coast of Denmark. There I took a ferry to Cristiansand / South Norway. Along the Norwegian coast I rode to Oslo and from there via Lillehammer to Trondheim on the road E6. I continued north, crossing the polar circle and arrived in Bodö. From there I took a ferry to the Lofote Islands and Vesteral Islands. From Fauske I took the train back to Kronach. On this tour I covered 4500 km in 32 days.
A rough round-tour on Iceland (1987) |
Arrival on Iceland by flight to Kevlavik. From Reykjavik I started South, along the coast to Skaftafjell. There I visited the largest glacier in Europe, the Vatnajökull. Of course, I was the fist biker, to ride on the hughe glacier shield in over 1000 m a.s.l.! From there I went on to Egilstadir in East Iceland, to the waterfall Dettifoss and to the lake Myvatn. From Akureyri I turned into the high plateau on the Sprengisandursvegur. Then, I took the road through the center of the island, which is very desert-like, to Landmannalaugur. From there I went to the Gullfoss, and visited the geysers. After a visit to Thingvellir I returned back to Reykjavik. From there I did another short trip to the Vestmanneyja Islands. This tour was 2000km in 25 days and often rough roads!
A tour through Belgium, England, Wales and Ireland (1988) |
From Brussles / Belgium I rode to Gent and Dünkirchen. From there I took a ferry to Ramsgate. After a trip through all of South England, I rode to Exeter, Bristol and Wales. From Fishguard I took the ferry to Rosslare in South-East-Ireland. Along the southern coast I rode to Killarney, where I visited the National Park. From there I rode the 'Ring of Kerry' and to Dunquin (Dingle), to the Cliffs of Moher and visited the Aran Islands. Through the Burrans I went to Galway. From there I crossed the Island back to Dublin, from where I returned to Germany by ferry and train.
A crazy tour in Southern Greenland (1989) |
Together with Winfried Napp-Zinn, a friend from Cologne, we took a flight from Copenhagen to Nassarssuaq in South Greenland. For four weeks we explored the areas around Narssaq and Qaqoroq per mountain bike. It was mostly off-road! There are no extended trails outside settlements in Greenland, so we had to fight with swampy and rocky terrain. This tour was a trip between backpacking and off-road biking. But we have been the first guys, who ever had realized a bicycle tour in Greenland.
A tour East after the opening of the borders (1990) |
Together with the friend Norbert Hetz I decided to explore the new countries that have openend also for bikers: The Czech Republik and Slovakia. From Bayreuth, North Bavaria, Germany we cycled to Pilsen and continued to Brünn. From there on we went to Olomuc, Gottwaldov, Zilina and some Slovakian mountains. We spent some time in the Fatra and the Low Tatra and the High Tatra and also in the Karpartian Mountains in eastern Slovakia. At the Ukrainean border we were not allowed to continue East. So, from Kosice we took a train back to Cheb and cycled back to Bayreuth. This tour was 1800 km in 17 days.
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Public presentations
Overview of the dates for our public multimedia shows from various tours. More…
Books
We have published the following books (in German): More…
DVDs
A DVD version of some of our tours is available. More…
Clouds and weather
A picture gallery of spectacular clouds and weather phenomena we experienced on various tours. More…