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Discovering Madeira on a Mountain Bike

It’s been 20 fabulous months, but now my travelling time is over. I’m back in Chambéry, trying to get my own game projects going, working from home. It can’t be without some smaller trips though and so Christian and I decided to do a mountain biking trip in November. Since the weather is not that stable in central Europe at this time of the year, we started searching elsewhere. Corsica, Mallorca, the Canaries? Could we…

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Cycling Berlin - North Cape

From cheap to free travel in Norway

According to a report of the worldbank from 2014, Norway and Switzerland are the two most expensive economies in the world. That doesn’t make Norway the ideal travel country, does it? Food prices are high, alcohol and cigarettes heavily surtaxed, petrol prices are the highest in Europe and there’s an extensive toll system in place on the major roads of southern and central Norway. Of course the latter doesn’t apply to cyclists. Neither did we…

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Cycling Berlin - North Cape

Horst im Glück

(sorry, once more in German) Irgendwo auf der E6 trafen wir heute einen Motorradfahrer, der auf den Boden starrte und sich langsam von seiner stattlichen BMW entfernte. “Is everything alright?”, fragte ihn Simon. “Och, ick such hier sone Schraube”, kam gleich auf deutsch zurück. Seit er vom letzten Rastplatz losgefahren sei, hätte sich von seinem Pedal für das Schalten der Gänge eine wichtige Imbusschraube gelöst und nun stecke er im 5. Gang fest. Da der…

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