Schlagwort: Diary

The first highlight of the day was the Soomaa National Park. It consits of 4 mires, rivers and woods. As we rode through it, the rivers had high water partly submerging our track. The floods are special for this national park and was spectacular to watch. The next stop was Tori, a village with a nice church and a shop to buy water, desperatly needed by us. After the next 20 km we reached Pärnu, one of the bigger cities in Estonia. It’s located next to the Baltic Sea. We explored the city center with some churches, the central street and the Pärnu river, which released its black waters into the Baltic Sea. We left Pärnu by the road to Latvia. Unfortunately there was no seperate bike lane by the road, which is also a frequently used European Cycle Way. We set up camp right next to to the Baltic Sea, on a dune. We watched the fantastic sunset and swam in the Baltic Sea for the first time on this trip.
Jonas and Lukas

The first half of the day we visited old town of Tallinn. We saw many churches, the wall around the Old Town with some towers and the central square. It was like a throwback to the Middle Ages. In this time Tallinn was a major hansa city. The Old Town was a tourist magnet for people from all nations. At 13pm we left the Old Town and on our way out of Tallinn we saw the „normal“ town with the university and shopping centers. In Kuusalu we bougth our dinner and filled up our water. The reason why we drove to the east was to enjoy the estonian wilderness and the woods. We visited the National Park Lahemaa with its peatlands. Around 18pm we reached Järvi Pärnjärve telkimisala, a small camping spot next to a lake in the middle of the forrest. At this place we weren’t alone but with a group of other tenters. They were doing some kind of asian „sport“ we didn’t know. Fortunately they didn’t attack us and we had a good night.

Distance: 80 km

Jonas and Lukas

At 9am our ferry arrived near Helsinki. After leaving the ship we went by bike to the City Center of Helsinki. Here we parked our bike near Helsinki main station. So we were free to discover the city. First we went to the parliament and the national museum, but without entering the exhabitions. Helsinki’s main square is the Senate Square. Here the Cathedral, the Goverment Place and the House of Estates are located. In the middle of the square is a statue of Alexander II. We also saw the Market Square, the port of Helsinki and St. Jonn’s Church. At 18:00pm we went by Linda Line Express ferry to Tallinn. Unfortunatly in Tallinn it started raining. So we rushed to our campingspot for the night near the beach in the northwest of Tallinn. 
Jonas and Lukas

We woke up around 11am and enjoyed the branch. The ferry has a restaurant, a shop and a bar. We had a 3 bed cabin with a TV and a bathroom. We stayed 29 hours on the ship. Most of the time we spent in our cabin watching SitComs and Olympia or writing this blog. Thanks to our dad we had 3 meals on the ship. 

Jonas and Lukas

After the breakfast we started our adventure by cycling to the closest train station from our home in saxony. We used 5 different trains with 4 changes to get to our destination. Maybe because of the nice weather there were many cyclist out there in the trains and in some trains there was very little room for our bikes. But in the end we arrived in time in the Hansestadt Lübeck. Here we got support by a friend from my university showing us around in the city centre. We started at the „Holstentor“, one of the two remaining gates of Lübeck, built in the 15 th century. The old town of Lübeck is UNESCO world cultural heritage. Exspacaly because of the 7 church towers. We went up on the Jakobi church plattform to look over the city und the region. In the evening we biked to Travemünde, a small town direcly at the Baltic Sea. At 10pm we checked in the the ferry to Helsinki. We were the only pessangers with bicycles on the Finnstar, a ship of the Finnlines company. Around 1am we’re going to bed in our cabins and by 2am we were finally lying down after setting our watches on Helsiki time.

Jonas and Lukas