About Jens Jäkel
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- Jens JäkelSeptember 6, 2025
My route today mostly followed the D4 cycle path (Mittelland Route). This route attempts to avoid the main roads and runs along secondary roads through many villages. Especially in the first section, one village ends and the next immediately begins. Thus, Oderwitz, with its Upper and Lower Oderwitz sections
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- Jens JäkelSeptember 5, 2025
Today I started early, as I still had to conquer the 10 km and 600 meters of elevation gain to the source of the Elbe. On the climb, an older gentleman overtook me on an old-style racing bike (the smallest gear ratio was perhaps 40/28). At the top, we exchanged a few words. To reach the source of the
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- Jens JäkelSeptember 4, 2025
Today, I cycled mostly along the Jizera River on Cycle Route 17. Initially, I cycled across meadows, then on sometimes very muddy forest paths, as well as on roads and paved cycle paths, sometimes directly along the banks, sometimes further away to shortcut the river's loops. Around 10 a.m., I arrived
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- Jens JäkelSeptember 3, 2025
In the morning, fog still hung over the Berounka and the meadows. But by the time I reached Beroun, it had dissipated thanks to the strong sunshine. Between Beroun and Karlštejn, high cliffs stand on either side of the river. These were quarried in several quarries for the construction of fortresses
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- Jens JäkelSeptember 2, 2025
It had rained heavily overnight, but around 8:00 it had stopped (for now), and I set off on Eurovelo 4, or Cycle Route 39, toward Prague. The route was mostly off-road, through forests, constantly up and down. The path was sometimes newly paved, sometimes the asphalt was only present in patches, and
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- Jens JäkelSeptember 1, 2025
Today's start was in Gera. From the train station, we cycled through the city park, which has been beautiful since the Buga (German Agricultural Show). From Gera, i.e., from the White Elster River, the D4 cycle path leads to the Pleiße River. You quickly reach the countryside. The suburbs are still villages
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- Jens JäkelAugust 21, 2025
From the campsite, it was only a few kilometers to Bosjön Castle and the former Benedictine monastery. The garden and the church with original pews from 1600 are worth seeing, but the exhibition in part of the former monastery is less so. A 1,000-year-old oak tree stands in the somewhat neglected park
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Today's the final leg. From the Dippoldiswald Heath, we descended to the Rote Weißeritz, in whose valley, alongside the narrow-gauge railway, a (sometimes very narrow) cycle path runs. The valley is so narrow in places that the sun probably only reaches the bottom for a few hours a day. It was particularly
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