Auntie Helen's Cycle Tour of Germany

[TheDoctor]

Yes, if you can't pull nails out of the tyres you can file them down a bit.

What?

 

[mike1026]

Bleib Trocken
Bleib Sicher
Bleib Glücklich
Gute Reise
Chuss!

 

[peanut]

12'' Hunting knife from the local army & navy store should do the trick...

I said a knife not a tooth pick lee
http://www.whipperleys.co.uk/acatalog/machete_info_144.html

 

[peanut]

Have a name and address label with next of kin details packed in my bags. have included medications to which I am allergic.

could I suggest that you print those details on a small adhesive backed label and stick one visible on the bike so that anyone finding you have that info immediately to hand. At least a next-of-kin fone number . No one is likey to rummage through your bags at the scene of an accident (god forbid)

 

[Auntie Helen]

Good point - I might cable-tie it to the trike somewhere, or maybe even put it on my seat so if I have an accident and fall off, it becomes visible.

 

[grhm]

My only suggestions would be a plug, the sink type not electrical, it may not be needed but I have stayed in places where they don't put plugs in the sinks, which make washing in them a bit more tricky.

Like this

One of our scouts has hiked aboard and he too found some cheap places don't have plugs. He found a old squash ball (possibly cut in half) worked wonders in many different sized plug holes. Just a thought.

Make sure you take a tupperware type container to hold biscuits/cake etc purchased on route. Can't be going all that way for stale cake .

 

[peanut]

Good point - I might cable-tie it to the trike somewhere, or maybe even put it on my seat so if I have an accident and fall off, it becomes visible.

it'll probably come unstuck and stick to your bum in which case they'll have to upend you to read your particulars

 

[Auntie Helen]

...and I'm ready to go, all packed and trike fettled and cleaned (well, a quick wipe-down with a wet cloth anyway). I'm very happy I've fitted everything in two panniers and a mini rucksack.

Setting off at about half past seven tonight so I get to Harwich in the daylight. And what a fab day it is to be setting off on a three week tour.

My husband's going off sailing to the Channel Islands with a friend. He has three large sailing bags full of stuff, so it just goes to say that women don't always have the most luggage!

 

[peanut]

quite an adventure Helen.

Have a wonderful time and a safe journey.

 

[topcat1]

Have a good time and take loads of photos.

 

[Kirstie]

Wow - have a brilliant time! I'm very jealous!

Could I suggest hand washing liquid decanted into a smaller bottle? Many B&B owners may actually offer to wash your kit if you ask nicely, so it's a fall back really.

 

[summerdays]

Have a great time ... take lots of photo's and remember to eat some cake

 

[Auntie Helen]

in Köln, had a really hrd day tday on the trains with trk, pluskept getting lost. Bad compuer, sorry. Hope to have better day tomorrow, aiming for Koblenz.

 

[Haitch]

had a really hrd day tday on the trains with trk, pluskept getting lost. Bad compuer, sorry. Hope to have better day tomorrow, aiming for Koblenz.

Think positive. Foreign landfall successfully negotiated, triumphed over the railways and dawn over the Rhine valley awaits.

 

[Andy in Sig]

It'll be plain sailing from now on Helen: just keep the water on your left and don't go in to it and stay off the railway line to your right.