Welcome to the 17th day of our bike packing trip in Europe in 2023. I hope you enjoyed Göttingen yesterday Today Timo and I will ride together from Göttingen to Eschwege A 62 kilometres trip including 380 metres of elevation The trip goes directly from Göttingen to Arenshausen, where we reach EuroVelo-13,
Which we continue on until Eschwege, where we sleep at Knaus Camping Göttingen is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany The River Leine runs through it. Its population is 118.911. It’s really nice here Yeah It’s nice downhill, but not so nice uphill No
We are heading towards the place, where we meet EuroVelo-13 The town left of us is Friedland Which is … 17 kilometres from Göttingen We are around halfway the place we meet EuroVelo-13 Here we see the EuroVelo-13 sign We are on track We have reached Neuseesen Nice village
Neuseesen is located near the border triangle of Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony, approximately 4 km east of Witzenhausen and 18 km northwest of Eschwege in the valley of the Siesterbach, a right tributary of the Werra. The village has 83 inhabitants. Oh, it’s just a house! I thought it was a church
Bad Sooden-Allendorf is a spa town in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis in Hesse, Germany. Its population is 8,394. Border museum Bad Sooden-Allendorf? I think … Exactly We have just ordered frozen yogurt One with water melon and one with blueberry And a back coffee of course What do you call this in German? Fachwerkhäuser What?
Fachwerk Fafw …? Fachwerk Again? Fachwerk We call it bindingsværk It’s the type of structure with wood We have left Bad Sooden-Allendorf We have around 19-20 kilometres to Eschwege Which is our destination today
The Werra a river in central Germany, is the right-bank headwater of the Weser. Werra is 292 km long. The Werra has its sources in Thuringia. Now we reach our accomodation at Knaus Camping On this map, you can see today’s route compared with the EuroVelo-13 route
The red one is the Eurovelo-13 route and the blue one is today’s route Today we cycled directly from Göttingen to Arenshausen From Arenshausen we followed EuroVelo-13 stage 88 to Neuseesen From Neuseesen we followed stage 89 to Eschwege Stage 88 is 134 kilometres in total and starts in Ilsenburg and ends in Neuseesen
Stage 89 is 173 kilometres in total and starts in Neuseesen and ends in Hilders Tomorrow we follow stage 89 towards Hilders But let’s fly the trip together, so we can enjoy it from a bird’s eye view In the comment section, you can see a link to the trip on Strava
And here you can see today’s route, elevation profile and other information from the trip Fro Strava you can also download the route in GPX-format And use it as inspiration for your own trip if needed This GPX-file can be loaded into common navigation equipment and apps on your phones
This could be a Garmin GPS or some apps such as Komoot or RideWithGPS Thank you for travelling with me I hope you will ride along the rest of the trip, which you can do by following or liking me here If you have questions or comments, you are welcome to contact me
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Today's trip: https://www.strava.com/activities/9822837600