Km on the clock: 530
The next morning I enjoyed the breakfast buffet including rolls, scrambled eggs, yogurt, orange juice and hot fresh brewed coffee. I sat at the window, looked out of the window across the market place to the church and asked myself: How can I protect myself from the heavy rain if it would be as bad as the days before? First, I decided to arrange myself better plastic bags than the ones I had the day before. Seriously, the yellow plastic bags are not recommendable. Second, I should get some rain shoes to make sure that my feet would stay dry and warm. I asked the hotelier for plastic bags. He kindly gave me some big blue ones which made a way more solid impression to me than the yellow ones. I went to every single sports and bike shop that I could find in this small town to ask for rain shoes. There was only one shop which had a single pair of them. Unfortunately they were too small for me. Going to all of these shops also gave me the chance to do some sightseeing in Meiningen. I visited Elisabethenburg Palace where a primary school enrollment event just ended. I felt a bit sorry for these six years old kids because it was their first day of school in their lives and it had to be on a Saturday. I really hope for them that it will be the only day that they have to attend for school on weekends.
I left Meiningen and started cycling in direction the state Hesse. I was a bit disappointed that I could not get the much needed rain shoes which made me concerned about another day in rainy hell. At the same time I was also glad that I had new plastic bags with me and that it did not rain yet. I hoped that the weather would stay like that for a long time knowing that it would not. The sky was covered with dark grey clouds.
I do not know exactly where but at some point I crossed the 500 kilometers mark that day. It was probably around that time when the heavy rain started again. So I stopped at a bus stop and created a rain poncho and a new pair of rain shoes out of my new plastic bags and celebrated the halftime of Expedition1000GER with a handful of gummy bears. When I realized that I went half way through the country I thought: From now on it is only going downhill. Well, it did not. This area of Thuringia is quite hilly so I had to use the first gear of my bike a lot to climb up the hills. At some point I caught myself making faces while pedaling uphill. I am sure it was not a pretty picture. Everyone who ever went to a gym and observed people lifting heavy weights knows what I am talking about. I arrived the village Richelsdorf in Hesse that evening and decided to stay again at a guest house for the night. The weather conditions just did not allow to camp outside. I even started to ask myself: Why do you even carry all that camping equipment with you? Just send it back home. At the same time I hoped that the weather would become better the next days. There was a group of elderly men at the bar of the guest house looking quite funny at me when I walked in in my plastic bag outfit. I checked in, got some dinner and dried once again my clothes for the next day. If you enjoy reading this blog then please support my fundraising campaign for Doctors without Borders and make a small donation. Cheers!
4 Comments
Yusuf
13/9/2017 16:56:50
Great work dear..
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Chris
23/9/2017 21:26:37
Thanks Yusuf!
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