Another bicycle tour around Hamburg, Germany

From Hamburg, Germany, a bicycle or walking road all the way up to Denmark

Having a snack next to the Ochsenweg to Denmark

Two weeks ago we did our 4th bicycle tour since we got our bikes 3 months ago. As I mentioned in my previous posts, we bought a guide with tours around Hamburg: we have done the tour around the Altes Land (check previous posts for this), along the Alster down to the lake, around the Hamburg port and now from Elmshorn to Pinneberg. It was suppossed to be a nature tour, going through several forests.

Different from the past occassions, we left late for the tour, and even worse, we had to take 2 trains in order to get to our starting point. 15 minutes after we rode our bicycles, we were hungry already. We were not lucky later, as the guide had some mistakes, it took us around an hour to find the correct way to follow the tour. We almost gave up.

But once we were on our way, it got very nice and interesting. I just cannot remember the last time I was inside a forest like the ones we saw, and for your information, you can cultivate maiz around Hamburg. Just in case you ever wondered.

My wife explained me later that one of the roads we were driving through, was an ancient way that used to be for commerce between Denmark, middle Europe and Southern Europe as well. You can see in the photos above, an illustration of the road to Denmark and the road next to were we had our second snack.

Later on we saw a Hare, a Deer and what seemed to be a Squirrel to my wife, but it looked to me like a monkey. I know, no monkeys in Germany, but that was not a Squirrel either. Anyway, sadly, the guide had more mistakes and we ended up taking wrong directions and not findind what we were supposed to find. And it was already 20:00.

It was not dark, but I did not want to risk getting lost in the forest. We saw some directions to Pinneberg, our destination, and we were lucky enough to get on a bus to get there. My wife was thinking later that we were a bit of losers, because we failed to do the tour and we cheated with the bus, but I did not care. When we saw how far still Pinneberg was and how late already was, we thought it was the best decision.

Next time we are going to get started earlier, buy a map of the surrounding areas of Hamburg or perhaps a new guide. Still, the tour was nice and interesting.

We rode for 40 km. Including (many) wrong turns.