Day: September 19

Moving to Germany

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After two years of London I decided it was time for a new adventure and move to Germany to work there. Being Austrian I had visited Germany before but living there would be new. The language barrier hopefully wouldn’t be too big and my plan was to follow a friends invitation to work on the next Season of Game of Thrones. So on a warm Saturday afternoon after packing my bags I set off to Dover to cross to France by ferry.

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I didn’t have much time to reach the ferry. In fact I knew it was going to be close. Luckily the roads were empty except for that huge huge traffic jam I encountered half way.

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With a car I would not have made the ferry. While everybody was waiting and people were getting out of their cars I was going slow and steady between them. I reached the ferry terminal twenty minutes before the closing of the terminal.

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It was a short trip and after 45 min the ferry reached Dunkirk, France around midnight. I didn’t waste any time and kept pushing on to Bruges, Belgium right away.

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At 2AM I reached a hostel where I had made a reservation once more using the hostelworld app.

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Bruges is famous for it’s medieval architecture and it’s Venetian canal city center layout. I knew Bruges mostly from the very entertaining and dark movie “In Bruges” which shows the city in winter covered in snow.

Finding my room at the BAUHAUS hostel proved a bit difficult but I did get some much needed sleep and a rudimentary but included breakfast the next morning after which I drove to the city centre for some sightseeing.

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No wonder this place was used for movies. It looked like straight from a fairy tale.

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This little tavern really was as little as it looks.

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Spain 38 – Coming home

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I left Madrid in the evening heading for Bilbao where I wanted to spend the night before finally driving to Santander to catch the ferry back home to England.

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I reached Bilbao in the evening spending the night at a not so cozy hostel at the outskirts of the city. There were lots of mosquitoes and the place looked and felt as sterile as a prison. I parked the bike a few streets away a little concerned if it was still going to be there the next day.

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But it was and in the morning I continued to Santander. I boarded the ferry and enjoyed the view from the various decks of the ship before falling asleep in my cheap cattle class seat.

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The next day the white cliffs of the coast of England announced our arrival.

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I disembarked the ferry…

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… greeted as it should be by the congested traffic of London’s roads. At least I didn’t have to worry about driving on the wrong side.

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After almost two months my journey through the south western tip of Europe had come to an end. With considerably less tread on my tires, many thousands miles more on the odometer, huge numbers of captured images on my hard drives and an infinite amount of wonderful new memories I parked the bike in front of my flat already wondering where my next trip would lead me to.

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