Globetreter Route

The planned route around the globe

2009-04-18T07:09:00.001-07:00

2009-04-04T02:27:00.000-07:00

2009 and 2010

2008-07-15T05:21:00.000-07:00

The beginning of 2009 instantly becomes another adventure. There is a Measles outbreak in Chad (central Africa) and Medecins Sans Frontieres carries out a massive emergency vaccination campaign to immunize several tenthousands of children before the disease hits their villages. 2004 I had worked in Chad during the large refugee influx from Sudan. So I quickly travel back to N'Djamena and towards the Sudanese border where I coordinate the Logistics activities of the campaign - transport, communication, cold chain management. In early April time has come to return to Germany and continue with my cycling trip. There is still a lot of snow in the Alps. But it's melting!!!

After crossing the alps I head down to Naples via Milano, Ravenna, Bologna, Firenze and Rome. After that, Susan joins me to ride across Sardegna, Corsica and through the beautiful Piemont. We then follow the Mediterranean coast all the way down to Barcelona.

After that west-bound through the Pyrennes to Santiago de Compostella and then south through Portugal until Tarifa (Gibraltar). In 2010 we set across the Straight of Gibraltar to Morocco and follow the Atlantic coast. It takes 3 weeks to cross the Sahara desert into Mauretania. From here we head to Senegal and then 'Inshallah' across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas.

2008

2007-11-14T07:37:00.000-08:00

2008 takes me from Tromso down the incredibly beautiful Norwegian coast. In the city of Bergen I board a ferry to Newcastle in England. Up the green and rainy east coast to Edinburgh in Scotland and all the way to the north shore. In Ullapool I set over to the Outer Hebridies, a group of islands in the north west with old stone monuments and beaches as white as in the Caribean!
Then I decend via Skye to Glasgow and to the capital of Northern Ireland. Down the east coast to Dublin and into the hills of Wales. In Birmingham I visit old friends that I know from the time that I had spent in China. After a while of rest I continue towards Portsmouth and set over to St. Malo in France. The Bretagne and Normandie treat me well. I follow the coast and enjoy the good food and the rough landscape.
Belgium becomes a daytrip because it proves to be a concrete nightmare - whoever is responsible for raping the Belgian coast with cheap cement roads and lame multi-story buildings that pile up one after the other shall burn in hell (cyclists, avoid the Belgian coast!!!).
Happy to be in the Netherlands I find my way to Amsterdam to visit the headquarters of Medecins Sans Frontieres, a relief organisation that I have been working with since 2004. Faster than I know I find myself boarding an airplane direction India where a flood disaster had just happened in one of the poorest regions (Biahr - in the North).
I return after 2 hard months of work, then cycle from Amsterdam to the Black Forest in the south of Germany. It is now November and the way over the Swiss Alps is blocked with snow.
So I decide to spend Christmas and New Years once more on my brother's Huskyfarm in northern Norway.

October/November 2007

2007-11-14T07:36:00.000-08:00

The first leg of the journey takes me 30 days and 2607km from Berlin through Sweden and Finland to Tromso in the north of Norway.