Germany: Criss-crossing the deep divide

A curious visitor checks out our hardware, covered against the rain.

Half-timbered houses and narrow cobble streets in Bleckede

A fellow cyclist; Elbe river bike path

Sheep are a constant variable on both sides of the Elbe river, the former East and West Germany

Filming a television series; Domitz


Fellow bicycle tourists get strange looks from the locals

Shopping the artist's corner; Dresden

Moulding silver for a pendant in the artist's quarter; Dresden

Water and buildings make a massive soundchamber out of this Hamburg port, and five tolling churchbells are amplified to sound like hundreds, echoing off the walls every hour, on the hour.

Hamburg industrial port on the Elbe river

Germany's major train stations double as malls

Beer - ample reward after a long day's ride

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