The Great Departure









This first cycling day and the two days before had a special flavor for me. I left my parents at the train station in the European neighborhood in Brussels and took my three slow trains to the other capital of Europe, Strasbourg. There I had the chance to meet some of my friends and I felt still at home in spite of having settled back in Belgium in the meantime. This impression was even reinforced on Sunday, when some brave cycling friends (Karen, my kind host, Dragomir, Svetlana and Çosku) joined me for the first stage. At some point I had the feeling nothing had changed and it was just another casual Sunday cycling day with friends of the same kind we did over the last years but having a glimpse on my left at the Black Forest first mountains I realised it was not exactly the same and I started to think about what would come next in the trip. The starting point in the morning was a highly symbolic place: the middle of the Mimram bridge linking France and Germany over the Rhine. In doing so we crossed the first border of my trip and headed to Freiburg together under a grey sky with some light drizzle which ended up in a very generous sun at the arrival at the bottom of the Münster and then turned into a heavy rain when my friends had to take their train back to Strasbourg. 

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