17.5.2023  -  12.5 km / 62 hm.    Seengen - Kiel

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At 7:15 my bike trip to the far north starts together with Urs and Roswitha in Seengen. With a last photo in front of their house, we start fully packed on the bike our first stage to Lenzburg.

It turns out that we haven't been on the SBB with bikes very often, we board the train through the wrong door and block the passage completely. There follows a short intermezzo in the station Aarau so that the journey to Basel can be continued a little more comfortably.

There we enjoyed a last espresso and a croissant, then we stowed our bikes in the backmost wagon of the DB to take our seats in the frontmost wagon.

To our astonishment, the train leaves Basel with Swiss punctuality and to our even greater astonishment, the delay to Kiel adds up to a paltry 15 minutes. This after the union of the DB employees had threatened with strike and train cancellations the day before.

With full vigor we take the first few kilometers to the hotel under the wheels. When we check into the hotel, we have to overcome the next hurdle: the second room key is missing, which should have been deposited. Since we arrive on a holiday, in the German gastronomy staff shortage prevails, we are lucky that a randomly still present employee can help us out of the jam.

For dinner we get back on the bike. Ride to the restaurant "Kiek ut", located directly by the sea, where our hunger is satisfied with local delicacies.