After cycling through 10 European countries, meeting numerous helpful people and enjoying unique landscapes of all the wonderful countries we made 9.000 km as we arrived in our hometown Görlitz. In the past year we learned a lot about different ways of life, different kinds of food but also about agriculture, painting or taking care of animals.
Let's turn time a little back and go on with the story where we stopped last time:
After visiting Steffens sister in Vienna we cycled through the hottest days and experienced the most horrible night full of mosquitos. In the past weeks it was raining a lot around the boarder of Austria, Slovakia and Czech Republic so many mosquitos had the chance to reproduce in huge amounts. After all day cycling we looked for a place to sleep. Since We were close to the Austrian village Hohenau an der March where are numerous lakes and rivers we decided to cycle away from the humid area up north to have a mosquito-free night. We cycled half an hour and found a nice place. It was an abandoned sandy parking place right next to some mining region. We sat down and relaxed because we were very exhausted from the heat of the day. It was so abandoned here that we saw rabbits and a deer jumping around. They looked at us and walked calm away. As it started to get dark suddenly Mosquitos appeared so we decided to cycle further. We packed all our stuff together and went on cycling until we found a hunting lodge. Behind this lodge it was a perfect place for the night but a few minutes later even here mosquitos came so we cycled on. It was crazy because everywhere we stopped we got immediately bitten by them. We cycled and cycled and it became late...than we came into a little village where we decided to find a place to sleep. We saw a beautiful church and behind this church was a big green meadow with a stone fence around. It was the perfect place to hide in a village. We unpacked our mattresses and sleeping bags because there were only a few Mosquitos. After we laid down we fall asleep immediately.
Around 2 o'clock in the morning Eva woke up because of bright lights. It took her a while to realize that there is a storm really close. The wind started so Eva woke Steffen up and we both started to pack very fast because the wind got stronger. We hurried in order to find a shelter. Luckily on the other side of the street was a big access to the fire brigade and it had a big roof so we were hiding here. It was such a crazy place to sleep because it was a passage for the fire department and for pedestrians so it had really bright yellow light in here. Luckily we were so tired that we fell asleep anyway and did not care about the fact that we felt like homeless people. We had some dry place to sleep that was the most important thing. We guess no one noticed us here even though we felt like living in a goldfish bowl...
