CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 387 km round trip from Bremen - roughly 5 h 53 in the saddle. It goes by way of Wadden Sea, National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen, back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen and back through Wadden Sea. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 72 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
In 1404 the merchants of Bremen put up two statements of independence in their market square, a Gothic town hall and a stone statue of a knight, Roland, standing five and a half metres tall with a sword in his hand and a shield at his feet. The town hall was later given a Renaissance front in the Weser style, rich with arcades and sculptures, in the early seventeenth century, and the great hall inside has a ceiling hung with model ships. Roland, who looks out over the square towards the cathedral, symbolised the city's freedom from the archbishop, and a local saying holds that as long as Roland stands, Bremen will remain free. Both were inscribed by UNESCO in 2004.
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Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of is where the day begins. Next is Wadden Sea.
Where the Weser river widens into the North Sea at Bremerhaven, the land and water merge into one of the strangest landscapes in Europe. The Wadden Sea, a shallow stretch of sand and mud flats running from the Netherlands past Germany to Denmark, is the largest unbroken system of tidal flats in the world, and UNESCO protects it as a World Heritage Site. Twice a day the sea retreats, leaving a gleaming plain that birds, seals and worms use as a feeding ground, and twice a day it comes back, quickly and quietly.
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Wadden Sea comes up 47 km in. Next is National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
At low tide, the sea simply leaves. Twice a day the North Sea withdraws from the Wadden Sea, exposing vast flats of mud and sand, channels and banks, where birds feed by the hundreds of thousands and seals haul out to rest. The Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park protects this coast, and together with the Dutch and Danish parts it forms the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2009.
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94 km in you reach National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
Here the Wadden Sea comes right up against the dyke. This is the coast of the Wurster Nordseeküste, between the Weser and Elbe estuaries, a country of low sea walls, drained farmland and wide skies, and the mudflats outside the dyke are part of the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park. Together with the Dutch and Danish parts of the Wadden Sea, the area is a UNESCO World Heritage site, valued above all for the sheer scale of the tidal flats and the millions of birds that pass through on migration. When the tide goes out, it goes a very long way.
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National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen, about halfway. Next is back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen.
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back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen sits at 188 km, about halfway. Next is back through Wadden Sea.
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back through Wadden Sea comes up 235 km in. Next is Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of.
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Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of closes the day.
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of → Wadden Sea is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Wadden Sea → National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen → back through Wadden Sea is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Wadden Sea → Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.