CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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393 km from Bremerhaven to Bremerhaven, about 4 h 41 of riding. The stops in between: Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of, Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with and back through Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of. It keeps close to the shore for long stretches.
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.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of.
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 comes up about 75 km into the recorded legs. Next is Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with.
There is nowhere in Europe quite like the Speicherstadt, a whole district of warehouses built of dark red brick, rising straight out of the canals as if the water were a street. The buildings date from the 1880s, when Hamburg joined the German customs union and needed a place to store goods outside the customs zone, and they stand on thousands of oak piles driven into the soft mud. Their neo-Gothic gables, turrets and copper roofs make them look like a row of castles, and the streets between them are so narrow that you can touch both sides with outstretched hands. UNESCO recognised the district in 2015, together with the neighbouring Kontorhaus quarter.
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about 196 km into the recorded legs you reach Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with. Next is back through Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of, late in the day. Next is Wadden Sea.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wadden Sea write-up.
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Back at Wadden Sea. That is the ride.
Wadden Sea → Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of → Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with → back through Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of is 121 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of → Wadden Sea is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.