It’s Kick-Off Day!

[Day 1]

Yes, that”s right. the Countdown above is now counting up. That means we have finally started our trip!

After a very busy week full of last-minute tasks and finishing our university essays, we are now officially on the road. This morning we drove our – quite overloaded – bikes to the Peace Palace, where some of our friends were already waiting for us to wish us good luck on the road. From there we put our first destination in our GPS – Rotterdam! And as you can see in the picture, we did make it after a beautiful two-hour cycle along the famous Dutch canals. Here we are staying with our classmate Yora Veerkamp for the night – Thanks Yora!

Besides being warmer than expected we encountered our first companion, which we haven’t planned with. There were many grass pollen flying around and Timo is contrary to the usual quite affected by them. Running nose, constant sneezing and dry eyes, he got it all. We’ll see how it goes during the next couple days and hope that it doesn’t have too big of a impact on his physique over the long run.

To be continued… 🙂