Journal Comments - Grampies Search for the Meaning of Life Spring 2022 - CycleBlaze

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From Grampies Search for the Meaning of Life Spring 2022 by Steve Miller/Grampies

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Sue Price commented on Day 15: Duhnen-Cuxhaven to Nordenham

Happy Birthday, Steve! What a great way to celebrate - doing what you both love to do, exploring the world by bike!

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Tricia Graham on Day 17: Bremen to Buecken

We enjoyed reading it the other evening also.

2 years ago
Tricia Graham commented on Day 17: Bremen to Buecken

As I enjoy your blog I am finding it fun to read our own journey along the Weser

2 years ago
Tricia Graham commented on a photo in Day 17: Bremen to Buecken

It’s broad beans I think. Kens favourite vegetable he grows heeps

2 years ago
Scott Anderson replied to a comment by Steve Miller/Grampies on a photo in Day 16: Nordenham to Bremen

It won’t be quite the same. Note the name of the American species - they’re black, except for the unmistakable orange bill.

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies replied to a comment by Tricia Graham on Day 15: Duhnen-Cuxhaven to Nordenham

What a tragic piece of history!

We are finding not enough time in our days to try for any computer repairs. So we are carrying on with this android tablet. We do know that we will have to stop to get our chains swapped out. They already have 11,000 km on them!

2 years ago
Scott Anderson commented on a photo in Day 17: Bremen to Buecken

Interesting. I’d never thought about the airline’s name before, but you’re right.

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on a photo in Day 16: Nordenham to Bremen

What a story! We have in any event been lucky with not rainy day yet!

2 years ago
Scott Anderson commented on a photo in Day 17: Bremen to Buecken

Now that’s amazing. Nearly as great as an oystercatcher.

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on a photo in Day 16: Nordenham to Bremen

No, this is all news to me. I eny ever seeing anything like this back home!

2 years ago
Rachael Anderson commented on Day 16: Nordenham to Bremen

Great sheep photos!

2 years ago
Jacquie Gaudet commented on a photo in Day 16: Nordenham to Bremen

Good thing you ride with fenders. On Al’s trip through the Pyrenees with his club, many of them got sick. At first they thought they’d filled their bottles with bad water from a village fountain but later learned it was probably due to splashes from wet roads with animal manure splashing onto their bottles.

2 years ago
Scott Anderson commented on a photo in Day 16: Nordenham to Bremen

Eurasian oystercatcher, as you likely already knew. It’s near cousin, the black oystercatcher, is a year around resident back home. You likely saw one on the ferry to Vancouver.

2 years ago
Noreen Bre replied to a comment by Steve Miller/Grampies on Day 15: Duhnen-Cuxhaven to Nordenham

Media coverage on immigration generally seems to get much more attention than the opposite, I guess that pretty much explains these expectations. Thank you for sharing your observations - from personal experience, it's not that common or easy to actually question your own view of the world. Legends say traveling helps with this though ;-)
In fact, about one million people have been emigrating from Germany every year since 2014. This is less than the number of immigrants, but still quite a large number, more than 1 % of the population. It's interesting to note that migratory movements from/to most Schengen countries such as Poland (128.000 to Germany vs. 126.000 back to Poland in 2019) or Bulgaria are quite balanced.

2 years ago
Steve Miller/Grampies commented on a photo in Day 15: Duhnen-Cuxhaven to Nordenham

Yes, you would not want to bury the first container you need to later unload underneath 20 others. The cranes just sounded and acted robotic as they smoothly moved along.

2 years ago