we start out early again – the weather promises to be as perfect as yesterday.

TW560 is fully charged and ready – even with a very complicated infrastructure.

trust me, i'm an engineer!
trust me, i’m an engineer!

getting out of bydgoszcz is quite challenging – as the bridge leading over the river brda seems to suggest 🙂

bromberg's  weird bridge design
bromberg’s weird bridge design

our day is magical. after a few kms on busy roads, we leave everything behind us and cross super-rural poland on single lane roads.

we slowly climb towards a plateau and from there onwards we drive from sleepy village to sleepy village. everyone seems happy and content here. unlike russians, polish people have a slightly reserved attitude towards our TWIKE. many, many photos are taken, but russians still top blog access list after switzerland, germany and india – tightly followed by estonia, latvia and lithuania. (did i mention i love server logs?)

at the end of our first discharge, it took us just one quick glance to decide where to go: a biogas fermenting and energy producing facility!

0.999 MW
0.999 MW

we speak to a young person working on the site. he doesn’t speak any english or german. no problem: google translate works really well! we can converse in two languages with one smart phone between us. 🙂

he gets the manager of the site and he lets us charge at a 32A plug for free – without any further questions asked!

jc feeling cheeky... let's see what happens :)
jc feeling cheeky… let’s see what happens 🙂
my friend... i tell you 0% co2!
my friend… i tell you 0% co2!

as always – and as our long-time blog readers might remember – jc has bought all maps to go with our trip. he loves to use our recharges to check where we are and where we could go next – even if the roads we’ve planned to take prior to our trip aren’t even marked on his maps. (i must concede: i also love looking at old-school paper-based maps!)

charging...checking maps
charging…checking maps

the following pictures shall give you an idea of what we saw during our drive this afternoon:

flowers in rural poland
flowers in rural poland
TWIKE & flowers in rural poland
TWIKE & flowers in rural poland
more of the same
more of the same
endless fields
endless fields
same again, today - beautiful views in poland
same again, today – beautiful views in poland

after a 78 minute recharge – we were at 99% dod – we’re ready for our last few kms today:

brilliant TWIKE'ing
brilliant TWIKE’ing
sun bathed fields
sun bathed fields

tired but happy we arrive at legnica, our starting point for our transversal of the czech republic tomorrow.

4 Replies to “TDB2015 – Day5: rural poland”

  1. Hallo Ihr Zwei, ordentlich reintreten ist die Devise – die österreichischen Schnitzel warten 😉

  2. Ciao Andrew,
    ho letto tutto d’un fiato il diario del viaggio fino ad ora.
    Bello, viene voglia di partire subito!!
    Soprattutto per vedere i video musicali russi con salsicce a colazione!!!
    A quando invece un giro con il TWIKE per la fioritura di Castelluccio di Norcia?
    Buon proseguimento, un abbraccio
    Marta

    1. hi marta,
      thank you for your comment! breakfast with sausages and russian videos are a pinnacle of touristic achievements 😉
      after my recent visit to italy i’m serously considering taking TW560 to umbria for a relaxing trip.
      cu soon!

  3. Freue mich auf jedes instalment. Gute Reise durch CZ, warte auf Zuckermantel Infos. Love an Euch Beide Mama

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