202 to Chaozhou 7.2.2019

Stamps along ways – I wonder what it wanted to explain (Chaozhou, cultural exhibition)

It was the second hotel in China with breakfast and because of the shorter tour of this day (76km), I could take it without feeling stressed, although it started late, 7:30.
And I was not stressed when a few minutes after leaving, Mr.G “saw” a street where I saw houses, so I had to sidestep on a street that Mr.G didn’t see. In such a case, you only see a triangle, symbolizing you on the bike and not much around. Mr.G is confused and shares this confusion with you.
So, it was good to have mapsme, too. This is not a very precise map, but you can locate your position and see some streets. On that map, too, was no road to see where I was driving and when I continued driving, there was no road where I was driving, even in reality. But a path. A narrow one, that became so narrow that better no one should come from the other side (and apparently, no one was motivated to go there). But after a few minutes, the path became a gravel road and this one lead into a normal road and suddenly Mr.G peeped that we are on the route again. That surprised me, I thought it would be somewhere left from this street, but it was ok for me ?

this vehicle builds the road on which it is driving – I should learn that, too!


The rest of the tour, we stuck together, Mr.G and I, we had a good time, mostly on big roads with extra bicycle lane.

Today again, many people smiled, greeted or took photos when they passed me, or I passed them. Why this? Other, more extrovert people? The holidays? By chance? Two guys on a motorcycle accompanied me for a while, first filming and then communicating via translate app. In the end, they wanted to make a selfie (and I didn’t forget the “revenge-selfie” ? )


In Chaozhou, it was again impossible to find the hostel without help, but it was easy to get help, people offered it.

the green arrow points to the correct location


In the hotel, I had booked a dormitory bed and the room was quite busy. A young man started communication in English and then invited me to join him when he met his friend. So, Leo, his friend and the friend’s younger brother and I made a city tour

I stretched my arm to take a photo of that information board from over the heads and only in the room saw, that not everybody wanted to record that information

with focus on local food. On Wikipedia, I had found a list of food and written down some vegetarian dishes. And we worked through this list 😀

the “chrytal balls” ? (forgot to write it down)
back at the hotel


I then went back to the room where I not only wrote my diary in uploaded photos, I also chatted with my new “motorcycle-friends” and exchanged emails with Pascal. I just can say: I am excited, the idea slowly turns into a plan!

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