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Day (and night) 594 (2008-12-07): Going home and pictures of Paris @night

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Hey my friends and readers!

I’m going home! Yeah, in half an hour I’m back on the bike and cycling towards home (with the small detour I’d mentioned before).

Because Christmas is pretty close, I just want to inform you that I’ve updated my wishlist. I want to invest quite some time into the website after my return, update gigabytes of high-quality pictures, edit many of them and maybe even do some video editing. I’ll put a lot of data with distances from the trip online and hopefully make the website a richer ressource for fellow touring cyclists and for you, my readers.

Probably some help from my readers might boost the progress of that work tremendously, as I’m not able to do any picture or video editing on the 6 year old iBook I’m sitting in front of right now. Just get in touch with me if you can help me in some way and maybe want to give something back for the work I’ve put into all the postings and pictures or compensate for the operation costs of the website or the investments I had to put in the equipment - maybe you have a quite usable notebook at home yourself that’s just collecting dust? My e-mail is daniel (at) sonnefueralle (pt) de and you can also contact me through the comments section on this post and I have a PayPal account with the same address as the e-mail.

Anyway, here are some more pictures from Paris:

Paris at night, 4 crazy CouchSurfers ready to explore the night

Together with my CouchServer, my host Kamel and two CouchSurfers, Natahlia and Barbara, we went out for a photo shooting session last night, and that’s what I brought home.

Paris at night, Eifel Tower

Paris at night, obelisk illuminated

Paris at night

Paris at night, reflections of the Opera

Paris at night, obelisk

It was an amazing drive through the winter Paris and I say a big THANK YOU to my CouchSurfing host Kamel!

All the best,

Daniel, who’s hitting the road now again!

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Bald verlasse ich Beijing!

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I have put some videos from my mobile and camera on my YouTube Account, have a look. Today I will have sent my bicycle back to Germany. Here I want to thank some people who have helped me a lot with logistics: my neighbour and logistics manager Norbert, who also found a sponsor (Kühne und Nagel) for transporting my bicycles, my father and second logistics manager Elmar for arranging so many things in such a short time and my sister Verena for packing and catching up the bike! You are great and without you I would have to walk through Australia :-)

Yesterday evening I met Sebastien again and two other French touring cyclists who are around right now. Together with some really funny CouchSurfers we had a great and entertaining evening!

CouchSurfing and touring cyclists meeting, Beijing

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Auf Rohloff Homepage erschienen - ergaenzt!

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Hey guys, check this out:

Beijing to Paris 2007 Carfree on Recumbent Bike 

Furthermore I have decided to go through Tibet with a friend, Marc, from the Netherlands. Together we’ll use his tent and stove. The idea came up a long time ago and now I am here and have the time - the Bicycle Film Festival in Sydney which I’ll attend starts at the end of November, so there’s plenty of time left :-)
I have bought a SIM card from China Mobile here in Kashgar and can now be reached for e.g. 1,5-2 ct/minute from Germany (01037, 010029, 01017, billiger-telefonieren.de) under this number: 15 88 6898 453 - I am looking forward to your calls :-P

bringing the bike over a not too stable bridge

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Artikel in der Heilbronner Stimme.

Heilbronner Stimme Artikel vom 6. Juni 2007 

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Neuer Routenverlauf.

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I’ll have to modify my start date at home quite a bit because the producer of my recumbent, HPVelotechnik, has agreed to check the bike before I leave. It’s not far from my home, so that I’ll be able to get there in a reasonable time. Therfore I’ve updated the route page in Germany.

Thanks to HPVelotechnik for working hard to make this possible, even though they’re in a hard situation (moving to another production facility) right now!

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