After eating some breakfast and saying goodbye I continued in the direction to Amsterdam again, with next stop in Münster. I stopped after 40 kilometres to eat lunch at 1200.

Before lunch, and also 20 kilometres after lunch, I had some tailwind and it went on in about 26 km/h. The last 30 kilometres were more west-going than north-west, and also the wind direction changed, so it started to get harder, but after some kilometres I got a buddy that was going in the same direction. He left in Telge, I think the city name was, with 12 kilometres left to Münster. Some kilometres before, I got overtaken by a racer bicyclist, and as it is fun to follow someone, I followed him as long as possible. For around three kilometres I was at around 28-30 km/h until he took another turn than were I was going, but it got the time going!
I then arrived at the place where I would couch surf for the night. I got let in, and went up to the door, but Andrea wasn’t home yet. The one who opened was Melissa, who have her birthday tomorrow, and therefore there would be a birthday party for the evening (which I knew since Andrea accepted the request, but it sounded like something nice to do in the evening).
It was a really nice birthday party with much vegan food and good desserts, even though I am always tired after a day of biking!

(This is only part of it!)

Actually, this day not much happened. I woke up really late and started biking around 1200. I was going for at least 100, trying to get 120 kilometres, this day.
On the way I went past a bike shop so I stopped to buy a pair of sunglasses with UV-protection, as I heard I will hurt my eyes otherwise.

I made a stop at a McDonalds to get some rest, wifi, toilet, fries and a cheeseburger. I though I would be able to take 120 kilometres without a problem, but then the rain started.
It really poured down, so I went to buy dinner to hopefully let it by. The problem is my last cash went on the glasses, and Lidl does not take MasterCard. A nice lady offered to drive me to Wez and back, as she could not explain where it was, because they took every card and not only EuroCard. I then tried to find a cheap hostel, but as I found nothing and did not want to go too far, I just pitched my tent somewhere nclose to a lake instead. I think I met the landowner/s, but when they understood I were there because of biking and not fishing, they just wished me good sleep. Went to bed at 2100 again.

This day, I wake up long before my friends. They were so tired after the festival, so I just hanged around, calling friends in Sweden. On the afternoon we went to Ronjas place and ate some sort of brunch. Then, I went into the city to get my new books. As I have only read until number five or six, I felt it was time to read them all from the beginning!

I then started biking at five o’clock. I was going down on a detour to some people I met at the hurricane festival.
Somewhere I made a wrong turn, because I ended up in the woods. Even though it took a long time, it was really fun going through it, but I thing a mountain bike would have been more suitable than my touring bike with luggage!

As I started late, I did not go very far. I bought some ingredients for dinner and then found a place to pitch my tent on after a total of 33 kilometres, and then went asleep at 2100.

The day started with a müsli breakfast with banana, apple, milk and also some other stuff. Then it was time to go again. It felt a little heavy since the ending of the book, and also the weather were a little bit bad. It was gray, raining from time to time, and also it would be strong head wind after Hamburg (10 meter per second).

I started with going to Hamburg, also to get some wifi as I had some calls to do. After the calls it was already lunch time, and you have to eat hamburgers in Hamburg! (According to Johanna.)
I went to Kleine Pause, and ordered a bacon and egg/burg with fries. It was really much, much better than McDonalds, and also pretty cheap for what you get (7.80 euros).

Continuing through Hamburg, I went through the Sankt-Pauli-Elbtunnel. It was a really cool thing, you went down with elevator and then walked beneath the water for 150 meters instead of over a bridge.

After rising up above earth again, I had to go over some small islands before getting out of Hamburg. It went slow, as it were much traffic, and a little bit of confusing where I could go by bike and where not.
The rest of the biking also went pretty slow, around 15 km/h, as I did not want to push, it was raining a bit and I had this strong head wind. I did not hesitate, as I did not have any couchsurfer host that had answered yet.
When I had almost gone the whole distance that day, I was in Heeslingen, trying to find wifi to see if any couchsurfer had tried to contact me, and also thinking about buying dinner. I found a food store, that also had an open wifi, but I couldn’t connect. Therefore, I asked a young couple about borrowing internet. We hooked up our mobile phones and I started looking, even though internet were a little bit slow. I had no answers yet, and while talking, they told me to come to the Hurricane festival tomorrow. I told them I would come, if I got to sleep at their place, and they said yes. Instead of dinner I buying something to drink for the evening, and we went to their place, were I got to shower and got some dinner,, including swedish bread!

Ronja and Vincent, the couple, were expecting another friend over later, and we had a nice time talking and also looking on a movie (300: Rise of an empire) but I started sleeping after half the movie as I was tired after the biking. It will be a fun day tomorrow!