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Thanks everybody for ordering the calendars.😘 All calendars are sent and should be with you now. If a calendar went missing please write me 😊📝
Thanks for the great replies so far and very special thanks to Christian and Jutta (@fasanengarten) for sending me this lovely picture. 🐕😃💕
I hope that the calendar will be a good companion through this upcoming year 😊
Home sweet home 🏡😊💕🐕 Zuri and I made it back to Germany! And we got surprised by a rather uncommon winter wonderland. 😍👌After being with such wonderful people the last year it will be hard to adapt being alone again but the good thing about it is, that I have more time than ever to finalize all the videos from mine and Zuris cycling adventures for Youtube 😁🎉 you can find us on YouTube with 43 videos already. Just type in my name Iris Joschko 😀🐕🚴🏼♀️
I hope you all had a good Christmas🎄🎅😊. Zuri and I are still stuck in the UK and will celebrate the new year here as well. Our next attempt to go back home to Germany will be on the 3. Of January. Fingers crossed 🤞
I used my additional time here and designed the calendars for 2021. Since the pictures, that you wanted where so different from each other, I decided that everyone gets exactly the pictures they choose.
I will get the calendars printed tomorrow, so if someone wants one, you have until tomorrow morning (31.12) to choose your favorite pictures under this link:
https://www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
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Ich hoffe, ihr hattet alle ein schönes Weihnachtsfest🎅🎄😊. Zuri und ich sitzen immer noch in Großbritannien fest und werden auch in das neue Jahr hier reinfeiern. Unser nächster Versuch, zurück nach Deutschland zu kommen, wird am 3. Januar sein. Drückt uns die Daumen 🤞
Ich habe meine zusätzliche Zeit hier genutzt und die Kalender für 2021 gestaltet. Da die Bilder, die ihr euch gewünscht habt, so unterschiedlich ausgefallen sind, habe ich beschlossen, dass jeder genau die Bilder bekommt, die er sich ausgesucht hat.
Ich werde die Kalender morgen drucken lassen, wer also einen haben möchte, hat bis morgen früh (31.12) Zeit, sich unter diesem Link seine Lieblingsbilder auszusuchen:
https://www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
Happy Christmas to you 🎅🎄❤️ I hope that you had a lovely time today whereever you celebrate today.
After not being able to go home the day before yesterday I was quite sad yesterday to have Christmas without my family. We Germans have our big Christmas day on the 24. So it was quite strange for me to have a rather "normal" day yesterday since here in Britain Christmas is celebrated on the 25. But today was a really nice day. We had a really nice walk with some friends of a friend, I could borrow a Christmas outfit, had a really nice vegan Christmas dinner, Zuri got spoiled with bones and real turkey and we even had a beautiful sunset. And I think I got the cutest Christmas wrapping ever (a present wrapped as a dog 😍). A nice Christmas over all and I am one experience richer experiencing Christmas in a different culture 😀 but fingers crossed that the border chaos in Dover will end in a couple of days and Belgium is allowed transit soon so that I can go home to see my family.. ❤️
I give up.. After over 12 hours waiting at the port in Dover without seeing any movement I am trying to find my way out of here. Belgium also closed the borders for German transits, so another obstacle on the way. I spoke with the police and they said it takes so long because they are testing 30 people at a time very very slowly. Even after 12 hours waiting I had still at least 500 cars in front of me.. Truck driver are not even getting a test. They get send straight back to the testing units on the motorway... 🙄 What a system..
I'm tiered and so is Zuri.. We're on our way back to Germany and stuck in Dover for 5 hours now. Less than 1 km to the port but the port is closed for hours now. They say it is because some truck drivers are protesting because they have no toilets and that the police just closed the harbour for everyone until they stop. Now people from different backgrounds walking on the streets and mixing with one another before going back to all these European countries and all this in tier 4, where all the inhabitans themselves have a strict lockdown. Sounds like a virus accelerant to me. I'm still having a 9 hours journey ahead of me as soon as we can move again...and I am on my way already for another 9. I didn't even know if I was able to go back yesterday because Germany banned all transports of foreign people and German residents to the country until the end of the year (even with a negative covid test!) and the French first only wanted to open the border to their own citizens... Now the French border is officially open but the port in Dover remains closed with 1000s of people in front of it like me desperate to go home..
Und noch einmal die Nachricht auf deutsch 📮🎄😁🐕
We just saw this beautiful self made mailbox cover in Christmas style on our evening walk. Have you seen similar things in your area? 🐕🎄😍📮🌃
Thank you for all the support this year, for all the comments and lovely private messages, that motivated me to upload more pictures + videos and that kept me going through the struggles and adventurous bits of our journey. ❤️
As a thank you I made a calendar with motivational quotes this year that will hopefully help you to follow your own dreams and passion.
Believe in yourself and the earth becomes a magical place!
✨If you want to help choose the pictures or reserve yourself a copy follow the link in my profile on Instagram or below the video.
I wish you a happy Christmas 🎄and a good start for 2021 after this difficult and challenging year!
https://www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
Zuri and I have been on the road again! What a great feeling to be back in the saddle. Way to much time passed since we came back from Scotland. We went on a day trip to #clumberpark and cycled 25 km around there. We went through this area on our way to Scotland on the Cyclepath 6. I didn't remember from the name of the place but I remembered right away when we got there. It brought the last cycling journey back to life because I remembered the struggles we went through on this day with all the barriers in the forest 😬🚴🏼♀️🐕 but luckily this was a few km north from there. Even Zuri knew the way around the area straight away 😅🐕 it's a beautiful place and we'll worth a visit! ❤️👌🚴♂️
Zuri is getting herself ready and is making space for her winter coat. She is loosing bags of hair right now 🐕😬 what could be better than to share the hair with her dog friend George, who is always freezing. He got a nice winter coat filling now. It is already tested and approved 😁❄️👌🐕
To cycle in the UK this year was a completely different but also much the same experience as last year. 🐕🚴The weather at the beginning was tough. It rained so much that I was thinking to myself why? - why? I had this crazy idea of cycling in such a wet country. And if rain was not enough the midges had parties around me in between.
Thank you Emma, @soulmadetotravel, @helsains, @tam1645, Tiree, @gill.houlsby, @mcginnis6227, Alison, @amateuremigrant, @2sylwek, @hannaplant, @chammonds92, @zetlandcycles, @cyclingforfood. You turned the frustration and struggle I had into joy. When I started this journey I didn't know what to expect. Would I be treated as an outcast or as a gypsy? People fearing to interact with me because of Covid? I experienced the opposite. Everybody welcomed me with great hospitality and generosity. Once more it showed me that traveling by bicycle gave me the opportunity to see the country much more from the perspective of people living here. I dipped into so many lives, heared so many stories. Everybody's story seems to be different at first but at the end we all want the same.
We all want connection and kindness. It is a challenging time.But it seems that many people used this Corona time to rethink and to restructure their lives to bring more joy into it. Many thought about what is really important and what to do with their time.
Scotland and England has so much to offer.Besides all these amazing and beautiful people living here, I dived into incredible spots of natural beauty and stunning landscapes.I understand why for so many people Scotland is the most beautiful country in the world.It has everything: dramatic and rugged mountain sceneries,breathtaking coastlines with so many sandy white beaches,green valleys, crystal clear rivers,charming little villages,interesting and magical old castles, and many many beautiful lochs.I cycled through ever-changing landscapes - one more impressive than the other and still equal in its uniqueness.Every day I was surrounded by beauty.Once more it was an amazing adventure with many moments of pure joy.It was certainly not the last time I've been to Scotland. But next time I have friends to visit❤
The final day of our journey had arrived. For the last time I slept under the stars without a tent. Nights which I love most 😍I was waking up with the sound of the ocean and a beautiful sunrise and some Zuri kisses 🌅🐕😅. Its been an amazing time. We cycled 2301 km in exactly 5 weeks. We crossed the border to England on our final morning and cycled along the coast until Alnmouth, where we took a train back to Leeds and then Katie, a friend of a friend brought us back to Leicester. I was really afraid on how to manage the train ride. It was the last train of the day and the whole train station was empty. Nobody to help me to get my bike into the train 🚲😬 and I read that ebikes are officially not even allowed in the train. They have 4 specially assigned places for bikes, so it's not as easy as in Germany, where you have lots of room. The train stopped in that way that the area for the bicycle was exactly where I was on the platform. 👍It was not so easy to get the bike up the stairs and the trailer then got stuck there as well. I was so stressed and wanted to do it fast until the constructor came and told me to relax😅 there is no rush. He was very friendly and eventhough my bike didn't even fit in the bike area he didn't say anything against it. He just wanted to know if I and Zuri are OK. 😃👍
We left Edinburgh after 2 nights for our last part of the journey. @hannaplant and I had a great time and we certainly didn't see us for the last time. There is something magical about being on a cycling journey...✨ You are arriving to a complete stranger but you are leaving a friend. 😃❤️
The cycling paths south of Edinburgh are beautiful and very good to cycle on. 👌 We started late and had an easy day with lots of beautiful views of the seaside 👍😃🚴♂️🐕
I had heared a lot of good thing about #Edinburgh, so I was quite excited to feel into and see the city and I have to say I really like it here 😃👌❤️ so many beautiful old buildings, the beach is close by and visible from the two city hills, which give you a nature and hiking feeling in the middle of the city. Also the cycling paths are great! The best was that Hannas flatmate works in a hotel and I got a free cookie when passing by for my day out 😍 quite exiting to explore a city again without the hassle of all the luggage and bicycle stuff.🚴🏼♀️ But I do have to admit that the climbing up the hill part was not that easy after all that cycling also not the fact that Hanna is living in the 3. Floor 😬 😅
It happens so rarely that we have a third person view of our journey, so it's worth an extra post. @hannaplant who invited us to stay with her in Edinburgh took this on our way to her apartment. She is a lovely and inspirational person and a cyclist too and to spoil a little.. we're already thinking of where we could head to together on a joint trip 😁🐕🚴🏼♀️🚴🏼♀️
Sylwia and Julian suggested that I try the chips in a town 50 km south of Aberdeen. While I was sitting there and enjoying my chips Claudia and Frank approached me, who were hiking in the area. They invited me to their home just north of Dundee. I was very happy to not to have to sleep in a tent again and cycled the remaining 70 km to their place. It was a long day but absolutely worth it! They are a lovely couple and I felt very welcomed. They cooked a really tasty meal and I even had my first Scottish Whiskey tasting 😁👌Because I cycled so much that day and I could charge my batteries at their place over night I could make it from Aberdeen to Edinburgh on just 2 instead of 3 days. The day to Edinburgh was really stormy and quite hilly and I could feel my legs from all the cycling of the last days. I was really happy when I finally crossed the bridge into the Edinburgh area. My batteries not quite made it until the city center (97 km) so I stopped in a steak house and asked for a drink and if I can charge my battery. A drink was not possible because they only took people with reservations but I could charge my battery. While I was sitting outside and waiting a waitress came out and brought Zuri and me free water. Mine was even with fresh lemon😍🍋 once more Scottish hospitality as its best ❤️🚴🏼♀️🐕
After an amazing day with Sylwia and Julian, Zuri and I left to cycle further down in the direction of Edinburgh. In Aberdeen they blocked the city centers for cars and all the big roads are now only usable for pedestrians and cyclists. An amazing feeling to have so much space on the road. 😀 They also cut down another big road on the coast side of Aberdeen into half, to give people more space to cycle and walk.🚴🏼♀️❤️ Sylwia baked some dog cookies, which Zuri totally loved. Great snacks for an all day exercising dog 🐕👌❤️ On the way down we went to Dunnottar Castle. Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell's invading army in the 17th century.
Sylwia and Julian invited us to stay with them in Aberdeen. They saw us cycling on their holiday in Skye. 😀🏴 They offered to show me some amazing places around Aberdeen, so I took a day off from cycling and we had an amazing day😍 We went seal watching, to the beach, to some cliffs, saw the Slains castle, who was the inspiration for Dracula's castle and ate some amazing fresh berryfarm icecream. Even Zuri got a little bit 🐕🏴😍 Sylwia is an amazing cook as well and we had some really good conversations too. ❤️ Many people are drawn to the Highlands when they go to Scotland and no doubt they are stunning but the East Coast has some amazing scenery to offer as well 👌😀
What a crazy day! ⭐🍀🏴🐕🚴🏼♀️👷♂️ Bob invited me to his home in Sandend. He is a former adventure tour guide and told me a lot of amazing stories about India and Scandinavia. 😀👌He cooked an amazing tasty curry for me as well! He even bought some vegan food to take away on the next day. 😍My goal was to reach Aberdeen. As soon as I left his house on the beach a bus driver stopped and asked me some questions about my journey then he gave me 40 pounds and told me I should my be some good dinner tonight. I was blown away and very surprised ❤️ on my way I saw some happy pigs! I've never seen pigs outside with so much space in Germany. When I reached Aberdeen I just followed cycle path no 1. I let me into a construction site and then the road stopped and there was a locked gate. I searched for the exit and saw that everything was closed now. Somehow they accidentally locked me in.. Not the best thing at 5.45 pm on a Friday afternoon 😬 so what to do? At one point I just called the house building company. They office was open for another 10 min. A women came out but she didn't have a key, so she needed to call someone else, who came and freed me out of it 👷♂️💪
Thanks everybody for ordering the calendars.😘 All calendars are sent and should be with you now. If a calendar went missing please write me 😊📝
Thanks for the great replies so far and very special thanks to Christian and Jutta (@fasanengarten) for sending me this lovely picture. 🐕😃💕
I hope that the calendar will be a good companion through this upcoming year 😊
Home sweet home 🏡😊💕🐕 Zuri and I made it back to Germany! And we got surprised by a rather uncommon winter wonderland. 😍👌After being with such wonderful people the last year it will be hard to adapt being alone again but the good thing about it is, that I have more time than ever to finalize all the videos from mine and Zuris cycling adventures for Youtube 😁🎉 you can find us on YouTube with 43 videos already. Just type in my name Iris Joschko 😀🐕🚴🏼♀️
I hope you all had a good Christmas🎄🎅😊. Zuri and I are still stuck in the UK and will celebrate the new year here as well. Our next attempt to go back home to Germany will be on the 3. Of January. Fingers crossed 🤞
I used my additional time here and designed the calendars for 2021. Since the pictures, that you wanted where so different from each other, I decided that everyone gets exactly the pictures they choose.
I will get the calendars printed tomorrow, so if someone wants one, you have until tomorrow morning (31.12) to choose your favorite pictures under this link:
https://www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
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Ich hoffe, ihr hattet alle ein schönes Weihnachtsfest🎅🎄😊. Zuri und ich sitzen immer noch in Großbritannien fest und werden auch in das neue Jahr hier reinfeiern. Unser nächster Versuch, zurück nach Deutschland zu kommen, wird am 3. Januar sein. Drückt uns die Daumen 🤞
Ich habe meine zusätzliche Zeit hier genutzt und die Kalender für 2021 gestaltet. Da die Bilder, die ihr euch gewünscht habt, so unterschiedlich ausgefallen sind, habe ich beschlossen, dass jeder genau die Bilder bekommt, die er sich ausgesucht hat.
Ich werde die Kalender morgen drucken lassen, wer also einen haben möchte, hat bis morgen früh (31.12) Zeit, sich unter diesem Link seine Lieblingsbilder auszusuchen:
https://www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
Happy Christmas to you 🎅🎄❤️ I hope that you had a lovely time today whereever you celebrate today.
After not being able to go home the day before yesterday I was quite sad yesterday to have Christmas without my family. We Germans have our big Christmas day on the 24. So it was quite strange for me to have a rather "normal" day yesterday since here in Britain Christmas is celebrated on the 25. But today was a really nice day. We had a really nice walk with some friends of a friend, I could borrow a Christmas outfit, had a really nice vegan Christmas dinner, Zuri got spoiled with bones and real turkey and we even had a beautiful sunset. And I think I got the cutest Christmas wrapping ever (a present wrapped as a dog 😍). A nice Christmas over all and I am one experience richer experiencing Christmas in a different culture 😀 but fingers crossed that the border chaos in Dover will end in a couple of days and Belgium is allowed transit soon so that I can go home to see my family.. ❤️
I give up.. After over 12 hours waiting at the port in Dover without seeing any movement I am trying to find my way out of here. Belgium also closed the borders for German transits, so another obstacle on the way. I spoke with the police and they said it takes so long because they are testing 30 people at a time very very slowly. Even after 12 hours waiting I had still at least 500 cars in front of me.. Truck driver are not even getting a test. They get send straight back to the testing units on the motorway... 🙄 What a system..
I'm tiered and so is Zuri.. We're on our way back to Germany and stuck in Dover for 5 hours now. Less than 1 km to the port but the port is closed for hours now. They say it is because some truck drivers are protesting because they have no toilets and that the police just closed the harbour for everyone until they stop. Now people from different backgrounds walking on the streets and mixing with one another before going back to all these European countries and all this in tier 4, where all the inhabitans themselves have a strict lockdown. Sounds like a virus accelerant to me. I'm still having a 9 hours journey ahead of me as soon as we can move again...and I am on my way already for another 9. I didn't even know if I was able to go back yesterday because Germany banned all transports of foreign people and German residents to the country until the end of the year (even with a negative covid test!) and the French first only wanted to open the border to their own citizens... Now the French border is officially open but the port in Dover remains closed with 1000s of people in front of it like me desperate to go home..
Und noch einmal die Nachricht auf deutsch 📮🎄😁🐕
We just saw this beautiful self made mailbox cover in Christmas style on our evening walk. Have you seen similar things in your area? 🐕🎄😍📮🌃
Thank you for all the support this year, for all the comments and lovely private messages, that motivated me to upload more pictures + videos and that kept me going through the struggles and adventurous bits of our journey. ❤️
As a thank you I made a calendar with motivational quotes this year that will hopefully help you to follow your own dreams and passion.
Believe in yourself and the earth becomes a magical place!
✨If you want to help choose the pictures or reserve yourself a copy follow the link in my profile on Instagram or below the video.
I wish you a happy Christmas 🎄and a good start for 2021 after this difficult and challenging year!
https://www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
Zuri and I have been on the road again! What a great feeling to be back in the saddle. Way to much time passed since we came back from Scotland. We went on a day trip to #clumberpark and cycled 25 km around there. We went through this area on our way to Scotland on the Cyclepath 6. I didn't remember from the name of the place but I remembered right away when we got there. It brought the last cycling journey back to life because I remembered the struggles we went through on this day with all the barriers in the forest 😬🚴🏼♀️🐕 but luckily this was a few km north from there. Even Zuri knew the way around the area straight away 😅🐕 it's a beautiful place and we'll worth a visit! ❤️👌🚴♂️
Zuri is getting herself ready and is making space for her winter coat. She is loosing bags of hair right now 🐕😬 what could be better than to share the hair with her dog friend George, who is always freezing. He got a nice winter coat filling now. It is already tested and approved 😁❄️👌🐕
To cycle in the UK this year was a completely different but also much the same experience as last year. 🐕🚴The weather at the beginning was tough. It rained so much that I was thinking to myself why? - why? I had this crazy idea of cycling in such a wet country. And if rain was not enough the midges had parties around me in between.
Thank you Emma, @soulmadetotravel, @helsains, @tam1645, Tiree, @gill.houlsby, @mcginnis6227, Alison, @amateuremigrant, @2sylwek, @hannaplant, @chammonds92, @zetlandcycles, @cyclingforfood. You turned the frustration and struggle I had into joy. When I started this journey I didn't know what to expect. Would I be treated as an outcast or as a gypsy? People fearing to interact with me because of Covid? I experienced the opposite. Everybody welcomed me with great hospitality and generosity. Once more it showed me that traveling by bicycle gave me the opportunity to see the country much more from the perspective of people living here. I dipped into so many lives, heared so many stories. Everybody's story seems to be different at first but at the end we all want the same.
We all want connection and kindness. It is a challenging time.But it seems that many people used this Corona time to rethink and to restructure their lives to bring more joy into it. Many thought about what is really important and what to do with their time.
Scotland and England has so much to offer.Besides all these amazing and beautiful people living here, I dived into incredible spots of natural beauty and stunning landscapes.I understand why for so many people Scotland is the most beautiful country in the world.It has everything: dramatic and rugged mountain sceneries,breathtaking coastlines with so many sandy white beaches,green valleys, crystal clear rivers,charming little villages,interesting and magical old castles, and many many beautiful lochs.I cycled through ever-changing landscapes - one more impressive than the other and still equal in its uniqueness.Every day I was surrounded by beauty.Once more it was an amazing adventure with many moments of pure joy.It was certainly not the last time I've been to Scotland. But next time I have friends to visit❤
The final day of our journey had arrived. For the last time I slept under the stars without a tent. Nights which I love most 😍I was waking up with the sound of the ocean and a beautiful sunrise and some Zuri kisses 🌅🐕😅. Its been an amazing time. We cycled 2301 km in exactly 5 weeks. We crossed the border to England on our final morning and cycled along the coast until Alnmouth, where we took a train back to Leeds and then Katie, a friend of a friend brought us back to Leicester. I was really afraid on how to manage the train ride. It was the last train of the day and the whole train station was empty. Nobody to help me to get my bike into the train 🚲😬 and I read that ebikes are officially not even allowed in the train. They have 4 specially assigned places for bikes, so it's not as easy as in Germany, where you have lots of room. The train stopped in that way that the area for the bicycle was exactly where I was on the platform. 👍It was not so easy to get the bike up the stairs and the trailer then got stuck there as well. I was so stressed and wanted to do it fast until the constructor came and told me to relax😅 there is no rush. He was very friendly and eventhough my bike didn't even fit in the bike area he didn't say anything against it. He just wanted to know if I and Zuri are OK. 😃👍
We left Edinburgh after 2 nights for our last part of the journey. @hannaplant and I had a great time and we certainly didn't see us for the last time. There is something magical about being on a cycling journey...✨ You are arriving to a complete stranger but you are leaving a friend. 😃❤️
The cycling paths south of Edinburgh are beautiful and very good to cycle on. 👌 We started late and had an easy day with lots of beautiful views of the seaside 👍😃🚴♂️🐕
I had heared a lot of good thing about #Edinburgh, so I was quite excited to feel into and see the city and I have to say I really like it here 😃👌❤️ so many beautiful old buildings, the beach is close by and visible from the two city hills, which give you a nature and hiking feeling in the middle of the city. Also the cycling paths are great! The best was that Hannas flatmate works in a hotel and I got a free cookie when passing by for my day out 😍 quite exiting to explore a city again without the hassle of all the luggage and bicycle stuff.🚴🏼♀️ But I do have to admit that the climbing up the hill part was not that easy after all that cycling also not the fact that Hanna is living in the 3. Floor 😬 😅
It happens so rarely that we have a third person view of our journey, so it's worth an extra post. @hannaplant who invited us to stay with her in Edinburgh took this on our way to her apartment. She is a lovely and inspirational person and a cyclist too and to spoil a little.. we're already thinking of where we could head to together on a joint trip 😁🐕🚴🏼♀️🚴🏼♀️
Sylwia and Julian suggested that I try the chips in a town 50 km south of Aberdeen. While I was sitting there and enjoying my chips Claudia and Frank approached me, who were hiking in the area. They invited me to their home just north of Dundee. I was very happy to not to have to sleep in a tent again and cycled the remaining 70 km to their place. It was a long day but absolutely worth it! They are a lovely couple and I felt very welcomed. They cooked a really tasty meal and I even had my first Scottish Whiskey tasting 😁👌Because I cycled so much that day and I could charge my batteries at their place over night I could make it from Aberdeen to Edinburgh on just 2 instead of 3 days. The day to Edinburgh was really stormy and quite hilly and I could feel my legs from all the cycling of the last days. I was really happy when I finally crossed the bridge into the Edinburgh area. My batteries not quite made it until the city center (97 km) so I stopped in a steak house and asked for a drink and if I can charge my battery. A drink was not possible because they only took people with reservations but I could charge my battery. While I was sitting outside and waiting a waitress came out and brought Zuri and me free water. Mine was even with fresh lemon😍🍋 once more Scottish hospitality as its best ❤️🚴🏼♀️🐕
After an amazing day with Sylwia and Julian, Zuri and I left to cycle further down in the direction of Edinburgh. In Aberdeen they blocked the city centers for cars and all the big roads are now only usable for pedestrians and cyclists. An amazing feeling to have so much space on the road. 😀 They also cut down another big road on the coast side of Aberdeen into half, to give people more space to cycle and walk.🚴🏼♀️❤️ Sylwia baked some dog cookies, which Zuri totally loved. Great snacks for an all day exercising dog 🐕👌❤️ On the way down we went to Dunnottar Castle. Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell's invading army in the 17th century.
Sylwia and Julian invited us to stay with them in Aberdeen. They saw us cycling on their holiday in Skye. 😀🏴 They offered to show me some amazing places around Aberdeen, so I took a day off from cycling and we had an amazing day😍 We went seal watching, to the beach, to some cliffs, saw the Slains castle, who was the inspiration for Dracula's castle and ate some amazing fresh berryfarm icecream. Even Zuri got a little bit 🐕🏴😍 Sylwia is an amazing cook as well and we had some really good conversations too. ❤️ Many people are drawn to the Highlands when they go to Scotland and no doubt they are stunning but the East Coast has some amazing scenery to offer as well 👌😀
What a crazy day! ⭐🍀🏴🐕🚴🏼♀️👷♂️ Bob invited me to his home in Sandend. He is a former adventure tour guide and told me a lot of amazing stories about India and Scandinavia. 😀👌He cooked an amazing tasty curry for me as well! He even bought some vegan food to take away on the next day. 😍My goal was to reach Aberdeen. As soon as I left his house on the beach a bus driver stopped and asked me some questions about my journey then he gave me 40 pounds and told me I should my be some good dinner tonight. I was blown away and very surprised ❤️ on my way I saw some happy pigs! I've never seen pigs outside with so much space in Germany. When I reached Aberdeen I just followed cycle path no 1. I let me into a construction site and then the road stopped and there was a locked gate. I searched for the exit and saw that everything was closed now. Somehow they accidentally locked me in.. Not the best thing at 5.45 pm on a Friday afternoon 😬 so what to do? At one point I just called the house building company. They office was open for another 10 min. A women came out but she didn't have a key, so she needed to call someone else, who came and freed me out of it 👷♂️💪
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Thanks everybody for ordering the calendars.😘 All calendars are sent and should be with you now. If a calendar went missing please write me 😊📝
Thanks for the great replies so far and very special thanks to Christian and Jutta (@fasanengarten) for sending me this lovely picture. 🐕😃💕
I hope that the calendar will be a good companion through this upcoming year 😊
Home sweet home 🏡😊💕🐕 Zuri and I made it back to Germany! And we got surprised by a rather uncommon winter wonderland. 😍👌After being with such wonderful people the last year it will be hard to adapt being alone again but the good thing about it is, that I have more time than ever to finalize all the videos from mine and Zuris cycling adventures for Youtube 😁🎉 you can find us on YouTube with 43 videos already. Just type in my name Iris Joschko 😀🐕🚴🏼♀️ @ Hessen, Germany
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Wonderful! So glad you made it home finally. What an ordeal! Wishing you all the best for settling back in.
Wonderful 😃 So glad you’re finally home 🏡 Fabulous photos! I love the one of Zuri and the cat 🐶 😻
Have a friend in North Hessen,near Kassel and have travelled around area quite a bit..its a beautiful part of Germany..hoping to go back as soon as safe to travel..stay safe x
Wow, you made it back ! 😍
Das sieht ja aus wie Hessisch Sibirien...🤔☃️❄⛄🤣😉
Really pleased to hear you have been able to get back home.
I hope you all had a good Christmas.🎅🎄😊 Zuri and I are still stuck in the UK and will celebrate the new year here as well. Our next attempt to go back home to Germany will be on the 3. Of January. Fingers crossed 🤞
I used my additional time here and designed the calendars for 2021. Since the pictures, that you wanted were so different from each other, I decided that everyone gets exactly the pictures they choose.
I will get the calendars printed tomorrow, so if someone wants one, you have until tomorrow morning (31.12) to choose your favorite pictures under this link:
www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
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Ich hoffe, ihr hattet alle ein schönes Weihnachtsfest. 🎅🎄😊 Zuri und ich sitzen immer noch in Großbritannien fest und werden auch in das neue Jahr hier reinfeiern. Unser nächster Versuch, zurück nach Deutschland zu kommen, wird am 3. Januar sein. Drückt uns die Daumen 🤞
Ich habe meine zusätzliche Zeit hier genutzt und die Kalender für 2021 gestaltet. Da die Bilder, die ihr euch gewünscht habt, so unterschiedlich ausgefallen sind, habe ich beschlossen, dass jeder genau die Bilder bekommt, die er sich ausgesucht hat.
Ich werde die Kalender morgen drucken lassen, wer also einen haben möchte, hat bis morgen früh (31.12) Zeit, sich unter diesem Link seine Lieblingsbilder auszusuchen:
www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
Happy Christmas to you 🎅🎄❤️ I hope that you had a lovely time today whereever you celebrate today.
After not being able to go home the day before yesterday I was quite sad yesterday to have Christmas without my family. We Germans have our big Christmas day on the 24. So it was quite strange for me to have a rather "normal" day yesterday since here in Britain Christmas is celebrated on the 25. But today was a really nice day. We had a really nice walk with some friends of a friend, I could borrow a Christmas outfit, had a really nice vegan Christmas dinner, Zuri got spoiled with bones and real turkey and we even had a beautiful sunset. And I think I got the cutest Christmas wrapping ever (a present wrapped as a dog 😍). A nice Christmas over all and I am one experience richer experiencing Christmas in a different culture 😀 but fingers crossed that the border chaos in Dover will end in a couple of days and Belgium is allowed transit soon so that I can go home to see my family.. ❤️
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Merry Christmas to you all 🎄 🥳 🍺 Zuri looks wonderful 🐶 😃
Glad that you’re being looked after and Zuri looks so happy. Beautiful photos. Here’s hoping that it’s not long before you can get back home.
Good to know you found yourself in a better place than Dover and you’re both happy 😃
Wünsche euch fröhlichen Stefanietag. Der Duft von✨🎄 Weihnachten soll euer Herz erfreuen. 😄
Hoffe das klappt! Gruß Hartmut Pucken und noch eine schöne Zeit!
Merry Christmas!
I'm tiered and so is Zuri.. We're on our way back to Germany and stuck in Dover for 5 hours now. Less than 1 km to the port but the port is closed for hours now. They say it is because some truck drivers are protesting because they have no toilets and that the police just closed the harbour for everyone until they stop. Now people from different backgrounds walking on the streets and mixing with one another before going back to all these European countries and all this in tier 4, where all the inhabitans themselves have a strict lockdown. Sounds like a virus accelerant to me. I'm still having a 9 hours journey ahead of me as soon as we can move again...and I am on my way already for another 9. I didn't even know if I was able to go back yesterday because Germany banned all transports of foreign people and German residents to the country until the end of the year (even with a negative covid test!) and the French first only wanted to open the border to their own citizens... Now the French border is officially open but the port in Dover remains closed with 1000s of people in front of it like me desperate to go home.. @ Dover, UK
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Hallo ich hoffe kommst bald rüber... Wir hatten Glück waren am 16 Dezember in die 🇨🇭 gereist. Sitzen jetzt aber in einer Rückwirkenden Quarantäne 🙄 Tschüss und viel Glück
What an awful end to the year for you Iris ! I do hope you get home safe and sound, but I do hope you’ll be back 🥰 Haste ye back !
Iris, wie geht es dir? Hast du es geschafft, auf eine Fähre zu steigen? Geht es dir und Zuri gut?
I hope you and Zuri will be ok :'( What a nightmare :'(
I'll cross fingers that it might work soon!!! Hope you're safe and Zuri manages to help you over this night! Take care!
Oh no. Are you on your bike? Is there anywhere down there that you can stay if you can’t get a ferry tonight? Have you got food and water for Zuri? I guess being in Tier 4 makes it difficult. What a nightmare for you.
OMG Iris, I am so sorry you and Zuri are stuck in this chaos! Wished we could help somehow! I hope you can soon continue on your journey home. Plese keep us updated. Big hugs xxxx
Roli Haechler seid ihr noch in Zimi ? Hab da gestern beim joggen ein Brit-car stehen sehn ....
Und noch einmal die Nachricht auf deutsch 📮🎄😁🐕
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Echt so schön, ich Wünsche dir und Zuri schöne Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr!
We just saw this beautiful self made mailbox cover in Christmas style on our evening walk. Have you seen similar things in your area? 🐕🎄😍📮🌃
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Was wohl Zuri gerade denkt? 🥰
Not sure Jamie would wear a Santa suit!😂
Oh ! Zuri ! The indignity ! 🤣
Thank you for all the support this year, for all the comments and lovely private messages, that motivated me to upload more pictures + videos and that kept me going through the struggles and adventurous bits of our journey. ❤️
As a thank you I made a calendar with motivational quotes this year that will hopefully help you to follow your own dreams and passion.
Believe in yourself and the earth becomes a magical place!
✨If you want to help choose the pictures or reserve yourself a copy follow the link in my profile on Instagram or below the video.
I wish you a happy Christmas 🎄and a good start for 2021 after this difficult and challenging year!
www.survio.com/survey/d/S2G7J9Y4D7S9P0T7V
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The calendar is Beeeautiful ! ❤️
We really enjoyed meeting you both x
Lovliest couple I know ❤
Ich schreibe auf Deutsch, mein Englisch ist noch nicht so gut. Vielen Dank für die Videos und das ich teilhaben durfte. Ich wünsch dir und Zuri alles Liebe und schöne Feiertage. Gruss Angela
Zuri and I have been on the road again! What a great feeling to be back in the saddle. Way to much time passed since we came back from Scotland. We went on a day trip to #clumberpark and cycled 25 km around there. We went through this area on our way to Scotland on the Cyclepath 6. I didn't remember from the name of the place but I remembered right away when we got there. It brought the last cycling journey back to life because I remembered the struggles we went through on this day with all the barriers in the forest 😬🚴🏼♀️🐕 but luckily this was a few km north from there. Even Zuri knew the way around the area straight away 😅🐕 it's a beautiful place and we'll worth a visit! ❤️👌🚴♂️ @ Clumber Park National Forest
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You have itchy feet, we call it wanderlust, hope you and Zuri are well.😀👍
Schön euch beide wieder zu sehen! Ich hab euch schon vermisst!
Are you working in UK???
Na das ist schön von Euch und von Schottland zu hören , einen schönen ersten Advent, Euch Beiden (dreien mit Bike ) 😁🙋♂️🤗
Zuri is getting herself ready and is making space for her wintercoat. She is loosing bags of hair right now 🐕😬 what could be better than to share the hair with her dog friend George, who is always freezing. He got a nice winter coat filling now. It is already tested and approved off 😁❄️👌🐕
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Was trying to work out if Zuri is an Australian shepherd or collie been looking at pic's to see if she has a Bobtale but you can't see her tail in the pic's...lol Anyone know her breeding?
Is George jealous of all Zuri’s travels?
Das ist ja so ein spilleriger Hund und Zuri steht in ihrer Kraft!
Guck mal ist das nicht süß?