Our first stop was made in Bad Hersfeld. When you see Bad in a German town name, it mostly means there is a Kurort or wellness center. But no time for us to visit it. Just stopping for the night and trying the local food and beers.

The next morning it was pretty cold, at around 15 degrees, we were already wondering how we would get through Tajikistan well. There are mountain passes over 4000m there. It will be in summer. We wore our thermal sports underware, a thin fleece, and bmw rally 3 suite with the windproof layer. The only option I could imagine was getting real thick thermal underware. I had this still from the army, but I left it home because it was quite heavy and voluminous. Let’s see if I made a mistake here.

We noticed another problem while we were riding through Germany, the connection between the gpsmap 62st and the bike’s battery got lost now and then. Inspecting the cable I saw some rust. I decided to stop over at Touratech OST in Dresden to get a new cable. Unfortunately they didn’t have it, nor was it available on our way in Poland. They would ship it to Donetsk. Let’s see if we get the cable. I did a quick fix but putting some toile isolant around the cable and cleaning it a bit. It seemed to work a lot better now. When it was raining hard I took out the cable and rode on the gps battery.

In the meantime we reached the Polish border, we are still in the Schengen zone, so no problem to cross this border. In the evening we arrived in Wroclaw and checked in at an aparment in the center. We went for some local food on the rynek and to bed afterwards.