Today was a beautiful day and you never know when it will be the last one of the season, so I decided a long bike ride would be just the thing. I had heard Potsdam was nice so I headed vaguely south and west till I hit a road called the Potsdamerstrasse, which I was pretty confident would take me there. I only made it as far as the suburb (?) Am Stern, which has a nice little park around the Jagdschloss-Stern, a royal hunting lodge built for Friedrich Wilhelm I. (Apparently today they were having a festival of some kind complete with a German Dixieland jazz group (!?), but I didn't get there till after it was over. They'll have a more "authentic" Herbstfest with hunting horns and what-not later in the month.)
Anyway, two and a half hours straight pushing that sturdy three-speed and I am pretty bushed! But with a nice little detour through a park along the Teltowkanal on the way out, it was a very pleasant ride.
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