Thursday. Berlin-Prenzlauerberg. Left after ten. Focus. Berliner Mauerweg. Picked it up at Mauerpark intending to go east and north first, but didn't see an obvious way, and so started following the signs toward downtown. The weather was good, mild, not warm, a breeze. Not a lot of time to look carefully at anything. There was the usual traffic--in the city pretty busy--and spotting the signs pointing out the route required focus and timing. Meanwhile, the road surface varied greatly, and much of it was tricky, for example the not-infrequent cobbled streets. It's urban riding and sign spotting, and so the speed is low and haste is you enemy. Winding my way through the center (my first time there since 1997) brought recognition and surprise in about equal measure. Then neighborhoods and parks further out to the southeast, and eventually the Teltow Canal near Aldershof. That's where I decided to head back, which meant another hour or so clear across the city. One can spend a lifetime getting to know a place like this.
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