Day 14 – from highs to lows. 70km

From more than 2,000m above sea level, I’m now down to just 30m (and will go negative quite soon). From steep descents, it has flattened out almost completely.

I still marvel at the size of these enormous barges plying their way up and down:

Close to my destination today, Kleve, Wunderland Kalkar theme park is constructed inside the buildings of a nuclear power station that was never opened! Construction started in 1972 on what was intended to be Germany’s first plutonium-fuelled fast breeder reactor. Completed in 1985, it cost $4billion.

Following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, it never went into production and the project was cancelled in 1991. From afar, the most noticeable of 40 attractions is a large swing ride that emerges from the top of the cooling tower.

And you can tell which country is next:


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