When the weath­er fore­cast in­volves sun and tem­per­a­tures that would make cy­cling dur­ing the day not very at­trac­tive, I start at 5:30 by speed­ing down the al­most emp­ty El­bchaussee, full speed through the Louis C. Ja­cobcurve, try­ing not to hit some ear­ly shift Air­bus em­ploy­ees at Teufels­brücke, through sleepy Oevel­gönne, along the al­ready busy Fis­chmarkt, through Baustelle HafenCi­ty, over the Elb­brück­en, along in­dus­tri­al Gras­brook, through the Alte Elb­tun­nel, up the Al­ton­aer Balkon and then back to Blanke­nese. Break­fast at 8:00.

I don't know why it takes the Europa 15 days to go from Ham­burg to Kiel.