Day 5: Hamburg
No stats today because it is my first rest day. The last four days have been long and I really felt I needed some time not sitting on the bike. My hotel has a laundrette! One of the sad things about long distance cycling is that you get irrationally excited about laundrettes and heated towel rails. A laundrette and a rest day means that you're not washing filthy cycle kit when you get into your room in the evening and the heated towel rail means you're not pulling on damp and semi-clean cycle kit in the morning. Finding the laundrette involved some basement detective work but finally, nestled in a dark corner I spied a washing machine and a tumble drier…joy! I put everything except what I was wearing — I had future plans for the clothes I was wearing — and headed out into the wet streets of Hamburg at 7:30am looking for something to do while my cycle gear washed and tumbled for a couple of hours.