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Modern Central Germany is now a place where aliens can pedal across borders with ease (with a few huffs and puffs), and we included on our ride a visit to a demarcation that was once one of the most dangerous in the World.

We rode out from the Gö Velodrome along the Leine Valley mixing asphalt, gravel, cycle paths and farmers roads. Thankfully the Leine ´Mistral´ was not blowing its usual cold breath with any real venom and the sun shone.

Our ride saw us enter the State of Hesse for a short period, here we did not have to pay tribute or tax unlike our predecessors might have done. Returning to Lower Saxony we onto Bisenhausen to the old East German Border where much of the infrastructure of the militarised ´Antifascist Barrier´ has been removed. Signs help set the scene of the period from 1945 to 1989 as does the surviving British Army customs shed and hidden in the undergrowth is an abandoned East German observation bunker.

At Bisenhausen we dipped our toes into the German State of Thuringia once part of East Germany.

Bisenhausen (the cafe is open!!!) is one of many farm estates in the area and it is now owned by Göttingen University, legend tells us that when the Red Army occupied it in 1945, they were bribed to leave and halt their ambitions at Kirchgandern a kilometre away.

On route home we passed Friedland, where the occupying British built a transit camp and over two million refugees passed through it after World War Two and it remains in use to this day.

P.S we were chaperoned by one and a half Germans.

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