Dear Philip,

Welcome in our forum!

The first of April is a date in germany, where people, friends, colleagues, the newspaper, the television etc. arranged a lot of April Fool jokes.

But I will give you an answer to your first question.

You have a lot of options for a bicycle tour in germany. When you will start in Berlin, you can go to the North or to the South of germany. Both landscapes are very nice.

If you want to go to the south, you can cycle from Berlin to Dresden along the Elbe river. There are a lot of nice old towns along the Elbe river, like Magdeburg, Wittenberg (where Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses on the castle church ), Dessau and Dresden.
There are nearly 400 kilometers from Berlin to Dresden. This route is very flat. A lot of cyclist use the cyclist route along the Elbe river in summer, and it will be very full of cyclists on the Elbe river route in June/July and August. You can take a look on the website of the Elberadweg . This website is also in English!

To cycle through the German states Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will be very nice, too. The nature in Brandenburg is very nice. Thera are a lot of lakes and woods in Brandenburg. I think, a good option is, to cycle from Berlin to Usedom along the German-Poland boundary, called the Oder-Neiße cyclist route.
But i don´t know more details about this route, I never cycle on this route. But look at this
website .
On this website you get more information.

So, I hope I could give you some information for your cyclist trip in Germany!

If you have some questions, don´t hesitate to ask me or other members!

Have a nice evening!

Best regards
Thomas