Follow The Horizon

Today we had the first real rain since leaving Paris. We have been so spoiled! We were just thinking about stopping for lunch in Gemert when we started to feel a few drops. What is that strange sensation, cold little pin pricks on my skin. There was a row of restaurants with big umbrellas, so… Continue reading

The ride to Nijmegen was mostly on the top of dikes on roads shared with vehicles. Really only one lane wide, but the drivers are mostly courteous. We stopped for lunch at a cafe on the. Banks of the Waal, which is the main branch of the Rhine as it flows across the Netherlands. After… Continue reading

Chris and Sarah went back to their new home in Scotland, leaving us to carry on alone once again. It has been  great to spend time with them, and we’ve had tons of fun. My beer consumption will drop considerably now Chris is no longer riding with us. It was a short ride into town… Continue reading

We hit the 1,500 kilometer mark today. We seem to be doing more distance than planned, but it’s going okay. Our route took us through a lot of heavy industry on our way to Koln. As we neared the city, traffic on the trail became heavier. Not my favorite kind of riding, dodging pedestrians and… Continue reading

Another easy downhill ride. Again, we’re staying at the same campground that we stayed at the last time we were in Bonn. It changed hands in 2020, and is now much busier, and expensive. The bar in the middle of the campground is nice, but expensive. Continue reading

We had a great gradual downhill and mostly downwind ride to Koblenz. Riding group ride style the four of us were able to effortlessly maintain speeds in the mid to upper 20 kph range. It was good fun. We’re staying in the same campground as we did last time we came through, in fact they… Continue reading

Easy downwind ride today. We made good time until we stopped for gelato in Oberwesel. When we started out again for the short distance to our campsite we had a bit of a headwind. Komoot likes to route along backroads, not taking into consideration how much hill it involves. It routed us up over a… Continue reading

We left the friendly folks at Campinggemeinschaft Rheinblick to zigzag our way to the dikes and on to Mainz. Mostly tailwinds for us in this section, and we completed most of the ride before the heat really turned on. It turns out that this section of dike riding is extremely popular. Bus loads of tourists… Continue reading

We had planned to slowly ride through Heidelberg and then through Ladenburg before heading to Camping Mannheim Beach. A short ride of about 25km. Unfortunately the email that I had sent to the campground last night was responded to with a negative for availability. We had done an early morning walk around Old Town, so… Continue reading

We were a little late getting away, but we wanted a chill day after yesterday so that’s okay. We stopped for a coffee and a treat before we left Kehl. Very nice. The town of Lichtenau was a perfect lunch and gelato stop. So far so good. Then the heat started to turn on, and… Continue reading