Monday, May 25, 2009
















I´ve got a lot more pictures, but the internet here is really slow so I´ll upload them later. From Mainz, we biked to Rudesheim am Rhein. The trip was through some really hilly areas with a lot of wineries along the way. There was also a holiday festival thing going on, so as we were biking in the morning before noon we saw old drunk german men with beer spilled all down their front shirts walking around. It´s really funny how they do holidays here. There was a bank holiday on Thursday so everything was closed and everyone got drunk. But, on Friday, everything was still closed because everyone was hung over or recovering from the holiday. Anyways, we made it into Rudesheim where we had some excellent food and excellent beer. The next day, we biked to Hocheim which is just south of Koblenz. We stealth camped in a park that night so we wouldn´t have to pay for a campground. It was pretty easy, but having to go get water was an issue. We didn´t explore Koblenz since we are on a tight schedule to get to Amsterdam. The next day we biked about 100km to Köln, which is where we are now. We took a day off and went to an art museum and explored the Dom (cathedral). It was a very beautiful cathedral, and I´ll upload pictures of it later. Today, we´re heading to Dusseldorf. Hopefully I can find a good internet connection and upload more photos.

2 comments:

  1. The photos are really nice. I particularly like the shot of the wine glass with the street behind.

    The stone streets are really beautiful, I think. It really conveys the age of the place, and it looks entirely unlike here.

    It looks so gray and damp. Have you been rained on much while riding?

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  2. Not really. It rains in short bursts, so out of nowhere a storm comes in and rains for like 20 minutes then goes away. I´m in Dusseldorf right now and it is really windy and cold.

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