Thanks ... I hope to update my website a bit more tomorrow.


We are on the Rhine Route ... the Rhine Cycling Route. Well, OK, we're camping a little way off the Rhine Cycling Route, but we're not far from it (a few km), and plan to start riding the day after tomorrow. Another rest day tomorrow to try to give my right knee a chance to heal. All up today, we rode a grand total of 12.5 km.

As "luck" would have it, when we stopped at this campground to ask about accommodation, the manager asked Rowan what kind of cycling we were doing, Rowan mentioned the Rhine Cycling Route, and the manager gave us a book with detailed maps and information about it all the way to Mainz. Another cyclist dropped it off just recently, having finished with it, so it is ours now.

Between here and Mainz, a little over 400 km, there is an elevation gain of 100 metres. My kind of terrain!!

There's another approx. 400 km after Mainz to where the Rhine Cycling Route ends in Switzerland, and from what I understand, there is more climbing in that section.

We're not sure how this will go, but we plan to take it easy. Ride 2-3 days, take a break, ride a bit more, take a break. We want to see some of the area, so we may end up stopping for tours of castles or whatever there is along the way. And we're thinking about taking a train trip to Luxembourg just to have a look. It will likely take a few weeks to get from here to Switzerland.

Then, if we can get all the way to Switzerland, Italy isn't far away.