Across Germany | ||||||
Ah,
summer returns! Bees buzzing, birds
twittering, trees shading... this one shaded me for a while at the top of a long hill near Winden on July 4. Love this picture. Noble tree. |
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Obstacle #137 A highway underpass
near |
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A large photovoltaic generator, not an uncommon sight in Germany. | ||||
Evening, July 1 at the Georgenhof, a modern inn in the fields south of Deggendorf. I had been stiffed by the tourist office in Deggendorf - they sent me 4km down the road to a place that had nicht zimmer frei. As seems to happen, a better place showed up around the corner |
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The Regensburger Dom (dom = cathedral) I like the grey building
with |
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July 3 Morning
I did a laundry
this morning.
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On the Danube Radweg above Regensburg. |
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Evening of July 3: Kelheim after a short half-day's ride (on account of my morning in the laundromat). On a hill above the town, is this magnificent memorial, the Hall of The Liberation, commemorating the victory of the Germans over Napoleon. It was built by King Ludwig I of Bavaria, father of mad king Ludwig II. Extravagent projects ran in the family. |
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The radweg took me through a stoneyard a few km beyond Berg Prunn. Every imaginable colour and texture of building stone, ready to be cut to order out of these huge blocks. | ||||
I
took this curious footbridge over to the west bank of the Altmuhl.
On the far side I took a narrow steep road that climbed up through the forest. It was around here that I'd planned to meet up with the Roman Wall. |
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Finding
and following the wall Look closely. It's over there!
I ended up 'sort of ' following it. |
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The afternoon of the 4th I spent heading west among farming villages on a high plateau — Buch, Schambach, Thann, Neuses, Pondorf, Winden, where I took the picture of the noble tree, Denkendorf, Kipfenburg, Erkertshofen and finally Titting. | ||||
The 61km from Kelheim to Titting pushed me over 2000km. |
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June
5 |
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Ian
MacNiell, signing my book. I was surprised
on my Ian was a guest of the groom's family at the wedding. Ian's a fellow
Canadian, a professor in statistics at University of Western Ontario.
Well, it turns out statistics is one of my interests (as a sub-amateur)
so I was eager to hear about what he was doing in Europe. He had been
addressing
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Another of my favourites Ombau, an unmodernized farm village perched on a slight rise in the marshland . |
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The gladiola
harvest, near Hainstadt, July 8. It appears that gladiolas haven't been globalized yet... they're still gathered by the Bäuerin on a sunny morning. |
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I passed through Darmstadt on the morning of the 9th. Here I crossed, again, my 2008 route. That year I rode through town, going south to Stutgartt, on my first day out of Frankfurt. A unique sculpture in a park in the centre of town. It commemorates a well-loved local satirical play, the "Datterich" wriiten in the 1840's in Darmstatdt. On the west side of town my route followd a long wide boulevard through the suburbs and onto a plain that continued straight and flat all the way to the Rhine at Oppernheim, about 30km away. |
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Crossing the Rhine: 1,50 € | ||||
Bingen, where the
Rhine turns north towards towards Cologne.
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Saturday,
July 11. Heinzenbach to Daun, 62 km. Around noon I crossed the Moselle, Germany's most famous wine region. This is the town of Zell. As well as being a wine town, it's aport of call for Moselle cruisers. Upstream from here the Moselle flows out of France and Luxembourg. Downstream it joins the Rhine and flows to the sea at Rotterdam. |
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Bad
Bertrich, a spa in a narrow valley in the Moselle. |
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The sign
says "Kurhotel", a health resort. I doubt if these operations The ailing
rich come here to drink murky |
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Sunday, July 12 Daun to Butgenbach, Belgium, 63 km. | ||||