Today is a rest day in Bacharac. Sat watching the boats passing by on the Rhine.
Found some shade and also watching g the trains om the opposite bank as they take their goods and passengers from here to there.
Some boats are struggling with the current as they crawl up the river, others glid effortlessly down towards the ocean.
Where do planes come in. Well only. Our way in to have a look around Bacharac we heard the screen of a fighter jet. We turned around to see it disappearing at low level up the Rhine. If only we had left camp 15 mins later we would have had a grandstand view of it.
A first for us today, we’re up and off by 8.30. We are leaving g a nice basic campground with swimming lake early as we have a hotel booked for tonight and a few kms to ride. The plan is to get there early so Jo can do some editing.
The ride is pleasant and flat, making for good progress. That is until we get to have a choice on routes.
We decide to bypass Mannheim and head to Worms. The EV15 has routes both ways.
On a particularly nice at straight besides the railway things start to go wrong.
At this stage the wind is behind us, a warning sign in itself, as we’ve always had a headwind.
After going g u der a road bridge we are both distracted by a large factory, both missing the turn off.
This little error cost us at least 6 kms extra riding. Not as bad as I first thought, thinking we had gone at least 10 kms off route.
Back on the trail it was again flat riding along side the dykes protecting the farms from the Rhine.
Near to our destination we turned to the Garmin for assistance and at the 6km to go mark it directed us to town on a signposted but not ev15 road. That was mistake 2 for the day. This way turned into a dirt track and added at keast another 2km to the route.
Doing back we finally made our way to our pre-booked Hotel, hot, tired and exhausted right in the middle of dinner service. Not the best time to check in.
But all ended well and we ended up cycling 101kms for the day
Oh on the way we passed this cool transport museum at Spyers but didn’t have time to look around.
