Pretty towns, hot weather and two hotel nights

 For the last two days we have passed through quite a few beautiful and historic towns - to the point where they're starting to blend together now in our heads!

Worth (where we camped on Monday night), Miltenberg, Wertheim, Tauberbishofheim and Bad Mengentheim were all picturesque and historic towns. Once we left Wertheim, we had left the Main River and started following the Tauber River, along what is know as the Taubertal Radweg. This route is promoted as being one of the loveliest routes in Germany. It certainly has been a nice mix of woodland, farm land and cute villages, with views of vineyards on nearby steeply sloped hillsides.

Riding through Miltenberg, a stunning town on the River Main

Lunch in Miltenberg. The bakeries have such wonderful stuff!

A river boat making its way through a lock on the Main River

The town of Wertheim in the evening.
Our hotel was just around the corner from here

Saw this huge field of sunflowers today along the Tauber River

Quiet pathways today along the Tauber

The lazy Tauber River

That's my bike

Lunch today in Tauberbischofheim looking onto the Marktplatz

Dinner tonight at our little country hotel. Pork, mushroom sauce and spatial. We both loved it and had such a huge appetite that there wasn't  a bit left.

Temperatures have been around 30C the last two days so riding was pretty tiring to say the least. So we opted to skip tent set-up and spoiled ourselves with hotels. The joy of being able to jump into a shower the minute you arrive sweaty and fatigued is immeasurable!

We covered 125 km in the last two days, which should keep us on target for meeting up with Nancy on Monday.

The two of us feeling very pleased with ourselves at 6pm this evening
to have reached this little country hotel after a hot day on the bikes 



Comments

  1. AnonymousAugust 29, 2024 at 7:53 AM

    I don't even know how many km you plan to drive. Around 2500 again? Jirka Vor

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    1. AnonymousAugust 29, 2024 at 3:26 PM

      Not as far this time, maybe 1500 km

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  2. Mike BAugust 29, 2024 at 12:01 PM

    All of the food photos look delicious!

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    1. DaphneAugust 29, 2024 at 3:43 PM

      👍will try to keep the food pictures coming!

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 9, 2024 at 9:03 AM

    Great blog Daphne! I love Germany! Such a beautiful country! Julie Martineau

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