July 23rd to July 29th

So we made it to Germany to the Moselle valley, what a magnificent area, the river is beautiful and the surrounding valley is just so green.

A world away from London and its big city problems, interestingly though Germany’s land mass as compare to Australia is strikingly small

Australia = 7,682,300 sqkm
Germany = 348,672 sqkm

Meaning that Germany is 1/22nd the size of Australia and has 4 times the population, yet it is clean and tidy, well organised and the infrastructure is excellent. So how I managed to find the only 2 Gästehaus’s in the whole of Germany without WI-FI I will never know

23 Jul:

After a magnificent day walking up to Burg Eltz castle and then some lovely dinner we went for an evening stroll, it seems to be mainly a Catholic area and there are crucifixes around, mostly attributed to St Castor

24 Jul:


Cochem for pastries – YUM!


25 jul:

This is our pre-dinner drinking at a winery we found for dinner


26 Jul:

Durbuy, Belgium, a great spot for food and drink and odd assortment of art and stuff plus biblical rain


27 Jul:

Brugge on the canal is always lovely


28 Jul:

Calais small boat harbour, someone took the plug!


29 Jul:

How the dinosaurs really died out

Neatest most correct entry:

Tries-Kardon on the Moselle:

10 year old boy humour


No please or thank you just do it


Bernkastel on the Moselle


Bitburger is on everything in this area, they most probably only market to a quarter of Germany
This part of the river runs East-West hence there are sundials everywhere


German OH&S


This is my river cruiser I hired for a day


Durbuy, Belgium:


Did I mention Biblical rain?

Calais and the Ferry:

Another Notre Dame

 Cafe parking French style

Hotel Deville

Fellow riders on the Ferry – Mattia from Italy on a Africa Twin


Mikio, has just ridden from Hiroshima Japan, through Russia, Scandinavia, down to Italy back up to Calais and into England


Odd:

You see these machines everywhere, they are in the most unlikely places as well, this one was on the side of a health food shop







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