Happy Birthday to me! 54 today.
I drove for a while until John found
a castle and coffee shop on the shores of the Rhine river. The castle
was first built in 13th century and was enlarged and fortified as the years
passed until finally in 18th century it was given to the French without a
fight. The French then blew it up! So after all it’s sieges and
fights throughout 500 years it was just blown up. I felt a little sad
at that!
I drove for a while until John found
a castle and coffee shop on the shores of the Rhine river. The castle
was first built in 13th century and was enlarged and fortified as the years
passed until finally in 18th century it was given to the French without a
fight. The French then blew it up! So after all it’s sieges and
fights throughout 500 years it was just blown up. I felt a little sad
at that!Anyway we had a walk around then lunch in the restaurant overlooking the Rhine river. Quite a busy river lots of barges and tourist boats passing bye.
We continued
easterly with John driving. There are no roads heading east so we
have to zigzag our way in that general direction. We as usual are
staying off the highways.The front right wheel is very unbalanced at 80-85kph so trying to stay around 75kph. The going is slow as about every 2 to 7km there is another small village to navigate narrow streets of. But we are getting to see more of the country than we would on the highway. We did notice today an absence of coffee shops, maybe because it is Saturday or maybe because this is the first day we looked for one!! Or because we are in Germany.
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