Biking along the Mosel River

Trip Start May 12, 2012

Trip End Jun 03, 2012

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Flag of Germany Beilstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Monday, May 14, 2012

Made breakfast by 9:30 a.m. Dining room was formerly a Knight's hall – all sorts of antiques on the wall, heavy dark wooden chairs, furniture – great eye candy while munching on pleasant foods for breckers. Our delightful young host indicated where we could rent bikes (a bargain at 7 Euro’s a day) so off we headed for Cochem – a flat 10 km right alongside the river on beautiful paths (for a good 20 km ride return) Victoria (name of my bike) served me well with a few photo stops and relief for the butt – Victoria’s seat left a little bit to be desired – hard!! But Rich’s was like ours at home so he was fine. First Cappuccino’s at Cochem – not hungry for lunch yet. Banks on both sides of the Mosel lined with vines so high and steep that a helicopter had to be used to spray them (insecticides or ??) Back we headed along the other side of the river, ending with a wee ferry ride back to our side and right in front of our hotel!

View from our hotel restaurant

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Found a small restaurant/outside a wine cellar (real cellars these are) just up a street and over – all tiny streets, not really for vehicles they are so narrow and cobble stoned. Another super salad for me and Rich had their homemade potato salad with 2 European sausages. Crowd of older German men on a bike trip sat next to us – obviously having lots of fun chattering away – makes one wish one was multilingual – the stories would be even better!!

Afternoon snoozes and showers prepped us for dinner #2 – tough decision – eat at our hotel sitting overlooking the river or go to the "cellar" restaurant behind us which looks really cool. Only 180 residents live in Beilstein - perfect size for a quaint delightful German town – we will return!!

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Breakfast in the Knight's hall	Biker chick on bridge crossing Mosel river	Gorgeous sites on Mosel	Easy riding paths
Crossing bridge on bike	Rich finds a coal barge!	Pretty Beilstein street	Back of hotel on square
Taking bikes across on wee ferry	Beautiful quaint little Beilstein from our ferry	Lunch in Beilstein	Lunch spot after 20 km ride
Entrance to hotel	Tiny square in Beilstein	Last dinner in Beilstein -gorgeous evening