103km, 20-29deg, fine and cooler. Got underway at 7:30am this morning to try and avoid the worst of the heat. Although the temp, 20-29deg, didn't turn out to be as hot as forecast a couple of days ago, 38deg. 29 is so much more pleasant then 39-40deg. Immediately crossed the Rhein River to be on the left bank for the Rhein Cycle Route. Wendy and Greg did this route from Switzerland (where the Rhein starts) last year, but then left it not far from Mannheim to ente...

20km, 25-38deg, fine and hotter. Our first task for the day was to change hotels as it was just too hot sleeping without aircon, the thing wasn't even blowing air, hot or cold. We have an 80+km ride on Monday in heat forecast to be 37deg so we want to be refreshed before we start. The hotel we were in gave us a refund of the cost of the second night without question as they knew they were conning people by not saying anything about the busted aircon before they c...