65km, 14-28deg, fine and sunny. What a fantastic day on the bike, great weather, great cycle paths and great scenery, oh and of course great company. A little cool at first but as the light cloud cleared and the sun came out it was perfect. We wondered why it was so quiet on the bike path until we discovered it was a public holiday. However as the day warmed the hordes came out on every conceivable mode of transport, it was lovely to see. We predominantly followe...

A nice leisurely brekkie with lots of coffee kicked off a great day. Got away about 8:30am and headed out on the route we follow tomorrow just as a practice run. Got as far as Offenbach where we stopped for a Maccas coffee. We then headed bush, called forest here, where we enjoyed some peace and quiet. Finally ended up back on the Main River where we stopped for a light lunch near a grand church. The 5km back to the motel completed a 45km loop. No luggage on boar...

We (8 of us) are now all in Frankfurt with our bikes and luggage. The missing 3 pieces were delivered to our motel at 10pm last night. This morning was spent having brekkie, chatting, putting bikes back together (the Motel gave us a conference room to do that) and sorting out local sims for our phones. We found Wendy's iPhone invaluable last year for navigation so we got both changed over this year. T-Mobile seems to have the best deal in Germany. I'm now sure th...

Cloudy and dull at the start clearing to a fine, clear, sunny day, 10-24dg, 51km av 13.4km/h (tot 559km). The low average can be partly explained by our tendency to wheel the bikes through towns and other places of interest. Had a nice tail-wind all the way. It's funny but at BS we were only 50km from where we started in Zurich. Talk about taking the scenic route! Because of the short distance we did today we took our time over brekky and were away by about 8:45a...

Fine & sunny 11-27deg, 52km, av 16.4km/h (tot 430km). The earliest we could get brekky was 8am which meant that we weren't on the road till 8:45am. But only a short ride today so no problem. After only 2km we were back into Switzerland and onto great Swiss bike paths. The scenery on the ride today was wonderful, the best thus far. Started with perfectly maintained market gardens, then progressed through orchids and farmlands of all type and sizes, even an Asi...