45km, 15-33deg, forecast - cloudy with a chance of an afternoon thunderstorm with damaging hail - actual weather, fine and sunny. Yep, weather forecasters, they're the same world over. Although we would have liked to get away early to beat the predicted afternoon storm, due to it being a Sat, brekkie wasn't available till 8am. So it was a 9am start for the ride. Just when we were getting ready to leave we ended up with 2 punctures, Mick and Gunther. All fixed in ...

77km, 13-35deg, fine and sunny. Summer has arrived in Germany, however despite the rather high temp it didn't feel too bad. Mick and Kate, who arrived in Europe a few weeks before us, said that it has been fairly cool up to now. A great brekkie in a very well run and immaculately clean hotel kicked off another nice day. After a short ride across country to avoid a bend in the river, we elected to stay on the river paths today despite the fact that it was nearly t...

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...