A few days ago we were heading east to Karlovy Vary In Czech republic, then i spotted Colditz on the map and we took a sharp left to Altenburg then Colditz. We did an extended 2.5 hour guided tour of Colditz - amazing. Very surreal sitting in the prisoners courtyard eating our packed lunch knowing that over 500 POW's were stuck in here with guards, barbed wire, search lights galore. The POW's ate quite well for the first few years thanks to red cross parcels. For...

Left Ziegenbruck battling a raging headwind whilst trying to crawl uphill. Fortunately we changed direction and instead we had a strong side wind blowing us all over the road! Then finally we had a welcome tailwind which helped up the hils. Without the camping gear we are actually using the big chainring several times a day rather than it just being an ornament. Another bus shelter for lunch, shelter being the key word. We booked a self catering apartment for one...

Monday 11th Sep - We only took one photo during today's ride! It started with a 400 metre killer climb, it was wet and windy. Then on the descents we froze our asses off. Donna was wrapped up like it was winter. The sole photo was a dithering Donna having lunch in a bus shelter. Then the sun came out and we finished in Suhl, Very pretty centre, our digs looked frightening on the outside, if we hadn't already booked it we wouldn't have considered it. Actually it w...

So we decided to book accomodation ahead. Donna was very dubious of my choice of Hostel Am bahnhoff at Suhl - furnished with an industrial theme! So within 1Km of setting off we were going up, and up again, this was followed by another big climb, fortunately the day got easier until we left Meiningen in the afternoon where we had a brick wall climb. We simply had to stop and stop and stop for rests. Then we finally reached our shipping container - actually the wa...

So we decided to send Tatty the trailer & the camping gear home, We hit the road again on Saturday 9th September in high spirits with our lighter load despite the fact that we had to climb over the Vogelsberg mountains and it was pi**ing down with rain. Our first food stop was on some damp church steps (cake), our lunch stop was a quiet affair in a sleepy village on a bench with a bit of sunshine and we had tinned ham instead of cheese (yum), our last food st...