70kms
Total ride distance 549.3
Ride details
We then walked down the road to see what was down the hill ...
Riding through another Historic town ...
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| Breakfast - fresh bread a selection of cheeses, meats and jams. |
Wayne
surprised me with a trip on a little train to get to a very tall
mountain, he first told me we were riding up - knowing my aversion to riding any positive incline I was pleasantly surprised we did not ride up the mountain.....
And the view at the top was spectacular!!
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| Where were heading (south) |
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| Where we have been (north) |
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| Schloss Drackenburg |
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| One of the fist ways to help tourists get to the top of the hill. |
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| A little cafe on the way down. |
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| The railway bridge. |
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| Cute house. |
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| Wild Holly |
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| Selfy trying to capture the view |
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| The gradient of the hill |
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| One of the first trains to take people up to the lookout |
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| A tower Wayne found on his afternoon cycle. |
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| Where we stayed in Konigswinter. |
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| Panorama of the view from the lookout |
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| A very big semi trailer making his way through the very narrow streets of Konigswinter. |
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| Street scene Konigswinter. |
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| On the road again, leaving Konigswinter. |
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| Riding through Bad Honnef |
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| We cam across these massive
bridge posts with no bridge, we looked it up when we got wifi &
found out it was the Luddendorf Bridge, which had been a casualty of
WW2in the battle of Remagen, Operation Blunder |
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| Wayne in 7th heaven on his bike on top of a train siding at Ockenfels ...just keeping in with the train theme for the day. |
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| And me with a castle in the background ...and trains ... |
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| A healthier mid morning snack... with chocolate of course as we cross the Rhine on the Ferry |
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A cute little bridge we crossed...
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Another phenomenal castle ... Schloss Arenfels.
We had lunch at Bad Breisig, and we counted 18 castles in the valley across the Rhine. This being one of them.
Arenfels Castle, the impressive landmark of Bad Hönningen, is set high above the town in the vineyards, visible even from afar.
It was built as a fortress in 1258-59 by Gerlach von Isenburg. In the 17th century it was turned into a Renaissance Palace, and in 1849 it was renovated in Neo-Gothic style by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, the architect of Cologne Cathedral. In that same year it was acquired by the Count of Westerholt-Gysenberg. Special features are a suspended column in the knights’ hall, a beautiful wrought – iron staircase and a magnificent marble fountain in the inner court. A peculiarity of the castle is the fact that it has 12 towers, 52 doors and 365 windows, hence the name "Jahresschloss” (year castle). |
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| This was also a very old castle built over the centuries - Burg Namedy - very beautiful too - with a moat. Built over many centuries. |
This was in a fantastic historic village called Andernach. This village is so old, it could take days to explore everything it has to offer.
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| A really old toll house for ships passing, but is now a war memorial. So many small German towns lost so many young men too. Still in Andernach. |
Part of the old city wall of this historic village.
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| Part of the original town wall of Andernach |
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| Our bikes having a rest against a really old wall... |
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| Some of the pretty scenery we passed through on the way to Koblenz |
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| We didn't stay here, but we liked the sculpture. We didn't find another place to stay for 25kms! |
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| A random Biergarten with big screen showing soccer games - it was random because it in the middle of nowhere |
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| Koblenz as we were swept across the bridge in the traffic. Looks like an interesting town, we were tired & needed rest at this point, so we just rode through it. |
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| Part of the Stolzenfels Castle near where we stayed the night. |
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| The view across the river from where we stayed. |
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| Where we stayed. The train line went right behind it, but we didn't hear it as we were too tired! |
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