This was it. The first day of our 4 days of pain. Or so we thought. We had to get the spokes of my dad's bike, used by my uncle, tightened after 300km since he had had it replaced following our crash... This held us back until 10.15. This was not good. We nearly had 100km to do today so we had no time to lose. But off we went, and we went surprisingly quickly. We got halfway at 13.30 and stopped to eat at Bacharach, but we felt great.
This encouraged us for the rest of the day, leading to us allowing ourselves a 'chocolate stop' in St. Goar (this involves sitting on a bench in the sun on the banks of the Rhine and eating Lindor chocolate eggs and chocolate marzipan. Yum). Following on from yesterday, the landscape was becoming more impressive, as the land either side of the river was becoming steeper and higher again, as if we were going back towards the source. This section of the Rhine is home to amazing castles sitting on cliff edges overlooking their vineyards on the edge of the river. After spending the whole day along the winding river, getting variable wind as a result of the meandering, we reached Koblenz 104km later, rather than the predicted 95.5, situated where the land starts to flatten out again. I wonder what's in store for us tomorrow, the second of the 4 days of pain...
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