Bike & Barge Mosel River 2019

Most of us are now back home!  (Some are staying behind to continue their own travels).  We started out very early yesterday morning.  We got up at 5:00 am and had a light breakfast before leaving the boat.  We had a taxi van come to the boat at 6:30 am to pick up our luggage and take it to the train station. Terry, Roy and Eugene travelled with the luggage to help the drive unload it.  The rest of us walked the 2 km to the station, in the rain! We took the 7:00 train to Koblenz.  It was an interesting ride as we encouraged a lot of German people, dressed in their traditional clothing, likely going to work at an Octoberfest venue. I was quite amazed to see that some of them were drinking beer! We had to wait an hour at the Koblenz station before catching our high speed train to the Frankfurt airport.  There were sure some “interesting “ characters hanging around the station! It’s a good thing that we arrived in plenty of time to the airport, as it i...

The plan was to start out cycling at 9:00, cycle for 50 km and then ride the boat for the final 10 km into Cochem.  Since it was raining in the morning, we altered our plan.  We are riding down the river until 11:00 and then cycling all the way into Cochem, about 45 km. A much better plan! We hopped off the boat in Zell and took 20 minutes to check out the town before hitting the trail. It had quit ☔️ raining and the sun began to poke out.  We rode along the Mosel, enjoying the amazing scenery that never got old.  It is mind boggling how they can grow grapes so high up into the hills. It was cool to see that they had these narrow rail lines running up the hill. They have little cars on them to take the workers up and down the steep hills. We stopped in another lovely town along the river.  They are all so beautiful with the narrow, winding, cobblestone streets and old timber houses.  We split up to find a place to have lunch. We continued on about 10 km...