OMG, it feels good to be back in the saddle again! We are back in Germany again visiting our oh so generous friends...we always have such a good time in Germany. It is great to be back in the Western culture although we enjoyed Asia immensely with its warm people, their food and needless to say its beautiful beaches we missed our bike and the freedom it gives us.
Touching down in Germany, Franz and Sabine picked us up at the Frankfurt airport and we stayed with them for a few days while we recouped from a little jet lag, touring the area a bit visiting a local winery, restaurants and exploring parts of Weisbaden we had not seen before. This is Europe and football (known as soccer to us North Americans) is all the rage, a few evenings were spent cheering on the local German teams in the European semi finals. Looks like it may be a big year for the Germans!
From Weisbaden it was on the train and up to Heinz and Martina''s place in Asendorf where we had left our motorbike. Asendorf this time of the year is very nice with the farm field green or being planted and the leaves just budding on trees in the forests. Ken and I went for walks and peddle bike rides everyday of our stay, it is so nice to be able to get a little exercise without breaking into a sweat just thinking about it, like in Asia. While in Asendorf we took a little road trip in the care to visit Hamburg (on the Autobaun...200+ kph!!!). Hamburg is a very beautiful city with canals and old warehouses lining the streets of the old quarter, and believe it or not a red light district similar (but smaller) than Amsterdam's. Of coarse, we took the motorbikes out for a couple of rides on the warmer days, I love touring the small roads and in the farming communities there are plenty of those.
Ten days back in Germany and the bike is packed and ready to go...and so are we. We have made arrangements for the ferries on this trip (from France to the UK, the UK to Denmark and from Denmark to Iceland and back) and we will camping again this trip but we will also be trying something new to us "couchsurfing". We thought this might be a good way to meet the locals in places we will be traveling (people open their homes with a bed or couch to travelers for a night or two) . We will keep you posted on how that works out. Meanwhile, 9 am, about 10 degrees under cloudy skies and we are off!
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| A trip to the 5XL resturant where everything is super sized... |
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| including our schnitzel, we shared one! |
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| A beautiful park in Weisbaden with Ken, Franz and Sabine sitting in front of a building that once was used a bath house. |
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| Martina, Hienz Me and Ken in Hamburg, what a fun day. |
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| A nice sunny day, a bike ride and a little cake and coffee! |
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