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Wed May 11, 2022 10:28 pm (Last edited: Wed May 11, 2022 10:36 pm)
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A brief account of my first trip overseas since 2019, starting with an overnight in Sussex, UK before taking a ferry from Newhaven to Dieppe, France. After a function in Dieppe over the last weekend in April, 5 of us ventured for an overnight in Reims, 3 nights in Buhlertal in the German Black Forest and 2 nights in Dinant, Belgium. We passed through Luxembourg on the way to Dinant, making up the 5th country. Spam goes here |
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On Sun 1st May we said goodbye to most of the group and 3 of us rode to Reims to meet another couple unconnected with the weekend group. Pleasant ride across rolling countryside on N & D roads to a chain hotel in the city centre. A few beers and a meal in a brasserie. No pictures as I have stopped in Reims many times so it was just a convenient place to meet before onward travel.
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We stayed in the lovely http://hotel-adler-buehlertal.de/ - a family run place with large, clean rooms, covered parking and very welcoming hosts. They were incredibly pleased to have us stay for 3 nights. We ate here for 2 nights and as the chef has a night off on Wednesdays, ate in one of the other restaurants. The hotel food was good, traditional fayre and plentiful. I drank mostly Weissbier but the local wine was good. Amusingly, when they served us some complimentary white fizz, it was cheap Italian spumante!
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Scrolling down, I was relieved that the object in the second photo turned out to be an ice cream cone.
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On our first ride in the Black Forest, we didn't go far, around 65 miles. Took ages, mind, at 50kph for half of it!
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We all enjoyed our 3 nights in the Black Forest and would happily return to the hotel. The proximity to the Rhine makes it a great base to tour Alsace, the Vosges and the northern Black Forest.
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Our 2nd day in Dinant was a mixture of being an ambulant tourist in the morning to see the Citadel then go for a solo ride along the Meuse back into the French Ardennes via Givet.
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I don't know if I want to return to Europe any time soon, but I have to admit that I loved the architecture I saw in Germany, Switzerland, Brussels, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
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Did someone say Sherman?
Carpe Diem!
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Zitat von SE RS im Beitrag #13 not exclusively. I got through shit loads of Greek red wine in the Greek place But, beyond the UK, the best beer comes from Belgium[1] or Germany, so when in Rome... [1] even the French have learnt this as Leffe is available everywhere
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