GERMAN RIVERS: Strasbourg to Schweigen-Rechtenbach

This is a tandem ("bicycle built for two) tour; Ron and Michelle from Ottawa, noticed a store named "TANDEM" near our hotel so we had a group picture taken in front of the store before we left town today.

There are 8 tandems on the tour; four (Claus and Sandra and Brenda and I) are riding road bikes instead of tandems. Tandem riders call "normal" bikes "singles" because they carry a single rider.  But this term is not used by the general cycling community.

We left as a group winding our way on rough cobbled streets of Strasbourg but soon were on a smooth bike bath along a canal.  We were on bike baths most of the way, heading north along the west side on the Rhine.  About 10:00 we started looking for a coffee shop but didn't find one all day. Starbucks, you're really missing an opportunity along the Rhine in France.

We looked for lunch in Seltz and could only find a snack bar open. But they served pretty good lunches.  While there it started to drizzle, something not forecast. We split here, some going the originally planned route and the rest of us taking a short cut. It wasn't the best of rides - cold, wet and faster than I wanted. I huffed and puffed to keep up with the group.  The hotel here is nice; our luggage was in our room when we arrived and we can participate in a free wine tasting next door.  There wasn't much to photograph today and I couldn't ask the group to stop for my photographs.