GERMAN RIVERS:Worms to Bingen

Last night's wine festival in Bad Durkheim was more fun than most of us envisioned and was worth the 34 km van ride.  The closest analogy I can give is the Texas State Fair (twice as large as the next largest state fair).  There are 100,000 Germans who come each of three weekends for this annual event. 

This photo is on it's side but people riding these devices can't tell which way is up anyway.

This festival was mostly about food and drink - and lots of both. The smallest serving of wine was 1/4 liter, so we shared!

This morning we woke to rain as expected.  The rain is supposed to stop by 9:00 but begin in the destination town of Bingen at 3:00. Sometimes you can't win. And when I learned there were more unpaved trails today I was most unhappy.  Then someone mentioned the train.  So the Griswold's and Brenda and I took the train. We discovered that Bingen wasn't much of a town so took the ferry across the Rhine to  Rudesheim for lunch.

Rudesheim

It apparently didn't rain much if at all today so maybe we should have been on the bike. But the reports we got on the road surface indicate we made a good decision.  And, FINALLY, we see a castle - right our of our bedroom window!