Mainz ...101 klms

Really enjoyable ride today, temperature dropped to mid twenties to low thirties, clear skies & a pleasant breeze.
Nearly all of the track was smooth flat hot mix bitumen, with only a couple of short stretches of rough. It made the ride seem very easy, even though 101 klms  was the longest distance for a single day so far.
We are now only 1 short, 40 klm ride from Frankfurt & the end of our journey. I hope we have another lovely day like today to finish with.

 

Another ABC scoped out in Worms at morning tea, which we had at the bakery, of course, the interesting thing about this one was the archaeological dig in front.

 

This stuff was under the ground & is being catalogued, the church is old, so this must be REALLY old probably over 2000 years.

 

A double length barge carrying many containers. As there are no B doubles on the road here we reckon this one alone keeps at least 150 semis off the road.

 

An English sea mine in a road side park.

 

A mine sweeper beside the mine & a commemorative plaque.

 

Selfie while riding.

 

A 5.8 litre AMG Mercedes, it was black but he repainted it matt gold.

It was 135,000 Euros new & 22,000 second hand, they must be giving away the standard ones second hand. A good country to buy a used Mercedes.

He tells us it can cruise at 360 klm/hr on the autobahn, but uses a lot of petrol.

 

On a ferry crossing the Rhine, we did pay the ferry man before we got to the other side.

 

A harvested wheat field with the stubble baled up.

If you remember when we arrived all the wheat fields were still green, they are now mostly ripe & ready for harvest.

 

A shady stop for lunch in the middle of the wheat fields.

 

A harvester, harvesting a field of canola.

 

Some kind of radar installation, not sure for what, but probably a left over from the cold war.

 

Most of the trip on excellent hot mix bike tracks.