Sinshiem... 42 klms

Very hot in the high thirties, fortunately the ride was quite short & the hills again quite character building, Yvonne having some difficulty in places, so I once again have 3 panniers, this time for the remainder of the journey. A tough morning with 2 flats in my rear tyre within the first 5 kilometres. Allison fortunately finally found a fine sliver of green glass in the tyre which you could not feel inside the tyre when checking, but must have poked through when my weight went on. I would never have found it with my crappy vision, but no more problems since then. We went to the Sinsheim museum on the way through. It is probably the best kept & most comprehensive museum I have ever seen. Containing planes, trains, cars, tanks, motorbikes & a thousand other things, with lots of special unique items. Everything was spotlessly clean. Accommodation tonight is quite special as we have our 4 rooms gathered around a common hallway, the units have all cooking amenities & other home comforts, so we all went to the Rewe supermarket & everyone cooked up their own delicious dinner, & sat around talking & drinking the cheap European booze.
There was a crap load of pictures I wanted to put up as there were hundreds of things I could have put in, but it would have taken all night to upload.
If you really want to suffer, come & see me when we get home & I can show you another 200 pics of absolutely unique stuff.

 

Confusion at the forest crossroads.

 

View emerging from the forest.

 

 The Sinsheim museum car park & yes that is a real concord in the top right hand corner on the roof & yes we did climb up into it.

 

A Canadair water bomber & we accessed  it from the stairs at the back, from the roof.

 

One of hundreds of very nice & clean cars.

 

Back to the future in a Delorean.

 

Something to use when shooting rabbits.

 

Lots of stuff.

 

A lovely Heinkel bomber.

 

There was well over a hundred tanks.

 

A Messerschmidt tri wheeler with pusher propellor, for use on roads & snow.

 

If you don't like pushing a big chain ring you will hate this racing bike from 1908

 

A high shot of more 'stuff'.

 

A whole road of tanks, planes, cannons, ballistic missiles & assorted other 'stuff'.

 

The Canadair, Concord & Russian Tupolev 144, you better believe we climbed up & into all of them.

 

Another view of more 'stuff'.

 

Here are another bunch of roof mounted planes. Notice the stainless steel tube coming out of one planes & disappearing through the roof of the museum, it eventually ends up on the ground floor of the museum. It is a slide & Greg & I tried it out. It was a VERY fast trip.

 

Concord, we entered via the spiral steps at the rear.

 

Loking up the guts of Concord.

 

Concord cockpit.

 

Inside the Russian TU-144 (concord equivalent). It is a much roomier & pleasant plane, but the cockpit is much more basic.

 

An interesting view over the wing of the TU-144.

 

A great angle of the underside of Concord.

 

Rear view of TU-144 & Concord.

 

A different aircraft. As the planes are mounted at interestng angles it is very strange walking in them. Yvonne is standing straight up & down.

 

This rocket car holds the world land speed record of well over 1000 km/hr.

 

Yvonne with a really big lawn mower engine ( I think ). The white thing on the right is the tail end of a submarine.

 

Walking down another lane of 'stuff'.

 

Yvonne reckons I can get one of these for a train set.

 

A really big working steam engine.