Seligenstadt - A Miraculous Tour Around France and Germany - CycleBlaze

September 19, 2017

Seligenstadt

We started the day by hunting out the cycle shop I had contacted last night. A bit of a ride through the outer suburbs of Frankfurt but we found it. It is closed on Tuesday but the shop looks fine quite unlike the ones we saw yesterday. We have a track now from our airport hotel to it so shouldn't have any difficulties

That over we were back on the path beside the river. The path is perfectly marked and skilfully winds its way through the massive amount of industry surrounding this big city. For some kilometres it goes through a park on the riverside and from here you can look across to the city. Frankfurt is a city that goes on and on and we were nearly here before we escaped industry and housing The Main is a much smaller river than the Rhine but it has a lot of commercial traffic on it. Some of the barges are huge and navigating them in such a tight space must require a lot of skill. A fair few of them were floating very high in the river, they must have taken their loads upstream and were coming back without a back load.

Seligenstadt is a wonderful old town with a market square surrounded by half timbered buildings. Unfortunately our hotel is out of this centre and is a comfortable modern building surrounded by other modern buildings. We will walk back tonight to have our dinner and soak up some of the atmosphere

Finding the bike shop
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Pumpkins on the way to
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A fine track
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Fixing Ken's backpack
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Looking across tthe o Frankfurt
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And again
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Loading the ferry
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Hi tech mowers
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Passing villages on the otherside
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A massive church
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Locks on the river
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This swan had a little white friend
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Today's ride: 73 km (45 miles)
Total: 2,403 km (1,492 miles)

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