Hi Graeme here, I sub-titled this "a slow day" in part because we didn't cycle very far but also because we had a head wind for most of the day and Lia has been feeling a bit "under the weather" with a cold. The day didn't start well with poor signage (or bad navigation) causing us to get lost going in to Mannheim. The city is famous for 2 main things – 1) the home city of Mercedes-Benz with the first car driven here in 1888 and 2) the presence of the US army. We didn't see the army but saw Mercedes buses being built. After finally finding our way through the maze of roads to the western bank of the Rhine again struggled to find the right signs and again made several unnecessary diversions. Fortunately the weather again remained mild but by 2.30pm Lia had had enough and we decided to look for lodgings. We stopped in the town of Speyer but didn't find anything suitable so went to the next village. Here is a photo of out accommodation.
We went back to Speyer for dinner and a look at the cathedral of which I have a photo. It was built in 1111 and throughout the town beautiful sounding church bells greeted us ( well not us exactly as there were several weddings).
With all the detours and trip into Speyer we still managed nearly 70km for the day. We are both feeling very tired having travelled around 750km in these last 10 days so I will finish up here and get some rest.
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