{"id":561,"date":"2011-05-22T21:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T01:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T19:25:00","slug":"day-3-sunday-may-22-nijmegen-netherlands-to-wesel-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Day 3, Sunday, May 22 – Nijmegen, Netherlands to Wesel, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

We awoke to the sound of a lovely Sunday morning rain, perfect time to roll over and sleep in…..wait<\/strong> a minute<\/em>, this sounds like a line out of Kurt’s book of “why I’m late”, excuses.
\nThe smell of coffee finally pulled us from our cozy bed, so we stumbled downstairs for another hearty breakfast, complete with Brotchen (THE most wonderful breakfast roll).<\/p>\n

It would have been a lovely town to spend the morning, but with our short ride yesterday, we were both ready to ride.<\/p>\n

Once again, as the church bell tolled 10 am, we rode out of town during a break in the showers.<\/p>\n

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Actually, the break in showers turned into a beautiful day.\u00a0 In a word, a Magnificent morning ride.<\/p>\n

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We were not the only ones enjoying a Sunday morning ride.<\/p>\n

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With the bike path like this, you can’t but help wanting to ride, everyday.\u00a0 At some point during all the beautiful countryside, we unceremoniously crossed the German border, though we cannot tell you exactly where.<\/p>\n

A shout goes out to Klaas, whom we met last evening and blew by us today on his 100 kilometer ride (sorry we couldn’t join you).<\/p>\n

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A side note from yesterday, and probably again during our travels:\u00a0 we are actually traveling UP the River Rhine.\u00a0 Which gives us a certain amount of satisfaction when we pass the river barges as they struggle UP river.\u00a0 So if we again mention, down the river, we have not changed directions (yet) just a mistake!<\/p>\n

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I was informed today, however, if we don’t do 50 miles a day, we’ll not make it to Istanbul this year.\u00a0 So either we’re not making it to Istanbul, or we’re not making it home this year.<\/p>\n

We crossed the longest bridge in Germany (3\/4 mile)<\/p>\n

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into Emmerich am Rhine, the most destroyed (bombed) German city during World War II.\u00a0 The town seems to have recovered beautifully as we biked over brick paved roads and past beautiful old churches on our way out of town down along a dedicated bike path.<\/p>\n

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After about an hour with the wind at our back and feeling good, we decided to go the more scenic route.\u00a0 So we took a turn into the town of Rees.<\/p>\n

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Though there was a huge street party, we managed to get out of town unscathed.\u00a0 Probably should have stayed for the party as we somehow strayed way off course.\u00a0 It was satisfying though, that the sport car road rally followed us down our wayward road.\u00a0 As the road turned to dirt, everyone realized a backtrack was necessary.<\/p>\n

Back on<\/em> track, we still had another 15 miles to town. \u00a0 Though the wind had gotten very gusty and the sky threatened rain,<\/p>\n

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the day was still fabulous.<\/p>\n

By 5:00 we made our destination town, Wesel,\u00a0 a quick beer<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>and a hotel by 6:00.\u00a0 We had talked about having a traditional German dinner and didn’t have to walk far.\u00a0 The first restaurant we came to,<\/p>\n

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Galland Restaurant was all German food, all German menu, all German waiters and no English spoken, except us.\u00a0 We managed to order the two things we almost recognized and were not disappointed.\u00a0 The restaurant treated us to an after dinner aperitif to put a perfect finish on a perfect meal and day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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