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<\/a>A couple more blocks and we were back on the Rhein to glorious sunshine.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we missed everything else of the city as the path, sidewalk and road was littered with broken glass.\u00a0 We tiptoed out of town very disappointed.\u00a0 But soon our trail took us away from the Rhein and through beautiful vineyards and all was good in the world.<\/p>\nOur course directions today were poor (at best) and the road signs worse.\u00a0 Seems as if every time we are on a straight bike path there are arrows pointing the direction every 100 feet.\u00a0 But take us through a town and forget it, not a single sign.\u00a0 We wove laboriously in and out of small towns with rough cobblestone streets, missing chances of any good pictures with the twisting roads to navigate.\u00a0 Not sure how, but Jerry managed to navigate us through each town without loosing ‘all’ patience.\u00a0 Not a stretch of the course I would want to do again. Must say we do miss the last couple of days of busy Rhein traffic and hills stretching to the sky on either side of the river.\u00a0 With most of the river traffic behind us, it was a much quieter river on our brief encounters with it today.<\/p>\n By 1:00, we were quickly approaching our destination town of Worms, we took a break and had lunch.\u00a0 Jerry ordered the daily special (note 2 heaping piles of INCREDIBLE German potato salad), since he’d done so well with the daily special the day before.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>It didn’t last long.<\/p>\n
\nThe day, however, was stupendously beautiful, sunshine and a light wind and not without a couple trips down beautiful farmland paths.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> I wanted something small, recognized tomato and cheese ‘something’, based on the price figured it could be but so big…<\/p>\n<\/a>…….WRONG.\u00a0 And of course, you need to wash this down with something…………..<\/p>\n<\/a>Warning:\u00a0 stay out of the way of moving forks and knives.<\/p>\n<\/a>So, now both of us feeling incredibly guilty decided to go further, to work off some of our divine lunch.\u00a0 Little did we know the light breeze we had earlier would turn into an in your face <\/strong>wind.\u00a0 A quick trip through Worms, did produce a couple interesting sights.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>We finally reached our ‘new’ destination town at 3:30, but took us until 5 pm to find a hotel.\u00a0 Though Ludwigshafen am Rhein is large, there are very few hotels; not really a destination city.\u00a0 However, from the 17th floor bar, we had an incredible view of this industrial city and Mannheim across the Rhein.<\/p>\n<\/a>Still amazed at how many people smoke, but add this to the surprising……….<\/p>\n