Saarbrücken - Reil 185 km (1000 m altitude difference)

was really afraid that my thighs would hurt again today. Even getting up was difficult, after saddling up and rolling in I started. And what can I say? It went. There was no trace of the usual whining. That's a very good sign for my fitness, regenerating during a tour. So today I decided to ride a bit up the Moselle as soon as I got there. But first 80 km of Saar. Lots of diversions on the way, but what can I say? Very well signposted! Not like the Elbe cycle path, which is supposed to be Germany's most beautiful. #warumauchimmer

The app sent me up a small hill past one of Germany's 100 "most important" trees (I could have gone around it, but I wanted to climb) and then threw up down an overgrown single trail through some poisonous thorn bush, still itching. Then down a hilly gravel road with red dust still hanging everywhere. It was fun, especially the climbing. I flew up every little climb again today. Around noon I was in Konz, at the mouth of the Saar, and went back up the Moselle, or down the valley as it's called in the jargon, in the direction of Koblenz. I had to do a few more kilometres so that I'd be home tomorrow, which meant getting within range today. So I passed Trier and cut short or climbed into the backland. It wasn't as dull as I thought up there, nice villages. Then at some point I was back at the Moselle, at the top of a vineyard. Wonderful panorama! I could hardly get away. And there were people sitting on the benches enjoying the view too, nice conversations, but I had to go on, shopping and my chosen campsite closed at eight. But everything was chillingly achieved. Whoever still wants to stretch me now, tomorrow I'll go back over the Hundsrück into the Rhine valley, then Main valley, if everything goes as expected. Tomorrow I'll be back home, the appointments are piling up again and the next 2 weeks won't be very busy with biking. But there are some great things in there, maybe I'll have some really good news to report soon, no children, that wouldn't be good news for me at all. In this sense, good night