MOSEL RIVER SATURDAY AND THE RAIN IT CAME

SATURDAY AND THE RAIN IT CAME

As promised and right on time and as we set off, it was pouring. Rain continued as we cycled for four hours. We stopped for a moral-boosting cake and coffee towards the end.  

Coffee and Cake

Arriving at our billet for the night in TRITTENHEIM we actually stayed over a winery, the Rheinhaus Hermes Hof) wine making below – gasthaus above. We readily agreed that none of us had slept on top of so much wine hitherto.

Rain on the roof tops of Trier

Several hours were spent working out the best clothes drying strategy as aside from a pannier all we had was all we wore.

Balance of Saturday sampling the charming output from Herr Hermeshof’s labours including a smooth, curvaceous red called Dorfleder, more than lovely. 

Everyone a winner everyone a gem

Across the street we enjoyed a late lunch and returned for supper. As were leaving for the evening the immediate vicinity of our table was serenaded by four men of a certain age from the NE of England. We had seen them in Trier and were to come across them and their colourful lycra several times in the next couple of days.