April 12
"castles and vineyards - but no time to go inside"
Used the internet in the morning - it is inside of a camper by the main office. Woke up and went to the grocery store for breakfast - pastries, yogurt, brötchen. Rolling up tent in the morning got my biking gloves soaking wet and froze my fingers. Won't make that mistake again. In the future, I would always move tent into sunny location upon waking and wait for it to fully dry before packing it up.
Went through Koblenz, stopping briefly at Deutsches Eck where the Rhein meets the Mosel, which I would thence follow into France. In the photo below, the Rhein is going S-N horizontally and the Mosel is flowing W-E above the monument. I rode around it counter-clockwise during the day.
Deutsches Eck (below)
Most English translations use the French spelling of Moselle, but I think that since the Mosel was scenic in Germany and sucked in France, it makes more sense to use the German spelling. Made it to Cochem, the biggest city inbetween Cochem and Trier and therefore a natural stopping point. Many castles and wine-laden hillsides - though did not stop in any of them except to rest a few moments.
Nice campground, refreshing pool. Less train traffic on opposite bank than in Oberwesel (on Mosel River now), but potentially enough to wake me. Amazing vineyard hills today. Contemplated wine-tasting but chose against it, fearing it might exhaust my momentum.
pastries 1.50
yogurt 0.40
2 Brötchen 1
Pea soup, potato salad 5
Campground 10.50
2 showers 1.80
swimming 6.40
food 6.31 [2 bananas, 150g energy bars, turkey (100g), buttermilk (500g), cheese (140g), peanuts (200g)]