Interbike 2023

From Mainz to Köln

This bicycle and boat tour in Germany from Mainz to Cologne leads along the most beautiful stretch of the great Rhine River. A rich and varied history unfolded along these banks and has left its mark in culture, landscape, and the arts.

Today the entire Upper Middle Rhine Valley is designated a Unesco World Heritage Site, meeting the criteria for such on many levels. The gorges rise steeply on both river banks, protected now by strict building and developing codes, allowing the sheer beauty of the area to remain. It is not hard to step back in time.

This romantic river valley, with precipitous cliffs, steep vineyards, typical villages, and hilltop castles is best explored by bike and boat, land and river!

Highlights

• Rheingold and Loreley Rock
• Bacharach, Andernach, Rüdesheim near St. Goarshausen
• Koblenz and Lützel
• Bonn and Cologne
• Unsurpassed and timeless scenery
• Wonderful world-famous wine, afri-cola and beer

Mainz

Mainz is an independent city with a population of 218,578 (as of 2019) and forms part of the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region.^[3]

Rüdesheim

Sankt Goarshausen

Sankt Goarshausen is a town located in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis in Nassau on the eastern shore of the Rhine, in the section known as the Rhine Gorge, directly across the river from Sankt Goar, in the German state Rhineland-Palatinate.

Koblenz

At the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle Rivers and the convergence of three low mountain ranges – the Hunsrück, the Eifel and the Westerwald – the Romans founded a military stronghold they named Confluences for the site’s supreme strategic value.

Andernach

Andernach is a town in the district of Mayen-Koblenz, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, of about 30,000 inhabitants. We visited the Geysir:

Andernach Geyser ( German: Geysir Andernach, previously Namedyer Sprudel) is the highest cold-water geyser in the world, reaching heights of 30 to 60 metres. [1] The geyser was first bored in 1903 on the Namedy Peninsula ( Namedyer Werth) in the Rhine near Andernach.

Bonn

The federal city of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine located in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000.

Köln

Cologne is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 million people in the urban region. Wikipedia

Rock of Ages 2023

kurz vor dem Startschuss zum 15. ROCK OF AGES Sommer Open Air in Seebronn erreichte uns eine etwas traurige Nachricht: THE SWEET mußten aus gesundheiltichen Gründen absagen. Andy Scott und ein weiteres Bandmitglied sind an Covid erkrankt und Andy mußte sich sogar kurzfristig ins Krankenhaus begeben.
Wir wünschen den beiden an dieser Stelle von unserer Seite erst einmal gute Besserung – und wir warten dann eben ein weiteres Jahr auf ein Wiedersehen…
Ärgerlich.