Day 65, Thursday 23 July, 1970

Distance: 165 km
Weather: The same as yesterday, in other words: good.

I was looking for a nice cup of coffee all the way from St Martin to Gruenstadt, where I finally found what I needed in a hotel. (Not in my postcard report: I discovered in that hotel that a continental style breakfast of various kinds of bread and a large can of coffee was really cheap. I wished I had discovered that earlier...)

From Gruensbach the road went through a rolling landscape all the way to Bingen. From there flat roads along both sides of the Rhine. A lot of tourists, especially Dutch ones, along this stretch. I had two eggrolls in Koblenz and then some more bread on the camping. The camping lies across from the so-called "Deutsche Eck", where the Rhine meets up with the Mosel. (I have added an aerial picture from Google maps below where you can see the camping still in the same beautiful spot. I camped there more than 20 years later again with son Peter and his friend Joost on a bike trip mostly following the Rhine.)