Bicycle tour along the river Moselle on 22. of Juli 2017
(by Christa)
Finally a good bike carrier on the car! Less than 3 days old, when Michael came along to do a tour with me. So I had energetic help with fitting the 2 bikes to it and doing all the adjustments.
So with everything well secured we left of towards Cochem at the river Moselle, where there are beautiful bike paths.
The weather was comfortably warm that day shortly before the rainy season in august. I was fond on pace – on the bike I am able to let of steam, feeling the wind around my ears and just having fun. Michael, who did not use a bicycle for long – his 2 bikes are sitting in the garden and getting rusty – seemed to feel as much joy and power and so we did overtake each other, when not being able to cycle side by side !!
The most beautiful part of the cycle track leads through vineyards. There in the middle is an idyllic garden. In spring the whole garden was full of tulips. Now it was lush harvest time with tomatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, arugula, berries of all kinds, flowers and herbs. And also lots of wild things.
The garden is always open and it’s owner was there and told us how much he loves his garden and lets everything grow by itself. Nonetheless he tries to get a little order from time to time.
We tried some herbs and berries and then headed towards Bullay / Zell.
On the way back I had something in mind that I can never resist on my tours – having a coffee in a small café aside the way where you can sit outside.
So a bit uphill on a wine trail towards the café with a terrace and homemade cake. Soon we had two cheeky guests, who eagerly and cleverly picked up our cake crumbs.
And look, whatever channel of information they used – more and more of them came around and the cake dwindled! They were really brave and very trusting – and we had fun.
Back home we felt well refreshed with Moselle vineyard air, with joy over our fast tour and a very little bit tired !