CrossRhine cycle Tour – culture and wine on the Rhine

This tour was recently recommended in the Radwelt (ADFC newspaper). I can easily get there with the 49 euro ticket. Thought, done. At first I was a bit shocked by the number of tourists in Bingen on Monday, but behind the destroyed Hintenburg Bridge, a memorial, there was a nature reserve on the Rhine, and it went up into the vineyards with beautiful views. I particularly liked the great grounds of the castle church in Ingelheim. Here in the beautifully landscaped park I ate my lunch from my bike bag. When I was young there were great music festivals up here, which I remember from way back. 😂 We now took the ferry across the Rhine twice and on the Rüdesheim side in between again over the vineyards with a magnificent view. Overall, it was a pretty nice tour: train ride, along the Father Rhine, panoramic vineyard slopes, double boat trip and not forgetting the beautiful castle church in Ingelheim. 😀 Info: https://www.rheingau.com/tour/querrhein-radtour-tourentipp/tour.html# Listentojules . Movin' on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEykMsXpPgs

This Monday, Jürgen's tour to Bingen was on the agenda. It was supposed to be hot. We were lucky that the train was leaving from platform 120. (At the moment it was chaos in KL, the main elevator is being renovated and that will take until the end of September. If the platform elevators work, you end up in the basement and none of the stairs have a bicycle slider up or down. What kind of engineers are they who did the planning here?) We then had a train at 9:31 that doesn't stop everywhere and we were in Bingen at 10:38. Surprise here, you have to take the elevator up to a bridge, but then you have free travel towards the Rhine. So we set off through Bingen and on to Gau-Algesheim and Ingelheim, where we arrived around lunchtime. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any restaurants open and everything was closed on the Rhine. So in the heat, with only a little water left, we took the ferry across the Rhine to Hesse. But it's no better here on Mondays. Then we found an EDEKA and bought sandwiches and drinks there and ate and drank everything. In the meantime it had become quite hot. So the last few kilometers until we arrived in Rüdesheim were almost like a tour. But here an ice cream café was open and there was space. So we had a good rest until we crossed over by ferry and stopped off in the beer garden again because we wanted to take the 6:43 p.m. train with few stops, which later turned out not to be such a good idea. Everyone wanted to take it and in KL it was diverted to platform 5 - see description above. With all this back and forth I left my backpack on the platform in Bingen. But since I had stapled my business card right on top I got a call saying it was on the next train to KL. So I had to wait another half hour and the train attendant then gave it to me. Despite the misfortune I was still lucky. So an eventful and hot day came to an end.

Today I'm inviting you to the QuerRhein bike tour to Bingen during the city cycling event. We're going by train: 3x Deutschlandticket and 2x Rheinlandpfalzticket. The sun is shining and we are having fun... From the comment of my group in August last year: "Behind the destroyed Hintenburg Bridge, a memorial, a nature reserve begins on the Rhine, and it goes up into the vineyards with beautiful views. I particularly like the beautiful grounds of the castle church in Ingelheim. Here in the superbly landscaped park I eat my lunch from my bike bag. When I was young there were great music festivals up there, which I remembered from a long time ago. 😂 The ferry now takes us across the Rhine twice and on the Rüdesheim side we cross the vineyards again with a magnificent view. Overall, it is a good tour: train ride, along the Father Rhine, panoramic vineyard slopes, double boat trip and not forgetting the mega castle church in Ingelheim. " 😀 Junipa Gold . Raging River https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqFpPV7lTB4

A journalist from hessenschau.de had complained that there wasn't a Hessian cycle path among the 10 most beautiful cycle paths in Germany. He had therefore linked to an article about the most beautiful Hessian cycle paths. When I heard the keyword "Rhine," I immediately responded and downloaded the "Cross-Rhine Cycle Tour" from Komoot. I chose the large parking lot at the end of Kirchstrasse in Winkel as my starting point. The route went via Geisenheim to Rüdesheim. Along the way, I had seen a notice advertising that Geisenheim University sells the results of its research to anyone. In Rüdesheim, I had pasta for lunch at an Italian restaurant. I took the ferry over to Bingen. Forget about the Hessian Cycle Path; the majority of it runs through Rheinhessen, but it's actually part of Rhineland-Palatinate! I continued through vineyards via Gau-Algesheim to Ingelheim. Here, I took a significant shortcut compared to the original route and headed toward the ferry. Since the tour hasn't taken me along the Rhine so far, I made a detour to the Oestricher Kran. The tour wasn't great. Perhaps that was because the vines hadn't budded yet. Later in the year, I might take a tour of the vineyards on the Taunus slopes. That seems more interesting.