The Final Countdown....

On Thursday night we will board the overnight train headed for Munich. On the train we will be sleeping in a couchette with four other people (yikes!). I hope no one snores.



Our basic itinerary is this:
-one night in Munich, take the train north to Augsburg.
-one night in Augsburg, bike to Donauworth.
-one night in Donauworth, bike to Nordlingen.
-one night in Nordlingen, bike to Dinkelsbuhl.
-two nights in Dinkelsbuhl, bike to Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber.
-two nights in R-o-d-T, train to Wurzburg.
-two night in Wurzburg (happy one year anniversary to us!), somehow ditch bikes, pick up rental car and drive to Rudesheim, just south of the Rhine Valley.
-one night in Rudesheim, drive to St. Goarshausen.
-one night in St. Goarshausen, drive to Boppard.
-one night in Boppard, drive to Bacharach.
-one night in Bacharach, drive to Bingen.
-one night in Bingen, drive to Frankfurt, get rid of car.
-one night and two days in Frankfurt, and we get on the train that Sunday night to come back to Paris.

The first leg of the trip, up to Wurzburg, is about half of the Romantic Road. The second bit, starting at Rudesheim is part of the Rhine Valley. And if any of you have found a map, you might notice that the cities on the Romantic Road are actually a lot farther apart than the ones we're visiting (by car) on the Rhine. If we were sane, we might have chosen to bike the Rhine instead, but we figured a car would allow greater convenience for transporting wine. Priorities...

And hopefully we can get bikes. It might turn out to be a bit of a pilgrimage for the first week or so if we have to walk between towns. But we won't worry about that...