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Tag 8: Nahe Andernach bis Bonn.

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After a great night under the apple trees I woke up and had a great idea: Why not call Arne, a (recumbent) cyclist I know from the Viking Tour. He lived in Sankt Augustin and has moved to Bonn recently. He invited me to stay at his place for the night and we found a meeting point under the first Rhine bridge at 18:30.The distance was about 60km and so I could make a relaxed day, doing some things on the TODO list.For lunch I prepared a soup in Andernach and enjoyed it with some bread on the Rhine. Before that I had a paket sent back with some books and other stuff I didn’t need. Thereafter I called my mother and sister to prepare them for the arrival of the paket - they’ve made some negative experience with a packet I had sent from Norway about 2 years before :-P Then I chilled on the bike along the Rhine river enjoying the beautiful weather and more and more cyclists as I neared Bonn. 20 or 30km in front of Bonn I met Toni, a recumbent cyclist who was also cycling a StreetMachine GT.

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Together we’ve had a long conversation and he told me about an important historic bridge from WWII we passed by.After we had arrived in Bonn we cycled along the left Rhine side near the former Bundestag and many other once important buildings.

We went to VeloCity, a big cycling shop in Bonn and there we split.I met Arne at 18:15 near the bridge where he came to fetch me with his racing bike. On the way back to his home we rode over the Rhine and Arne also over a rat which didn’t care enough when crossing the cycling path.Together with Arne, Ute and her mother we’ve had a nice evening visiting the Rhine promenade for sunset, having an ice and a conversation until 0:30.

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