{"id":6998,"date":"2024-07-05T11:37:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2024-07-06T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T11:38:18","slug":"eurotrip-12-north-to-the-rhine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=6998","title":{"rendered":"Eurotrip 12 – North to the Rhine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We left Schluchsee on Wednesday morning a little before 09:00 in preparation for a 230 mile trip North to the Rhine. The traffic was busy, there were lots of roadworks and we didn’t arrive until sometime after 4pm. We are staying for a few weeks at Camping Loreleystadt in St Goarhausen, between, Rudesheim and Koblenz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site is quiet and we have a large pitch overlooking the Rhine.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our pitch at Camping Loreleystadt, St Goarhausen, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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There is stunning scenery here but the Rhine river and valley is very much a “working” river. Enormous barges are sailing past constantly and a railway line hugs each side of the river edge, as well as roads and cycle paths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday we headed down the east bank of the Rhine as far as the town of Lorch, where there is a ferry across to the west bank. We arrived first at a causeway on the river, where we were greeted by a 3.3m tall bronze female statue which watches the ships travelling up and down the waterway. She shares her name with the 132m high rock – Loreley. The site of this rock and the curve in the Rhine has destroyed an untold number of ships, including in 2011, the capsizing of a barge carrying 2,400 tons of Sulphuric acid.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lorelei, siren of Germanic mythology, Germany, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Crossing the river at Lorch (the ferry was 3.3 Euros each which included passenger and bicycle) we then headed north to St Goar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We passed Pfalzgrafenstein Castle which is a toll castle on Falkenau island, otherwise known as Pfalz Island near Kaub. The castle functioned as a toll-collecting station that was not to be ignored. It worked in concert with Gutenfels Castle and the fortified town of Kaub on the right side of the river.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pfalzgrafenstein Castle, nr Kaub, Germany, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

On reaching St Goar, we enjoyed some refreshments and watched the first half of the Euros football match between Spain and Germany, which Spain won 2-1 aet. We then crossed back to our side of the river and ate at one of the local retaurants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some more pictures from our ride.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cycle ride (approx 40km) along the Rhine, Germany, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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End of ride refreshments (plus football), St Goat, Germany, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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We left Schluchsee on Wednesday morning a little before 09:00 in preparation for a 230 mile trip North to the Rhine. The traffic was busy, there were lots of roadworks and we didn’t arrive until sometime after 4pm. We are staying for a few weeks at Camping Loreleystadt in St Goarhausen, between, Rudesheim and Koblenz. … Continue reading Eurotrip 12 – North to the Rhine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-france-and-germany","category-2024-europe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}