2012 - Greg's Cycle Tour Zurich to Amsterdam: DAY 28: WED 19 SEP

Ride: 60km; total: 1,330km

Partly cloudy, but fine 6-16deg

Best breakfast so far at the Berial Motel, including individually made coffee and some prawn salad. Only took a few minutes to get back on the Rhine mostly through parks. Once there the path was wide and smooth. Very cool and it didn't warm up much all day, in fact it felt cooler as we went. It started to rain about 7km from the finish so I stopped and put my booties and hood on. Although it didn't keep raining I felt warm for the first time in the day. The whole day saw some fairly rough patches and some very good smooth paths. Stopped at Duisburg city centre for coffee then at the Inner Harbour for lunch. It was cold sitting still so we didn't stay long. Duisburg is the largest inland harbour in the world, which is not hard to believe when you cycle around all the wharfs and canals.

Arrived at Rheinburg and found the Motel, Rheintor, 76euro for a nice big twin room. Graham was getting fairly tied again; he was 74 years old during this trip. We went walking at separate times during the afternoon through a nice neat and clean mall, but not a lot of people. Eventually I had a little sleep. Rheinberg is a lovely city which doesn't look big enough to be one. It's over 1,000 years old although it doesn't seem to have many really old buildings, castles or walls. The bombs during WW2 took care of that.

As there weren’t many options available we ate dinner at the attached restaurant and it was great food. I had pork medallions with salad and potato/bacon side dish which was the nicest meal I've had for ages. Graham had schnitzel and chips which he couldn't finish as it was too big, but really nice.

It was too cold outside for a walk so it was up to the room, clean teeth and into bed for some reading.

Another good day.