The spiders perspective: It's 9pm and I have just woken up, I fell asleep on the balcony again and now I am hungry! Oh look I have new guests in the hotel room, a handsome young man who looks english and a beautiful young woman, who is clearly Swedish. They are lounging around and because it's hot they have left the door open. Excellent, that means all the flies and Mosquitos, my favourite meals, are already flying in to have a nibble on the mans butt, and th...

I'm not sure if it was simply a coincidence or our subliminal minds at work, but on the morning of our arrival into the lovely town of Bacharach, Dan and I did indeed spend some time singing "Close to You" - fitting eh?? As you can imagine, now that we're on our 9th day of cycling we have covered a multitude of subjects to fill in the hours - from Dan's songs and animal voices in Belgium (although quite funny at the time, these were quite quickly banned by the f...

Rhine Rhine Rhine! Finally we have arrived on the Rhine and it is BEAUTIFUL! We set off bright and early, hitting the cycle paths at 8am. As we left Cologne the Rhine changed from a city scape to rolling hills and forests, and the cycle paths were immaculate, wide and well kept. We flew along and it was 1pm when we arrived at the ferry to cross over to the opposite bank for konnigswinter, a quiet tourist town. Nobody speaks english but Sally is doing a fin...

Guten abend alles!! Dan and I have hit Deutshchland - our third country in 7 days (not counting those multiple crossings as we looped through Belgium and Holland in those first few days). 7 hours and 3 trains later (baaaaad connections) we have arrived in Cologne, and both of us are finding it totally weird to be back in a big city again. In just a week we have become so used to the peaceful countryside and little towns, we feel quite out of our depths in all t...

REST DAY! Such a good one too, after a good night's sleep we headed off to Pukklepop, the Belgium music festival Sally had been to a few times before and wanted to take me to. It was awesome and so very different to any uk (and according to Sally, any Australian) festival, with hardly any security and people generally behaving well considering all the "special cigarettes" they were openly smoking! The journey to the festival site was pretty horrible though, wi...