Most of RDGA and a bit more

[leedude03]

corsican dreamer a good time was had, and as you say great roads and great places visited.

 

[leedude03]

first full day in the colmar area we toured the wine route taking in the beauty of all the villages along the route. in no particular order they included
Kayserberg
Turckheim
Obernai
Riquewihr
Pfaffenheim
Guebwiller
Ribeauville

hear are a few photos from the villages

 

[leedude03]

and a few more

 

[leedude03]

on the second day in the same area we decided to do the route de cretes going from north to south and then to call in at colmar and have a wander around little venice.

 

[leedude03]

and around little venice in colmar

 

[leedude03]

and a couple more

 

[leedude03]

these next few photos are not of a place of great beauty but of a place of great suffering and cruelty, This is natzweiler struthof it was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on present-day French territory, a very sobering place.

 

[leedude03]

our last day at colmar was to be spent with friends we were meeting up with in oppenhau in the black forest, We then moved onto Verdun, we had been there last year but missed a few things that we could pull in on this trip, one of them was the fort du verdun and the other was the Douaumont ossuary although we had seen this last year it was covered in scaffolding and was being cleaned.


Words sometime fail me

 

[leedude03]

Even though i had been here before, the effect it had on me was exactly the same and even just looking at those two pictures makes me well up inside.
over 16000 bodies buried and over 130000 underneath the ossuary. i cannot find words to describe this.

 

[leedude03]

the last place we would visit, fort verdun. at the time one of the biggest ww1 fortifications on the western front, well worth the 4 euro entrance fee.

 

[leedude03]

and inside

 

[leedude03]

Well after all that, all that was left to do was the run from verdun to calais and calais to home and it was all over.
in all the time we were away, 21 days, we had 25 minutes of rain that we were actually riding in , and that was it.
we did 3479 miles used used 66 gallon of fuel,
the pictures are just a snapshot of what we did, there was a lot more.
hope you all enjoyed them,

 

[Bem]

Great RR, well done for showing us some out of the way places, and so little rain!

 

[Homer1968]

Excellent RR Lee, enjoyed that

 

[leedude03]

thanks all for the kind words, now to plan for the next trip.

 

[adventuredon]

I rode those same gorges a few weeks ago. Brilliant and empty with decent scenery

 

[leedude03]

I rode those same gorges a few weeks ago. Brilliant and empty with decent scenery

yep pretty much the same for us, great weather great scenery and very little traffic.

 

[John B]

RDGA

Hi, Thanks for that and those Pictures, did a lot of that quite a few years ago, got me thinking as I'd love to go back....CheersJohn B

 

[Deleted account 210609001]

Great report and photos, thanks for taking the time to post them all.

I've been to some but by no means all of the places you visitied. It really makes me want to go again. Now.

 

[Norrie]

Enjoyed yer wee RR Leedude03 and the photos