Eiffel - Day 1 - Höfen - Hillesheim

This is the route my brother, me and my dad rode on our first day:

We drove with the car to Höfen and found a good place to park our car. We also found a toilet nearby which made me and my brother really happy 😇

Pretty quickly after we started we hit our first trail which was nice and exciting, including lots of roots.

The roads today were really cool but because my dad planned the route from scratch we had a couple of… interesting roads 😂

We continued on and we experienced some nice sunny moments, which were really nice (and will probably not be repeated for the next couple of days 😏).

And then… we discovered that we were crossing the Siegfried line, which was an anti tank defence from World War II (i think).

The adventure did continue and we were at a dead end again after a while. We tried continuing through the woods but had to go back in the end.

After around 40km we found a really nice Backerei and had a nice coffee and cheese cake.

I started to get pretty tired after this stop and the next climbs were pretty exhausting for me. My dad and brother both have electric MTBs so they had less of a problem 😜

We arrived at our hotel at 16:30 and after checking in and showering we went out for dinner.

The next couple of days will be interesting as rain is coming so we’re not entirely sure how much fun it’s going to be. But today was really fun and nice!

See you tomorrow!