Eiffel - Day 3 - Langscheid - Schmidtheim

This is the route we rode today:

We had a good breakfast (strawberries, yum!) and we started cycling at 08:20. It was raining in the morning but when we started it was nice and dry.

We had to stop a couple of times today because my brother had some issues with losing baggage today 😂

The day started pretty good and we had some nice roads to ride on.

But then it started raining and we started descending down into the woods. At a certain point we noticed that the road was blocked a bit further back (but we came off a side road) but we just continued on. What we realized afterwards was that this means that trees had been cut down recently, so the road just stopped.

We looked at our options and we took a side road which had some trees laying over the road.

It was pouring rain and the road started to deteriorate more and more due to the heavy machines which had been recently there. I was starting to doubt if this was the right decision.

In the end we managed to get down to a better road. At a certain point I was fearing that we had to backtrack but all went ok. It stopped raining and we had some coffee at a gas station.

We started ascending again and crossed a village where we saw flower ornaments. People passing by told us it’s a holiday today: Corpus Christi. Which means even less open cafes and restaurants 😇

Our climbing continued and it was now around lunchtime. We passed a couple of benches but they weren’t ideal. In the end we had a standing buffet 😂

The climb to the plateau was gradual but it took us around 20 kilometres. It wasn’t too difficult but we had some rainy bits in between which made choosing between a raincoat or not kinda annoying. We stopped at a point where people doing a pelgrims walk to Compostella also passed by.

We arrived at our destination around 15:40 which was pretty early considering the route we had to tackle. Luckily the sun was shining so we took the time to clean our luggage (always tricky to enter the hotel with luggage dripping with mud). My bike is still pretty dirty though 😇

Luckily we also had time to enjoy the sunshine as the hotel only opened at 17:00.

The hotel is really nice and we had a really good dinner. Tomorrow we’ll be finishing our trip and we’ll be driving back home.

See you tomorrow!