Day 19,20 &21

Just a small thak you to seb for the very helpfull word of advice "its just another mars bar further" these words have been used almost every day. its a amaving some one so bald could come up with such helpfull words of advice.

Any way after a good nights sleep and cold water bags my nee seemed fine so of i set. I set of in the direction of the rien its was about 2 hours in that it started to rain it got so bad i could not see more than 5meters in front of me, so pull over and joined elderly german man hiding in a smoking shelter once the rain had cleard i set again it rain on and off during the day i finally found the rien quite hard to miss as its a massive river but then set about finding a camp for the night thank fully another helpfull native pointed me in the direction of a camp site, where i meet my first english couple they had retired and where doing a 60 day cycle along the rien. It was so good to be able to have a conversation in english. The camp site was in sane there where marble statues in the toilets the germany arew really in to the camping/carvanning. the camp site had a nice little store where i bought my self a two bottle of cider. I join the english couple after lunch in the there massive tent ( which when i do this again is one of the tings im changing while my tent is good its very small and getting changed requires quite bit of contortion to complete) so i nice chat about where they had been and there futher plans, went to bed around 10 ish

after a nice nights sleep i woke to sunsine so after packing away my stuff and have a shower i set off following the rine. In my last post i mentioned getting lost, well i hate citys i all ways get lost in them, the country side is much easier to navigate but cites with the winding streets and no clear sky line Grrrrr any way AS YOU HAVE GUESED I GOTS LOST FOR A HOUR OR TWO cant quite rember the name of the town, manged to find my way and back on to the cycle path. When i came to the next town i was looking at my map and a couple on there way from work pull over next to my and asked if need help so i asked for dirction to the campsite i wanted to stay at, they then proceded to take me half way there while talking about the touring exprenses. ( i would like to point out at this point if it was not for all the helpfull poeple i've meet along the way i would probable be not enjoy as much as i am, and mite have ended up in deppest darkest russian by now) fund the camp site not quoite as nice as the other and it was raining but a very nice lady said could under her porches and gave me a bowl of stewberrrys. it rained most of the night.

after a early start i set out i decided to have a short day as it was raining ( as i write this its hailing so perhaps, so i good thing i did) im stay in a hostel 34 km from Koln where i plan on staying two day the weather forcasts are rain for the next 7 days :) ill updats maps and pic next time i log in