The sunshine wakes us up. Yesterday children were noisily playing and yelling on the playground close to our tents until 11:30pm. The mothers who stood by were talking at the same volume. After that we got to listen to a loud frog concert. It was good that we were tired and able to fall asleep despite all the noise.
We are quickly disassembling and packing the tents and everything else. Our navigation app is suggesting we pass through the vineyard behind the campground, which we are doing. In places it is very steep (20%) and consists of loose gravel so that it is almost impossible to ride on it. But after 1km we arrive at the summit bathed in sweat and come to a locked gate. But we find a small hole in the fence that a person can crawl through. We are able to pass the baggage and bicycles over the fence (I already know this routine from my Sicily trip, but it is a lot better with two people), and then we continue up and down through the vineyards.
After 30km we are able to have breakfast in Alzey and to buy a new camera in the Media-Markt electronics store in that town.
On to Worms. Shortly after Worms we finally get to the Rhine river again, and we follow it all the way to Ludwigshafen. Then we cross the Rhine Bridge into Mannheim, which does not seem to end. We have to wait for a lot of traffic lights. The bike path is often so complicated to follow (especially around railroad crossings) that we would not have been able to find it without our navigation app. But the terrain is flat, no big rises anymore. Finally we get to Sandhausen (via Schwetzingen), where Konrad and Brunhilde are already expecting us.
Tomorrow we are planning a wellness day at a thermal bath in Walldorf (5km from here). The day after tomorrow (on Monday) we will continue further south.