Wednesday 6th June 2012 to Saturday 9th June 2012

We left Kirschlengen in the dry as, thankfully, it had stopped raining. Len gave us both a hug and was joined by Doris's next door neighbour, Rosie, who also wanted to give us a hug and wish us well on our journey.


Despite the fact that we had now fitted our intercoms to our helmets during our stay at Doris's we managed to lose each other within a couple of miles and so we each had a separate trip to Ober-Leibersbach in the Odenwald area of Germany. We had been there before so we both knew where we would end up and I was only about 15 minutes into unloading my  bike at the campsite when Mark turned up. We analysed how we had lost each other but it didn't really matter as we were back on track now.

Lunchtime at the campsite

Our Pitch

We set up the tents and settled down for a long weekend of catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. One girl, Fern, had just set out on her lifetime journey - England to New Zealand - only to find out that her bike's engine had given up the ghost and she is now waiting to take it back to the UK to get it fixed quickly so that she can ship back out in time for her visas to be still of use to her.


The campsite is cosy and around 100 bikers have turned up for this meeting. We are heading to the Czech Republic on Monday so we are keeping our fingers crossed that the weather holds out.

Forest Walk near the Campsite

View of the Campsite from Nearby Ridge