May Day!

Today was a holiday for May Day. Jennifer, Cara and I met at the Hauptbahnhof with our bikes and took a ride along the Main. I took the Sbahn there and it was packed with bikes - everyone was out to enjoy the holiday and nice weather. We started in the state of Hessen and rode to Bavaria. Aschaffenburg isn't far into Bavaria, but it was a 56 km ride. I can't think of a more perfect ride though. It is along the Main the whole way, and there wasn't a single hill all day. The weather was cooler today (only got up to about 26 degrees). A lot of the way was in the shade and was perfect for biking.

Pretty much everyone gets a holiday on May Day here, so there were lots of people out enjoying the good weather. At one small town we ran into some kind of Fest going on. Unfortunately the bike path went right through the area of the Fest and so we had to wind our way through the crowd.

Our first picnic

The small town where we stopped for a picnic on the bike path. The bike path was paved pretty much the whole way. We were on the Mainradweg, following the Main river.

Crossing the Main. Almost there!

Only another 14 km to our destination

Arrived! This is the castle in Aschaffenburg. It is right on the water and we sat on the grass for another picnic.

56.29 km traveled!!

After travelling so far to get there we took the train back, along with a ton of other people - there were about 10-15 other people hoping to get on with bikes and at least the same already on the train. We had to run from one end of the train to the other because there were too many bikes in the front bike area. For a minute we thought that we wouldn't make it on, but luckily did. 

It was a perfect way to spend the day off. Outside, in the sun, on our bikes, and with friends :)