This was our over-the-top day, literally. It started as a typical ride for recent days, rainy and cold through beautiful countryside. Given good weather, it would have been a beautiful route and enjoyable ride.
When we reach the outskirts of ettelbruck we took what we now know was a wrong turn. It took us through a tunnel and onto a busy limited access road. We stopped and pulled into the grass to reevaluate our situation; we couldn't go back because of the tunnel and couldn't go forward because of the highway, which had no space to ride beside it outside the high-speed traffic Lanes. The only other option was to go down the Steep grass embankment onto a small road which passed underneath the highway. The problem with that was a 6-foot chain-link fence bordering the highway. We took our suitcases out of the trailer cases and detached the trailer from the bike , and believe it or not we lifted all our gear and our tandem bike and our selves over the chain link fence. It was harder than I make it sound , but the important thing is we made it with no injury to our souls and no damage to the bike or equipment. In the previous sentence the software said Souls when I said selves but I will leave it that way. The picture below came out blank. You will have to take my word for it that we really did this. We are sore all over but feel we got off easy and took the only safe option out of our predicament.
Ettelbruck, in the very middle of Luxembourg, is a small, pretty town but we have no opportunity to explore or enjoy it. We had lunch at our hotel, showered, napped, and watched 3 soccer games of the European championships. The rain stopped later and we walked a couple of blocks and had stiff drinks, burgers and ice cream.
The weather forecast tomorrow is not great but better.
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