{"id":167,"date":"2017-05-17T05:51:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T05:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/?p=167"},"modified":"2017-05-18T20:24:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:24:30","slug":"in-to-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/2017\/05\/17\/in-to-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"In to the City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Day 5: Boppard to Mainz<\/h2>\n

I checked out of the hotel in Boppard after breakfast, loaded my luggage in to the car and drove off to start the next leg of my German road trip.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My journey today would take me in to the third Federal State this week: I would enter Hessen. My first stop was in R\u00fcdesheim-am-Rhein<\/a>. To get there I took one of the ferry crossings across the Rhine<\/a>, which was quite easy. Once in R\u00fcdesheim I found somewhere to park near the river, and for a couple of hours I wanted the narrow streets, looking at the interesting buildings.<\/p>\n

I took the Seilbahn (cable car) up to the viewpoint and monument at the top, got some great views looking down in to the town and over the Rhine.<\/p>\n

After, I returned to the town and sat in an Eiscafe with an Eisschockolade (effectively it’s a chocolate milkshake with ice cream in it: perfect for this weather). I had lunch there too, before I returned to the car.<\/p>\n

I sort of did things in the wrong order, as my journey to the Loreley<\/a> took me back where I’d just come from – but I didn’t mind. I got a good view and a good walk up there.<\/p>\n

Next I would be going somewhere completely new: To Mainz-Wiesbaden.<\/p>\n

Mainz is the capital city of Rheinland-Pfalz, while Wiesbaden is the capital city of Hessen. The two are almost right next to each other – with my accommodation for the next 2 nights being in Mainz-Kastell: A district of Wiesbaden just over the river from Mainz City Centre.<\/p>\n

Once I’d come off the Autobahn and on to the road towards the hotel, traffic became quite heavy: The evenin g rush hour was under way and it was getting towards 5pm. Thankfully the hotel was easy to find – although I did miss the turning and then had to find my way back through the traffic (no chance of turning round on that<\/em> road in that<\/em> traffic – but I saw a cut-through on the Sat Nav screen which would get me facing the right direction again).<\/p>\n

After settling in to the hotel I walked in to the centre Mainz<\/a>: About 1,5km from the hotel, 30 minutes by foot. It ocurred to me that I’ve driven further in to Mainz than I have done to London! Quite a scary thought, actually!<\/p>\n

I had dinner in the centre of Mainz, on one of the squares – then I returned to the hotel, getting back at 10.<\/p>\n

Today I’ve got quite a bit of driving to do. I’m going down to Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg to visit the Hockenheimring (F1 race track), and then if there’s time, I might wander in to North West Bavaria on the way back (even if this does add quite a bit of milage).<\/p>\n

Bis bald,<\/p>\n

FH.<\/p>\n

Today’s Mileage:<\/strong> 91 Miles
\nAccumulative Mileage:<\/strong> 697 Miles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mainz is the capital city of Rheinland-Pfalz, while Wiesbaden is the capital city of Hessen. The two are almost right next to each other – with my accommodation for the next 2 nights being in Mainz-Kastell: A district of Wiesbaden just over the river from Mainz City Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mainz","category-ruedesheim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/DSCN2481.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fred-hart.de\/rheinland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}