...Friday was another beautiful sunshine day!....Started the day in Germany....Didn't get the best nights sleep!....The campsite was quiet enough in itself but when we chose it, we hadn't noticed the train track on the other side of the road!...Trains ran all night long!.....The morning was spent first meandering down the Mosel....Beautiful....Then we had about 30 miles of Autobahn before reaching Luxembourg....After a fattening lunch of ice-cream we headed for France.....But going up a hill, the chain broke!.....It was a reasonably quiet but fast moving road with barriers at the side so we unloaded the bike and I pushed it a few hundred yards to a parallel vinyard track only feet from where we had stopped.....It had broken on the link so I was able to fix it with a spare....Hopefully it will see us home!.....

....Repairing the chain in Luxembourg.....

...Saturday we woke up in Thionville in France.....We were on the road by 7:30 as the forecast was HOT....Heading for Reims, we stopped at an olde village coffee shop before visiting L'Ossuaire de Douaumont....My knowledge of European History had not prepared me for this monument...Standing in the centre of the Verdun Battlefield of WWI, it is the resting place of 140,000 unknown soldiers from the surrounding battlefield where close to 400,000 men lost their lives...It sits there like a vast tomb....Graves are still being laid outside....In the centre of the monument is a tower from which the surrounding battlefield can be viewed....

...Back on the bike in the scorching heat we got to Suippe for a fuel stop, a swim in the town pool and an ice cream or two (Lidl's only sell them in packs of 4)....