5 Rivers Tour: Day 2 - Eisbach

As a true Munich child, when I think of Eisbach, I naturally think of the surfers at the Haus der Kunst, THE Eisbach. But there is also a stream of the same name in northeastern Palatinate, which is even 38 km long, springs from Ramsen and flows into the Rhine at Worms.

Today, this stream lives up to its name. After the starry night, everything is still frozen solid as I start cycling at 8:30 a.m. I follow the Barbarossa cycle path, which runs more or less directly along the Eisbach in this section. The Eiswoog - the dammed lake of the Eisbach - is partially frozen.

After the Eiswoog comes the ascent that my route app warned me about: almost 200 meters of altitude gain, but not steep, rather comfortable on a forest path through the forest, which is also used by long-distance hiking trails E5 and E6 on this section. Luckily, it has frozen, otherwise the ground would be quite muddy in places.

It is not far to Kaiserslautern. Due to the cold, I choose a restaurant with a conservatory for lunch directly on the university campus. There, I can sit in the sun behind the glass and enjoy my cappuccino and a hot onion soup, charge my cell phone, and even keep an eye on my bike with the panniers outside.

The second section of today's stage does not follow one of the many, many cycle paths that exist in Germany nowadays. However, the state roads almost consistently have a foot and cycle path in one of the two directions, so you don't have to constantly be afraid of being run over by the next truck - or by a young car driver who either overlooked me shortly after Kaiserslautern or deliberately cut me off and gave me a big scare.

I continue to pass through the towns of Landstuhl and Hauptstuhl and decide in the end to take the slightly longer but less steep route via Homburg to Kirrberg.

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