Pastry ride pointless prize

[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #39. A Saturday morning (3/2) recovery ride. I stopped at Grafs Café across from the U7 Heerstraße end-of-the-line stop for coffee and something that seemed to be an Italian style Pop-Tart. Got caught in the rain, but I was dressed for it.

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[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #40, Halb GrünGürtel. Once again since it was Sunday I was having problems finding somewhere to stop for coffee, especially since half the ride was spent in the Stadtwald. Eventually I found a Erst zum Bäcker in Ried as I was heading home along the Nidda. Enjoyed my coffee and Apfrlplunder.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19737[/ATTACH] This is by the Luderbach ponds (Jacobiweiher) and a exit from the Oberschweinstiege Restaurant & Biergarten parking lot.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19738[/ATTACH] In the Stadtwald along Darmstäder Landstraße crossing Luderbach

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19739[/ATTACH] Glad I wasn’t under that Eiche when those Eisheln fell

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[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #41. RosenMontag Burgholzhausen-Peterweil loop dealing with gusting gale force winds. Fairly early in the ride I stopped at the Bäckerei Gangel in Kalbach for coffee and Florentina.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]19742[/ATTACH] I did not get the worst of the rain, but is sure stung when blown into my face at 30+ mph

[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #42. Mardi Gras, still windy. I road with my New Orleans riding partner out to the Taunus Therme where we enjoyed three hours the warm baths and the Frei Körper Kultur sauna while it rained outside. Why did I wait until the end of this tour to start doing that? No cameras allowed. Afterwards I stopped at the Artotheke near Bornheim for coffee and a pudding cream filled pastry.

[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #43. Ash Wednesday and still windy, but reasonable temperatures and no rain forecast (yeah right!). I decided to get my monthly century in and did a big loop south of Frankfurt. I stopped in Segingenstadt on the Main for my elevenses at the Bauder Café Marktplataz for Kaffee und Schokocroissant.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]19747[/ATTACH] Not a pastry but the “Rosinen Bomber” at the Luftbrückedenkmal (Berlin Airlift Memorial – old Rhein-Main AFB)

[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #44. I went out a little earlier today hoping to get my ride in before the ride, well, I was half lucky. I stopped at Bäcerei Gerd Kroh on Oberdorfelden for a Kirschplunder. While they sold coffee in bags, they didn’t serve coffee. My coffee was at Berkersheimer Lädchen in Berkersheim.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19753[/ATTACH] Forest management near Kilianstädten

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[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #45. And they call the wind Mariah, it’s been blowing for a week here. We had the 10°C/50°F being touted for the DC Rock ‘n Roll Marathon, so I had to ride at least 26.2 miles. I looped through Höchst and up the Liederbach stopping in Unterliederbach at Die Bäckerei Wagner for my coffee and a Schuhsolhe mit Sahne.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]19761[/ATTACH] Looking toward Altkönig and Großer Feldberg from near Oberliedrbach

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19762[/ATTACH] Frankfurt skyline from near Sulzbach

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19763[/ATTACH] Oberursel corner of Herzbergstraße and Liebfrauenstraße, note how the telephone box has been painted to reflect the house behind it.

[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #46. A little less windy this morning, but again with the rain so it was just a short ride. I stopped at Bachbäcker on Grüneburgweg for coffee and butter croissant.

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[ChristoB50]

@consularrider 188431 wrote:

We had the 10°C/50°F being touted for the DC Rock ‘n Roll Marathon, so I had to ride at least 26.2 miles. I looped through Höchst and up the Liederbach stopping in Unterliederbach at Die Bäckerei Wagner for my coffee and a Schuhsolhe mit Sahne.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]19762[/ATTACH] Frankfurt skyline from near Sulzbach

I was born in Frankfurt (US Army base there) — but we were back in the US I think before I turned 1.
Haven’t made it back; someday, I’ll have to go see the land of my birth!

[consularrider]

@ChristoB50 188465 wrote:

I was born in Frankfurt (US Army base there) — but we were back in the US I think before I turned 1.
Haven’t made it back; someday, I’ll have to go see the land of my birth!

Well, they’ve got some photos of famous patients (including Elvis) at was was the hospital where I assume you were born and is now the Consulate General where my wife works.

[secstate]

I spent my 2018 REI dividend today and celebrated my new Wahoo Elemnt Bolt with a pistachio croissant and coffee at Pluma by Bluebird near Union Market. Can’t say the place had any character worth speaking of but the croissant was quite good!

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[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #47. Tuesday Hills ride climbing Großer Feldberg in the Taunus. Of course my camera batteries died when I turned it on at the summit, and I hadn’t brought spares. :rolleyes: Picked up new batteries at REWE in Schmitten and then stopped of coffee and croissant at Bio-Bäckerei Otto Ernst in Neu-Anspach.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]19791[/ATTACH] View back towards Großer Feldberg when leaving Neu-Anspach

[ATTACH=CONFIG]19792[/ATTACH] View towards Wehrheim leaving Neu-Anspach

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[consularrider]

#FS2019pastryride #48. Sometimes a car needs service even if (or especially if) it never gets driven. On my ride home fro the Fiat/Chrysler dealer I stopped in Bockenheim at Bäckerei Burla for a Café Créme (their spelling) and a Buttercroissant, but didn’t have my camera with me.

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Bikedavid has very kindly loaned me his folding bike for a short trip to North Carolina. I rode it to Union Station this morning and treated myself to an almond croissant from Pret a Manger.

It was my first time on such a machine. Even though I had a heavy duffel on my back it rode very well. I also felt more comfortable riding short sidewalk stretches than I would on a full-size bike.

Thanks for keeping me on the board for Team 5 this week, David!

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[bikedavid]

@secstate 188638 wrote:

Bikedavid has very kindly loaned me his folding bike for a short trip to North Carolina. I rode it to Union Station this morning and treated myself to an almond croissant from Pret a Manger.

It was my first time on such a machine. Even though I had a heavy duffel on my back it rode very well. I also felt more comfortable riding short sidewalk stretches than I would on a full-size bike.

Thanks for keeping me on the board for Team 5 this week, David!

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You’re welcome. Nice balancing act there with a croissant on a bike!

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