Day 8

What an amazing day Dave had on his 50th birthday. We started the day with a champagne breakfast and then we had a glass blowing demonstration by a 7th generation glass blower from Wertheim.Then we went on a walking tour of the quaint village of Miltenberg.The main street was chock full of cute little half timbered houses.After a carbo loading lunch 6 ANZACs joined a touring group of 21 to bike from Miltenberg to Wertheim- only 31 kms!!Andrea would be very proud of us.. especially me because she knows I hate the bike!!What an amazing afternoon as we followed the river through little towns along a very busy cycle way, only about 1 km on open road. We stopped half way at a beautiful little bier garden for a well earned cold one.We finally arrived at our destination just before the shops shut and had time to visit the glass blowers shop.We then set sail again. Our wonderful new friends had arranged for balloons at our table, kindly blown up by our non cyclist friends, champagne- Moet and Chandon no less.Dave was presented with his own Captains hat- especially good as we always sit at the Capatins table. As dessert was served, the lights went out and everyone started to sing as a beautiful cake with fireworks on top, came out as well as another bottle of Moet. We are so lucky to have met these wonderful people in Paris. When we arrived back in our room the housekeepers had made our towels into a birthday cake with crepe paper ribbons in the colour of the German flag, decorated with chocolates for candles.An wonderful end to an amazing day.