Riding our bike from Sourbrodt to the German border on the RAVeL L48 line

We repeated this bikeride from 3 years ago.  3 years ago it was Kabouter breaking his bike record at the age of 5 and this time it was Beertje peddling probably further than he had ever done. 

While I had been working from "home" in the Ardennes on Thursday, Jan had taken the boys on a bike ride to Butgenbach.  The next day, they felt like doing more bike riding and I could join  them.  "To Thomas the train!!" was their request.  That is still the old locomotive wreck that can be spotted near the RAVeL in Sourbrodt not far from the former railroad station.  So that's where we parked and we started riding in the direction of Germany.  The boys did really well so we continued and promised them to get some fries at the border.  They were even more motivated to race the last kms. 

As always in summer, we came across a group of railbikes that run on the old railroad since this part of the RAVeL has been built next to the former railroad and not on top of it.  We had a little cookie snack at the ruin and we crossed the bridge where we often go walking along the border to Schwartzbach. 

The food truck with fries wasn't to be found at the border, but we could eat a waffle at the railbike Leykaul starting point.  With the boys full of sugar again, we returned quite successfully. They raced each other like crazy and had a fatigue dip afterwards. When we told them to simply keep going calmly instead of racing each other, they managed to get back quite well.   Well done for both of them with > 15 kms in their little legs.

Thomas the train

The old locomotive turning point

The young Roer river

waffle break in the old train wagon food truck from Railbike Leykaul