A varied day’s cycling to take us across the border: main road to the Maas and then, after the ferry crossing, a green route beside the river and through woods on an old railway line (the Boxteler line) into Germany. Then a main road again for coffee in Goch – which seemed much less middle-class than towns in the Netherlands somehow. Main road again (good for covering the miles) and the Boxteler Bahn and green roads to Xanten.

This time I had just enough time to walk to the market square and admire the cathedral behind and the Gotisches Haus – which apparently re-used tufa blocks from what was left of the nearby Roman town founded by Trajan. That rather pleased me.