My initial plan was to take the GPS fastest route, which involved maybe 3.5 hours of motorway. However, when we took the no motorways option, it was only 5.5 and looked much more interesting. What a good plan!! You see that the route pretty much drills across Bavaria and then past the Vosges.
And what a lovely day for a ride - sunny, clear, fresh, possibly a bit too windy sometimes but hey, we'll take that over rain anytime!
The first bit was over the rolling lowlands of Bavaria, great bends, little traffic and easily passed if a slow truck or whatever. Villages every 5km or so, so be careful with the limits, people live here you know!
We did have a hard time finding lunch, every place that Jim's magic box turned up was shut. So we pulled into a Lidl, selected some choice comestibles (in truth, Parma ham, salami, Gorgonzola and a baguette), and stopped at a roadside spot. By now, we were in the Schwartzwald, rolling bends, and steep wooded hills.
You can just make out Jim down by the stream...
Looking back up the stream, the sound was a wonderful accompaniment to lunch.
And then to cap it all, we turned onto the B500, rated one of the top 10 biking roads on the world... Wow. We didn't do all of it, but it's pretty amazing, up, down and lots of sideways. What a fluke!
And now we're in Hoerdt, just across the border in France, having passed the guys in khaki with the SLRs and other security type chaps. It's a BnB, beautifully done, and they're doing dinner... More news to come. After we've finished petting the beagle, anyway.
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