August 24th Stage 26 Riedlingen to Gunzburg 95 kms
Another fierce storm during the night and
another fairly early start. Before 9 o
clock we had left the cosy campsite in Riedlingen and were heading off across the fields
towards Bechingen, Zell and
Zweifaltendorf where a very obliging landlord in the “Golden Horse”
Gasthaus provided us with my essential early morning coffee.
The excellently signposted route posed no
problems except to give the impression that we were riding further than we
actually were. The endless twists and turns in the well-maintained but
contrived cycle paths began to grow a little tedious (especially as I still
have some two thousand or more kilometres to go) and it was with some
relief and, on my part, not a little
tiredness that we spotted Katherine with lunch at Donaustetten. 11 more
kilometres and we were enjoying the wonderful cycle piste along the riverside
in Ulm, the first major city since Basle. We ducked under the ramparts and paid
our respects to the highest steeple in Christendom before continuing along good
cycle paths and then the long, straight, gravel forest road of the Weissinger
Holzle to Gunzburg. Torrential rain drove us into a small hotel on the very
handsome Markt Platz.
95 kms
Total since Schaffhausen 230 kms.
Total since Galway 213
It
was good to be packed up and on our way but the tents were saturated so when
the lunch meeting place was reached, a bridge over the Danube by Donaustetten
(what would I do without bridges to use as marker points?) Magali and I got
them out and spent an hour acting as a human clothes- line. The breeze filled
the fly sheets so that at times we felt we were flying kites, lots of hilarity
and amusement both for us and passing cyclists, canoeists and hikers. Thank goodness though for a dry night last
night, everything recharged, no pounding rain could be heard and the chance to
get on the internet and post the first 3 blogs. Katherine
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