June 3rd Rheinfelden to Basle 19 kms
Unfortunately, though, mission wasn’t quite accomplished,
because there was the small matter of those 24 kms, which in fact turned out to
be only 19, from the day before yesterday. If I was already feeling that sense
of anti climax which, in my experience always accompanies the achieving of an
objective, this short ride into the city of Basle exacerbated it.
Driving back home from Schaffhausen, Katherine dropped me at
Rheinfelden railway station, just opposite the Shultzen Hotel, in a miserable
drizzle to make up the missed distance. It was an uninspiring, and thankfully
short ride, luckily on a Sunday morning with little traffic, but past factory
after factory obscuring the view of the Rhine on one side and of the low,
pleasantly wooded hills on the other. I
was very relieved to meet up again with Katherine at Basle Hauptbahnhof, simply
pleased that I could now, hand on heart, say that I had cycled every centimetre
of the 1906 kilometres between Nimmo’s Quay in Galway and the Rheinfallen in
Schaffhausen. I can’t wait now to jump back on the bike and nip over the hill from Schaffhausen to
Donauschingen and cycle on to the Black Sea.
Total 19 kms Total
since Galway 1906 kms
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