Good start to the day. The other camper at the camp site (also on a bike heading to Bodensee) had a problem where he couldn’t get his derailleur to shift to the largest cog, which I was able to fix for him. I’m sure he found this beneficial as the day went on and the hills got steeper!
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After rolls with banana in my tent for breakfast, I stopped off at 11 for breakfast at what looked like a monasterial cloister. Everyone was drinking large beers, but 11 is too early for me, so I went for a pretzel and latte. The two don’t go. Lesson learnt. Should have had a cake or a beer.
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Another day with great scenery. Keeping the mountains to my left there were a lot of hills still.
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I’d been recommended to try ‘haxe’ – a crisped pork knuckle – when in Bavaria and found my opportunity.
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Mixed-bag of terrain today. A lot of chunky gravel that I wouldn’t attempt on a road bike and a couple of river crossings. Brompton coping admirably.
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At one point my route took me to a closed gate and a crowd of cows looking like they wanted to escape. I had to lift my bike over the fence – no mean feat, it weighs about as much as one of the cows!
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Nice weather when I was out today, but that was to change later.
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There was a camp site on the route itself so I headed there. Very large camp site with two restaurants. Other camper there was doing the Southern Germany route heading East and warned me of some big hills to come tomorrow.
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As I was putting my tent up it started to rain. I went for a shower and when I came out of the shower block it was pouring with rain. I ran to my tent (a 2 minute run past all the caravans) and dived in.
It didn’t sound like it was going to stop any time soon, so I got out my stove and made 5 minute bolognase inside the tent.
A while later it did stop raining so I went over to the bar (the one that didn’t have a Bavarian oompa band) for a glass of red wine.
When I left it was torrential again. Another run to the tent, into less wet clothes and to bed!
Bad Tölz to Bannwaldsee, 88 km. Total so far = 1,775 km.