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!
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.
Another day with great scenery. Keeping the mountains to my left there were a lot of hills still.
I’d been recommended to try ‘haxe’ – a crisped pork knuckle – when in Bavaria and found my opportunity.
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.
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!
Nice weather when I was out today, but that was to change later.
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.
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.