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Friday, and the weather appears to be improving, so we are able to cycle along the cycle track by lakeside into St Gilgen.
St Gilgen turns out to be a picture postcard Austrian Village, very pretty, in fact, on our way there we almost cycle through a filmset by the lake, where they are making a scene from some TV program we will obviously never see, since it is in Austrian!
We have lunch, and sit by the lake in the sun, just enjoying the scenery, and of course, indulge in the hunt for a church, on the assumption we will be here on Sunday.
But, Saturday arrives, and it is dull and raining heavily, this place is really just like the English Lake District!
Beautiful although it is, we decide, if it is raining, we may as well be driving, we head west toward Germany, having decided we will stay at Ubersee (where we stayed on our way East.
Sunday and the sun is shinning, that is better!.
Kathleen peddles off to church, while I laze in the sun.
We meet for coffee and cake at a little cafe in the town, after church. An odd conversation ensues, I think the owner of the cafe must be Italian rather than German, but a mixture of Kathleen's German, and some pidgeon Italian, with much gesturing gets us the coffee and cake we want.
Having stuffed ourselves with cake, good intentions dictate that we must work it off, so we cycle around the countryside,
with of course a "radler stop"
If we are going to come to Germany again, I need to improve my German at least to the mediocre level of my French, at least I can do the essentials, ie order drinks in French!
The end of another great day.
Monday, we cycle to the nearby Cheimsee, my original intention was to cycle all of the way around the lake, but, in reality it turned out to be much bigger than I thought!
So, we settle for doing a small part of it, and very attractive it is too.
Tomorrow, we will be heading toward the Bordensee, but, this stelplatz is a little find, we would definately use this again.
The plan is to stop at a site just east of Strasbourg, in Germany.
Getting around Strasbourg turns out to be more difficult than we thought, we have to exit the Motorway and head for a place called Offenburg.
The trusty TomTom instructs us to exit the motorway, onto an exit slip, which then splits into four different options, none of them signposted Offenburg. Needless to say, we get it wrong, the satnav patiently leads us round in a circle to rejoin the motorway, back to have another shot, wrong!
It is not the TomTom’s patience which is stretched now, but, round we go again, third time lucky and soon we are in Germany.
Despite the trials of the Satnav, we have made good time, it is still grey and cloudy, so we decide it is a good day for travelling.
We reset the satnav for a site much further into Germany. But, the tone has been set, Tomtom is in the bad books, Kathleen questions why it has planned a route, which, at first sight does look a little strange. We need to go, more or less due east, but, the planned route takes us north east, then south west. It does look a bit less than direct.
The satnav is duly ignored, and we follow Kathleen’s more direct route.
We soon find out why the satnav did not choose this route, we are crossing a mountain. I swear we passed a few guys in turbans leading Elephants it was that high.
We arrive at Sonnen/Erpfingen, Azur Rosencamp (N48 21’47” E9 11’0”). Not one of our better choices. The sentiment is not helped by the chap in reception who upsets Kathleen by insisting on seeing our passports before he will check us in.
Kathleen spends the evening quotes sections from Fawlty Towers, "don't mention the war".
Only one night here.
We take advantage of the free German motorways to eat some miles, east towards Munich, which we pass around on the north side, then South and East again.
Just before we arrive at our stop for the night, we are greeted with this sight, has there been a natural disaster we wonder, a flood, a hurricane?
No, it is the aftermath of a pop festival!, it goes to show, Germans can be untidy too!
We find this very pleasant Stellplatz, just off the motorway at Ubersee-Almau (N47 48’35” E12 29’33”). 11Euro, Electricity, Toilets, Showers, and ten minutes walk to the village, excellent.
It is sort of in the grounds of a working farm, which can be seen in the
We walk into the village and enjoy a meal and or course a bottle of wine.
