Tuesday 1 Juney 2010 Böhringen (near Radolfzell) to Tuttlingen

Tuesday 1 June 2010 Böhringen (near Radolfzell) to Tuttlingen 45km

Yah summer is here except it's 10degC, cloudy and generally very un-summer like.

We left the campground, which wasn't on the EuroVelo 6 path and after looking at a little cycle route brochure we saw a path that would cut off a few km and met up with the cycle path after about 20km so we took it.  We headed off and into a wooded area and came to a fork in the road, naturally I took the wrong fork and we slipped and pushed our way through a muddy little track.  Once we met a dead-end at another lake we back tracked and went the right way.  Zipping through the wood we got onto a traffic free path our little adventure was over and we headed toward then next town.

At Stielingen we bought some bread and then continued onto Eigeltingen and despite thinking we had miles to go before we met the 'real' EuroVelo 6 path, we saw a sign so we shrugged our shoulders and off we went.

A field of poppies

Today saw our biggest ascent, we climbed to 797m but we did it through the most beautiful forest and the gradient wasn't so tough that we suffered, just slowly rode up in first and second gears.  This explains our low daily km but there is also another reason, my knees are a bit sore and the cold weather makes then worse so we called it quits at a little pension (B&B).

In Tuttlingen we went into a restaurant and had a very yummy lunch while we debated if we push on to the next campground (30km).

Tuttlingen is also were we met the Danube River for the first time.  We will be riding downstream until Vienna so theoretically it should be downhill, but I doubt it :)