Salzburg to Calais throughnal
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Unbeknown to us a few years ago before we could afford E bikes we had an electric fold up tandem. Brilliant in thought process but absolutely useless if you wanted to cycle up the river bed of the Danube.
Guess what we did ! So we bought E bikes especially for this purpose.
There is this...
We did the Rhine Falls and 3-4 KMs up river is this town.
Had never even heard of it before but we popped in and found a dedicated motorbike park next to the museum with a free family day and picturesque restaurant.
Wondered the pretty streets and then saw a map.
Lo and behold they had a...
Have been meaning to do this for some time and from our base at Geisingen (separate entry tomorrow as the aire is a corker) I thought I had found a way to get there on the motorbike without having the hassle of a vignette.....wrong.
The road from blamburg goes through German then Swiss border...
A large lake with camping around it and an Aire that apparently we looked at either last year or the year before. I don't remember but I have it on excellent authority that I am losing my marbles.
Paying for parking everywhere around here but make your own entry to the lake as you spot a few...
Many people have been here before us and raved about it and many people will rave about it after us.
Unfortunately it is not for us. We loved the amazing cuckoo clock shops up to 8 grand a piece and worth every centime. I was prevented from being tempted in the 80 to 300 euro category. Really...
We had no knowledge of what this was, and to be fair we still don't.
Do you ever get the urge to follow a brown sign just because. We did today. Not sure if it was the right thing to do or just the wrong day because numerous other people were in the full car park.
Our literal translation (to...
Another corker of a town, not quite up to Meersburg standard but really not far behind it at all.
We were lucky enough to go into the church for a full orchestra practising with an an incredible (to us) soprano for their debut performance tomorrow. Sat there for a good 20 minutes not...
Why oh why hasn't someone kicked me up the butt and told me to come here before.
What an absolute corker of a town
We stopped in dedicated motorbike parking outside of the town next to the Edeka where lunch was later purchased. We only stopped there because we needed to check the map to see...
Stellplatz with room for about 15. Stayed here 3 nights at 18 euros a night before leccy and/or shower.
It's on a fruit farm but the shop is on the 30 which takes you to Ulm about 100 KMs away or Friedrichschafen about 7 flat KMs on a separated cycle route and passed a kebab house of good...
From our base near friedrichschafen it was counter clockwise for any Americans reading and anti clockwise that learnt English proper for us today.
The cunning plan was to just stop at places that looked interesting
We did try stopping at a place beginning with an I about 4 KMs short of here...
You can catch a cable car up to a viewing platform at 1024 m for the princely sum of 30 euros each, or you can cycle up there (yeah) or take your vehicle. A bus runs up there and there is ample parking which you are supposed to pay for. No overnighting signs are present for motorhomes. No...
We did some mhf word searching on this place prior to going and although only a few people have been 3 in particular blew it's trumpet ..... And rightly so.
First up is the opera in the middle of the lake. Opera is not my thing and neither are concerts but I would pay to watch this. The set is...
We knew we would be aiming here but I wasn't expecting it to be an island.
I had noticed an island on the map and thought we would go take a look. It was only when we got there that realisation that we should follow signs for Lindau Insel.
This then takes you over one of the 2 bridges and we...
We were off on our motorbike today trying to follow the lake round clockwise from Friedrichschafen and this was the first place that took our eye.
Pleasant local market saw us purchase a couple of jars of honey at 6 euros each which is very cheap for proper honey and he threw a couple of sweets...
We have come to a stell about 7 KMs up the 30 road from Friedrichschafen advertised at 15 euros but in reality 18 this year but it suits our needs for 3 nights.
We couldn't decision make til we knew the situation with the bike and this ticked the box and a journal entry of its own will be...
A fair to medium bit off the Alpenstraße so haven't added it to the title.
We came here purely because we couldn't believe the prices of Aires in Fussen where we have been before and Garmisch but we needed a larger town to get the Suzuki address up and running (legally ish as still no UK plate...
The 2 lake photos of Schliersee at the start are the ones of the lake.
On the eastern shore there is plenty of parking running up the coast and wide enough for some tactical 7m motorhome parking.
It was about the only free parking available anywhere all day and has become a theme that had peed...
We started our day off badly as we went in search of a motorbike shop in Traunstein only to discover it is in tiny residential streets and is actually an E bikes shop.
Armed with that we decided to crack on with the Alpenstraße.
We used the motorway in order to get us to a horizontal wiggly...
We turned up at the reservoir end thinking it looked as if we had been here.
We know we used to be tighter than we are now so made a presumption we would never have paid the toll route but the further we went along the more we know we did. It was 12 euros for a motorhome and the other price was...
A very very flat stage of the Alpenstraße from Ruhpolding down to rip Van winkle as we call it.
It was 22 KMs long and we decided not to mention that we didn't bring our E bikes. We followed the E bikes path and saw how shady it was, how they passed the lakes and followed the beautiful river...
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