Friedrichshafen πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

Our host is this morning the chief cook and bottle washer. This lovely old Gasthaus has been here for 600 years and his family have run it as a Gasthaus for 400 years. Amazing eh !4 kms up the road we cross in to Germany. The old border post is now a liquor shopThe first town is Lindau. The old town is on an island joined to the mainland by 2 bridges. tourists flood in by ferry and train (and 100s by bike) . Is that an H28 Graeme?Some just hitch there πŸ€—

It wasn’t easy leaving either. We sat here for 10 minutes while 4 trains went pastThe bike trail hugs the coast all the way so far. Occasionally sharing with cars but with well marked lanes for bikes .At Wasserburg we pop into the info centre for some more maps. It’s part of the council building. We have just put a new council building up in Katikati and to give it a more continental feeling I propose we name it The Rathausour favourite lunch on the road is a made up salad from the supermarkets, add to that the copious cherries we get from roadside stalls, and we sound like a couple of drafthorses going up the hills. Not a problem except that with so many cyclists around you need to check behind you .We’re only travelling around 40kms a day now because we don’t want to get to Holland too early. Friedrichshafen was our goal tonight and we arrived here at 2.00pm. There’s some great museums here I want to look through as this was the home of the Zeppelin. There’s a full sized replica that flies tourists around every day and I’m keen to have a look. Count Von Hindenburg himself