Day 15- Ehingan to Donauworth- 126 kms

11 Jun

The day started early again with us up at about 5.30 am and on the road by 6.15am

The weather today started out cold (7 degrees) and fog and a bit of rain which became a bit heavier as the morning wore on. After lunch it brightened up a bit and the sun was reasonably strong and the Garmin was recording temps of 30 which seemed to high as the wind was quite cool at times

After about 2 kms, we remembered that we had not returned the hotel key to the right spot so I made a quick return trip to fix the problem

The riding today was through fairly flat farming country with the odd small change in gradient.... apart from the end which I will come to later

The wind was also behind us for most of the way which made for fast riding

Our first stop was after 30 kms at Ulm which is a very impressive town with a lovely old part of the town. The big cathedral apparently had one of the highest spires in the world and is very impressive. We noticed that there was very little traffic and wondered why... the girl at the cafe where would bought breakfast, advised that today was a public holiday in Germany being Pentecost day.... there you go we have the Queens Birthday holiday on the same day as Germany has a break.

After breakfast it was on to the 90 km mark at Wertingan which was a lovely town but better still we found a cafe open so we could have lunch. I had a kiwi fruit sundae and an apple strudel and Chris had a raspberry sundae and an apple strudel. It was yummy and the sugar hit was needed.

After lunch we left at about 1.30 and made our was to the hotel at Donauworth

On the way to Donauworth we saw some guys flying their remote control aeroplanes on a field and we stopped to have a look. These machines move like “stink”( Aussie term for fast) and they are really quite manoeuvrable. The planes being flown including prop planes and jet planes and gliders. It was very interesting talking to the guys whilst they flew their planes.

Riding always throws up some real challenges and getting to the hotel involved climbing some of the steepest roads for the day and after 120 kms the legs are pretty tired. Anyway we made it to the hotel only to find that we had been allocated one room with a double bed.... now Chris and I are great friends but sleeping together is not on our list

Luckily they had another room available with 2 beds so all was well

Whilst all the mucking around was going on regarding the room, we were able to sort out bike cleaning. The bikes were filthy and the chain needed oil after a few big days of riding

I must admit today I am feeling pretty tired after some big days of riding.

Hopefully we can have an early dinner and get to bed

Now for the photos....

An interesting conundrum trying to get a big loader through an intersection near Ulm.... they had to do some minor renovations to the traffic lights to fit through the intersection