We woke up hardly energised for a ride around the block let alone for anything of length after a very warm night and no air con
KH plowed into his first true continental breakfast finding out that with the combo of cereals meat cheese and break you could have breakfast and lunch at the same time !
It was hot again by the time we heaeded off and in a first on trip we werw lost even before we started trying to work our way out of town!
On track again we were soon hurtling through forests and fields on amazing cycle paths and roads so good in fact that freewheeling became the norm
The heat and the fact that my panniers had come off the pannier rack abiut 10 times in thd first 10kms caused me to have a melt down - the sight of a grown man standing over his bike pummelling and kicking his pannier bags drew some concerned looks from passing motorists - KH saved the day by purchasing extra bungy chords and giving me a yellow card for excessive violence to an inanimate object!
Some ice cream in beautiful Neuburen soon settled me down as we stopped to top up our dangerously low water supplies - we seemed to be going through our supplies so quickly in the hot conditions - the challenge we've found in buying water though is trying to avoid the fizzy mineral water that Europeans seem to prefer as it tastes like salt!
A steep descent near Sonnermouth had us both hurtling through a give way but to
me at least it cleared what the German bike mechanic had said yesterday about having 100kms left in something ..... my bloody brake pads !!!
KH who quoted that he loves the heat and doesn't need to put on much sunscreen coz he doesn't burn fell into our hotel room in Marbach knackered and looking like a beetroot on heat!
Our dinner at nearby Fischbachau confirmed how dehydrated we both were when we ordered 2 x 1/2 litres of diet coke each!
Some great scenery again in this lovely place - some cooler conditions though are badly needed!
few was little sleep overnight witthe warm conditions and the absence or any room cooling or air circulation
8,000 Km's in 3 months cycling across UK and Europe ! In July the Tibetan hardened duo ride from Lands End on this "boys own" epic. After cycling UK's best Kev & Mike go on to Europe to cycle from Berchtesgaden (Bavaria) to Amboise in France meeting fellow Warby's Viv & Linton and Mike's sister Kim for an incredible Journey to Barcelona. The epic ends with a spectacular climb over the Alps and a cycle through Switzerland and along the fabulous Rhine!
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