Day 57 - Nurtingen to Lauffen 104kms

Well rested courtesy of Best Western we were soon racking up the kms on the flat and generally smooth paths. A mistake upon entrance to Wedlingen was nearly Kevs last as he looked for a cycling sign he'd not realised he was not only cycling on the wrong side of the road but cycling directly into the path of a B-Double truck!

The truck's air horn had it's desired effect (as did all the fibre that Kev has been eating on trip)he was not going to make thar mistake again well not at least until the next village where another motorist again reminded Kev of the correct side to be on.

Thus was cycling without too much effort and in the good conditions we'd soon cycled 45 kms averaging 20km HR which for us with all our gear is pretty good!

The industrial scenery of Stuttgart soon passed and the Neckar began to reveal tantalising signs of it's real beauty being framed by valleys and steep vineyards and beaut villages.

Only just over a 100kms from Mannheim and Heidelberg we called it an afternoon at 100+ kms and went in search for accommodation for the night finally settling for a 70s style hotel near
Lauffen's town centre

With KH still suffering the effects of "those" apples dinner was limited to a trip to what we found out was the local organic food store - I think tomorrows breakfast will need to make up
for tonight's missing calories !