Thanks Scott, I'm now thoroughly settled into a lazy quarantine life. I should finally get around to filling in the empty section with the actual cycling in now!

Whisky is medicine, especially under quarantine. Glad you're home and fattening up.

Welcome home, happy quarantine. Looking forward to filling in a few gaps in the tale.

Thanks Rachael! I've had some last-minute dashes for transport before but this was a but crazy. The tour was pretty varied so hopefully should make for interesting reading!

Thanks Kathleen!

Wow! I’m impressed! Glad you made it safely. I look forward to hearing more about your trip.

Yay! Looking forward to the full report.

Well done! That was quite the odyssey you planned just to get to Munich. Glad it all worked out. Looking forward to reading the whole story.

Cheers!

Cheers Mike! Yeah, I always have an affection for the Nokias, and it seems to be serving me well so far. Decent battery life too! It can be a battle fighting all the pre-installed stuff - but it's much more agreeable when it's gone.

Thanks Kathleen - it's great to know people are reading! I've learnt my lesson from the 5 minute train changes, so hopefully things will be reasonably relaxed! (and I get to visit Venlo, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart again)

Have a great time!

It is so wonderful to have your journal and the Anderson’s journal to read. If we can’t be doing it, we love to be reading about it. Good luck with the five train extravaganza getting to Munich. It is always an adventure hehe.

G'day Jon, the Nokias are good gear and you can get some good prices on them. Our eldest son has used Nokias for years. My flip phone was on a 2G network and not capable of upgrading to 3G when they closed the 2G here. I got a a Samsung mini size about 40% of the now standard screen size. Although the battery was replaceable when it karked I decided to upgrade to a full sized screen so I too got a Nokia mainly so that I could more easily on the larger keyboard reply to text messages people send me despite me continuously telling them that I prefer email. That pesky "assistant" drove me crazy for the first few days until I had an idea and said "uninstall yourself" and there was a clunk and all went quiet but I think that she has snuck back again.
The only "app" that I have permitted to record my whereabouts is RidewithGPS for obvious reasons. Anyway well done on ripping Google out, I am tempted to do likewise. Very recently the battery died on Mary's flip phone and we got her a Nokia on sale at Aldi.
Anyway I look forward to reading about your tour when you return.

Mike

Thanks Scott! I'm hoping I've not overdone it on the climbing, we'll see how it goes - but either way it'll be good scenery. Cheers!