September 8, 2024
Isny - Friedrichshafen
It is Susan's birthday! Today is our last day together, we go back to start. It's pretty much downhill all day and we are hoping for dry weather and perhaps a piece of birthday cake along the way. The first eight kilometers we retrace our route from yesterday, today under grey skies.
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I was looking forward to Wangen where Janos and I had stayed on our tour in the Allgäu in 2021. It is a pretty little town in the sun. Today it is a bit dreary and for some reason crowded. We don't even find a cafe for a birthday coffee-and-cake stop. So we soldier on, a bit disgruntled.
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What I didn't realize was that the Bavarian Landesgartenschau/State Garden Show was being held in Wangen. It's a big and popular event and attracts lots of visitors. Blithely following our bicycle route, all of sudden we were standing in front of a fence and locked gate. The grounds were fenced in and cut off our bicycle route. A way around without getting on a road with fast traffic wasn't immediately obvious, but with some fumbling around we got back on track.
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We were now on an uninteresting section of our route - time to show you Susan's birthday present. A pair of pink cycling socks!
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Shortly before we reached Tettnang we had to don our rain gear, it wasn't pouring yet but enough to get wet. I had never been to Tettnang before and didn't know what to expect. It turned out to be a pretty place but we will have to come back another time to appreciate it. A street festival was taking place and in spite of the incipient rain the streets were packed with people enjoying the festivities. We could hardly walk our bikes through the crowded streets. There was street food of all kinds, music, flea markets - the whole town was engaged in the event. We would have loved to park our bikes and join the fun, maybe even find some cake. But it was raining and we still had some kilometers to cover.
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Now we just put our heads down and pedaled. My phone that I use for navigation was dry in a plastic case mounted on my handlebars and we found our way back to the hotel where we started out without incident.
Today's ride: 55 km (34 miles)
Total: 307 km (191 miles)
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