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At Rinau south of Strasbourg I crossed over the river Rhein by ferry to Ettenhein and into the Baden area of Germany after having spent the morning riding on open traffic free roads. Later I was to loose an hour due to a wrong turn, the compensation was that I rode a lovely twisty road that climbed and dropped through wooded landscape before realizing I was going in the wrong direction and then had to ride it all over again, O’ what a shame. The remainder of the day was slower due to the hilly terrain, bikers out for the day in force and tourist traffic, road works and more navigational errors. I rode until 7.15pm to make up for lost time, making very good progress during the last hour after clearing Reutlingen on what by then were traffic free roads stopping for the night in Blaustein 5klm west of Ulm at the Gasthof Lindenmeir in which I had a whole apartment to myself for the night together with a very nice meal in the restaurant below retiring at 10pm as my eyes were starting to give out. (304 mile) Before leaving home I had been advised that due to the flooding in the Austrian Tirol area during the previous weeks it would be better to stay traveling within Germany before crossing over into Austria just short of Vienna, and heading south to where my friends live. Saturday 27 August. I pulled out at 9am heading to Inglostadt north of Munchen, at Abensberg I turned south onto minor roads and the border via Landshut and Vilbiburg turning east at Neuoffing before crossing over into Austria at Simbach. Onwards east to Wells, Amstetten, turning southeast at Sankt Polten and headed for Pottenstein, up and over the Hohen Wald, by now the day’s light was starting to recede. It was then that I realized that the detailed local Gasthof Lindenmeir map Peter had given the last time I had
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