The night time temperature has really dropped and we dragged our heels a little getting up this morning. Nevertheless we were back on the road reasonably early on a sunny but chilly morning. Fortunately the local shop was open so we could buy a baguette for lunch and some pastries, as we had rather miscalculated our food rations. Sunday is not the best time to run out of food in continental Europe!
Quickly finding our way out of Strasbourg, we picked up the cycle route which followed the 'Canal du Rhone au Rhin' for almost 30kms dead straight. Apart form the odd climb up where the lock gates were positioned, the route was easy and we made very good time.
At Boofzheim we turned towards the Rhein and following the D468, we made it to Diebolshiem where we planned to cross over into Germany. The route took us past a large hydro electricity generating factory, over the Grand Canal d'Alsace and finally along some national park land before crossing the Rhein.
It was over the last crossing that we had the slightly bizarre encounter of a bar, craft fair, and western costume clad German buskers singing English folk, and country and western songs. Very strange, still it made a nice spot for lunch!
From there on in it was a relatively straight forward ride along the flood embankment, which being gravel rather sapped the strength from our legs.
Briesach itself looks like an interesting town but we have very little time as we are due in Switzerland tomorrow. The camp-site is quite nice, although for the first time in our trip nobody here speaks any English. Oh well we still managed to order a beer!
The night time temperature is very cold again so off to bed soon, until tomorrow auf wiedersein.
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