Very cold this morning but dry at least. We crossed the Rhein once again and continued through Germany along our way. The road if anything was hillier than the day before and we began to feel like we were pedalling for ages and making very little progress.
Once again the border changed quite regularly. Which if you are planning on buying things must make for a bit of a headache, as to which currency you need. There are even some border signs and barriers along dirt tracks and through woodland.
After what had felt like an all day climb we came to the outskirts of Scaffhausen and immediately were greeted with a terrific downhill section right down to the Rhein. The only trouble was that the now Swiss cycle signs wanted us to go back up the otherside. We were rapidly running out of gears on the 15% hill, that would take us back to the main route. When the track then turned to gravel and we were greeted with two 20% descents and a fallen tree, we were beginning to wonder if the signs were wrong. The route then took us back over the Rhein, which begs the question why we didn't stay the other side in the first place!
With 20km to go Debbie started getting a lot of knee pain and we rather limped our way past Diessenhofen, which had a lovely wooden bridge across the Rhein. From there on, it was another steep climb and then a descent into the very pretty town of Stein am Rhein. The mural painted buildings are like something out of a fairytale. We crossed the Rhein once again and eventually made it to a very nice camp-site and are currently camped right by the Rhein. If it wasn't about 500m to the showers, it would be even better.
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