Apologies, yesterdays blog should have been titled Gunzburg to Augsburg. We were cycling south east all day today. It was easy ride out of Augsburg, some times through parks and lots next to the river. It was through more fields of crop, small villages and forests but only a very little gravel today. About ten miles from Munich we cycled a few miles out of our way to visit Dachau Concentration camp. Dachau is synonymous with the Holocaust, as the site of the notorious Dachau concentration camp where over 43,000 people died during the Nazi regime. The KZ- Gedenkstatte Dachau is now a sombre memorial to those victims and the countless others like them. The entrance gate bears the slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei' ' work makes you free 'but hard work did not guarantee survival. It ... read more

Dinkelsbühl was founded on the wool industry but there are no sign of sheep around now. Tony said that they are all kept indoors as this proves easier and more efficient for the farmer. Poor animals. Breakfast didn't start untill eight o'clock so we set the alarm to go down for then only to find they had started serving at seven thirty so some of the group had already dined. After breakfast we finished packing and went down to the bikes to find everyone else had gone except Bob and Dave. Usually we had been told what time to meet at the garage but as the bikes were all outside no key was needed, so no mass gathering at the garage. Oscar had told us where there was a supermarket so we bought yoghurts and sandwiches ... read more

We were down for breakfast at 7.30am, as instructed. There was a superb choice, including gluten free. We were off by 9.00am and there was a lot of flat to start with. We passed through towns with amazing buildings and large arable farms. We also saw more storks and a few cows but hardly any other animals. We had yoghurts and nuts sat under a tree, on a bench, in the middle of huge flat fields. There was only one real climb, up through some forests, and true to form the path was rutted, gravelly and steep. Fortunately at this point there were only the two of us so we didn't have to navigate other riders as well. Once at the top we crossed over the water shed of the Rhine and Danube rivers. We arrived ... read more

Tuesday's blog. We were up a little earlier as we wanted a quicker start to allow plenty of time for the train. Breakfast was in the hotel itself. The hotel was very quirky with lots of religious artefacts around and rather cluttered. It also listed itself as a museum. Breakfast was basic but she surprised me with the gluten free bread. Soon we were off into the sunshine and although we were on the Rhine path the Rhine wasn't particularly visible until very close to Cologne. However, it was pleasant cycling on quiet roads at first and cycle paths later, often on the top of dykes. At one point we saw a huge field of strawberry pickers dashing backwards and forwards with baskets of strawberries. As we got near to Cologne the paths became busier and ... read more

Today was a shorter ride so we had a more leisurely breakfast. There wasn't a great deal of choice at breakfast but the gluten free bread and a boiled egg would keep me going. The first few miles were on the canal again. We stopped to watch a bridge open, and close, for two leisure boats to pass through. We soon left the canal behind for enormous fields of crops, including black currants, carrots and cabbage. There were also huge fields of impressive looking horses and stables. We passed three garden enclosures that had a few fallow deer in them. We have seen this before in Holland and Belgium. I am not sure if they are kept as pets or what? There were even a few dairy cattle scattered around. The first we have seen since ... read more