We managed to sleep OK with the windows closed to keep out the pong from the surrounding barns. The Gastehaus owner was surprised that we had not had breakfast in his restaurant and in fact had included the extra cost of breakfast on our bill when we went to pay on checking out. We were hoping that after yesterdays ‘Umleitung’s’we might actually be able to drive the route we had come here to do. The weather in the western sky looked a bit threatening although it was still warm. The countryside is very attractive with low rolling hills, villages atop hills here and there, usually with a church at the highest point in the village and of course now a patchwork of green and yellow fields from the maturing summer crops. Zipplingen is located just off
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