Another virtually flat ride along the well-kept and well-signposted bike trails of the Rhine/Bodensee Route. At Steckborn I found the hotel we'd stayed in on our Bodensee visit two years ago - the Feldbach See and Park Hotel was a welcome sight back then, after a long day on the bikes, and we were no less happy to see it this time, with temperatures in the high 30s and lunch beckoning. Lunch was wonderful, including a glass of the superb local Müller Thurgau, looking across the Untersee, where the Bodensee narrows towards the river mouth, to Germany. A post-lunch swim set us going again, meandering through vineyards, orchards, market gardens and lakeside villages.
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| Picture perfect Stein am Rhein |
Gorgeous Stein am Rhein was swarming with tourists - we joined them for a well-earned gelato. Then we stayed on the north bank of the river as far as Schaffhausen, cycling through Germany, past hundreds of people playing in their swiftly flowing river - more beaches on the German side than on the Swiss, we noticed.
And finally to our hotel in Schaffhausen, welcome beers in the garden and a delicious riverside dinner.
68km, 1100 calories, 4 hrs 30
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