Friday - Davos to Obernai

Today we started to track back north. The official route should have included a run through Lichtenstein but the weather forecast for that part of Switzerland and into Germany was.quite heavy rain. Kevin suggested we take the Motorway North West around Zurich via Motorway and rejoin the route on to the B500 Black Forest.

This is what we did, as it turns out while at a coffee stop and refuel the rain started to come down heavy. I changed in to my rain gear at the services , and I'm glad I did as it came down heavy for a good few miles. I was following Steve, as he had the detour route loaded in his Garmin, and Steve insisted on singing to me over the intercom. How wonderful. Just south of Zurich just as we finished at a coffee stop it started to rain harder. It was here we learned from the newspaper the sad news that Burt Reynolds:'ist tot'. The shock of which caused me to drop my coffee cup, and Steve to start laughing uncontrollably at the sight of this pristine Swiss motorway services quickly resemble that of a services on the M6.

RIP: Burt Reynolds (AKA 'Bandit')

At the services we put on our waterproof over gear, to protect us from more coffee spillage the first time this tour, and removed them a short time later when any fear of rain or hilarity had subsided. Glad we did though as we would have been soaked !

We crossed the Lower Rhine at Kaisersthul so now across the border into Germany.

We stopped at the first waypoint of the official route one the B500 at the Brewery. Couldn't resist this wonderful Pork knuckle in gravy with excellent crackling to set us up for the famous bikers road we would ride after. Quite a bit of traffic but once around it we had some fun, a mix of cloudy and sunny as we pressed riding into the he headwind on through Titisee and on to Triberg.

While riding through one of the small towns myself and Steve separated as he stopped for a drink behind and I didn't get the message. So I continued along the route passing some amazing scenery including this castle on the hill.

Some time later I received a phone call from Steve while riding asking me if I'd crossed the Rhine on the ferry. He said he was just boarding the ferry now. I said I hadn't and couldn't tell how far away I was from it, but as it turned out I was only 2 KM away, Steve's GPS had taken him via a motorway so he'd leap-frogged me. I arrived to watch his ferry depart and waved at him to see me and wait on the other side to no avail, as he sailed over oblivious. I then waited for the ferry to return and crossed later. Really enjoyed taking a break as the 5 minute crossing took me and local GS rider across the upper Rhine. It turned out later not everyone had used the ferry crossing as was expected on the route.

Three 'Boxers' on the ferry !

After the crossing now I wasn't far away from our night stay in Obernai. Really pretty town in the Alsace region.

All parked up outside our wonderful Hotel d la Cour Alsace.



Later, off out to sample some of the local delights we came across a very good restaurant. Good to be out of Swiss prices too at last. Beers etc half the price. Superb days riding, and good weather, food and company.

Tomorrow we track further North back through the Vosges again to Reims