Saturday 4th October 2014 - The great thing about camping is you can hear the clocks chime and the bells on the hour. Even if its a bit of a distance away. Nearly every village or town has a chiming clock tower. Woke up this morning to six bells.
Lay and dozed on and off, listened to the birds and then some music for a bit. At eleven bells I got up and went for a shower.
Think I finally left about 1pm then foot down and blasted out a fast 20km to Rhine Falls. Stopped in the village just before it and got an egg, ham and pickle sandwich, some kinder bars and peanuts.
Up to Rhine Falls, Europe's largest plain water waterfalls. Tourists everywhere, coaches full of them. Milling about and taking photos. Think you had to pay to go on the observatory deck, so I parked the bike and walked down the path to the railway line bridge that you could walk along on both sides.
Looked, saw, photographed and left. Too many people.
Was going to by pass Stein am Rhein, as again there were bus loads of tourists. Headed along the road around the town, it cut past the other end of the main street, so I went for a nosey.
Lovely old mediaeval town, a lot of the buildings also had paintings on their walls. Cafes with their table and chairs along each side. Nice place, glad I stopped to see it.
Into Konstanz now, its on the shore of Lake Constance. Amazingly great cycle paths into the city, apparently as there are so few car parking places about the town, most people cycle everywhere.
Had seen a hostel the other day, closest to where I'd be coming in from, so headed there, getting dark now.
Cycled past and it looked like a motorbike shop, with lots of motorbikes parked outside in the yard. Checked map, definitely it.
So rolled down in and found the door hidden behind some wooden paneling. No lights on. Rang the buzzer. A man answered, didn't speak English. Said there was no room available. Odd place.
Look for next one, guess where it is, beside McDonald's haha!!
They have room and a bed in a dorm for €29. Aqua hostel it was called. Thought it was quite expensive for a hostel, but there were towels, shampoo, handwash and a hair dryer. Really nice clean place.
Went down to the restaurant, which was nicely decorated with a sea theme. Sat beside the fish tank. Got a fab meal of roast beef, gravy, onions, homemade pasta and beer. It was delicious!
Bit of craic on WhatsApp with a few drunkards back home, being a Saturday night.
Up to room, comfy bed. Only myself and two others in the 8 bed dorm. They were a couple from Stuttgart, who trained it here with their bicycles just for the weekend.
Someone comes in about midnight. Lights on rustles around for a while, then lights off.
Not even an hour later that person is having a wonderful sleep. Gold medal in snoring, so flipping loud, interspersed with gurgling and sighing and farting.
All night.
Earphones out for some music.
Day 36 - 04.10.14
Flaach, Switzerland to Konstanz, Germany
1pm to 8pm
3hr 58min cycling
74.3km
2112 calories
718 metres asc
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