We said our farewell to Julia’s family on Sunday. We had a relaxing breakfast in Nierstein center. It’s a beautiful village with pastel painted homes and narrow streets. They hope to have Matt and Liz visit someday.
We took the train to Basel but did not have reserved seats. I thought we were going to have to stand for the whole 3.5 hour ride but we eventualy got seats once some of the reserved seat rider got off at their stops. We then got off at Basel Bad which was in Germany instead of Basel SBB which would have been the next stop after crossing the river into Switzerland. After a little confusion, we took Bus 30 to Basel SBB and called it a day after a quiet dinner.
Today we met the group of backroads riders who will be with us for this week. We did a 14 mile ride (alot of downhill) in the Black Forest of Germany and then stopped for lunch. There was a cool bike rack (see below) that they made with old grape vines. Those Germans are so clever (no surprise as they did invent the Sham Wow!)
We finished with an easy 24 mile ride to the ship in Basel, Switzerland. The hardest part of riding is trying to follow our route on their Garmin GPS. At one point both our GPS had different instructions (ugh).
wow! Even the bike racks are wine related.