Biking the Bodensee Part 3

The interesting public art kept coming. Not really sure what the inspiration for this fountain in Friedrichshafen was – steam punk? shipwrecks? – but it’s cool! I wished I could fit some of the garden ornaments in my luggage… From Friedrichshafen we biked to Lindau, which has a very scenic old town and harbor. We […]

Biking the Bodensee, Part 2

We left Schaffhausen by boat, a two-hour trip back to Stein am Rhein. The Rhine has a pretty strong current – I’d guess two to three knots. So we were surprised to see, along with half-timbered houses, modern homes with big balconies, and lots of waterfowl, these water creatures: The river was not very wide […]

Biking the Bodensee, Part 1

We started our bike trip around Lake Constance (the Bodensee in German) in Konstanz (Constance) at the Hotel Halm. The hotel restaurant where we had breakfast had a Moroccan theme with incredibly ornate decoration. How long did it take to create this?!? Our route is shown below. Our first day took us to the small […]

2 Bikes, 2 Valleys

We’re in the midst of our around-Lake-Constance bike trip, but today’s post is a quick one about our first short bike trip in Oberstdorf. We rented two e-bikes for a day and used those awesome batteries to bike up two valleys, the Trettachtal and the Oytal. Here are some of the views along the way. […]