A Little More Bodensee

We recovered from our bike trip with a stay in Immenstaad am Bodensee at the Heinzler am See hotel. Ahh, sleeping in! Actually, the first day we got up relatively early to catch a ferry to go see the dahlias. There are ferries between many of the towns – it’s a great way to travel! […]

Soooo Many Flowers

If you don’t like dahlias, this is not the post for you! Last Monday we went to the Insel Mainau, an island in Lake Constance (the Bodensee). It’s known as the Blumeninsel – the Flower Island – and it’s not hard to figure out why. 12,000 dahlias in over 250 varieties – wow! – You […]

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 […]