Where's Bertie? He's in a walkers' car park at the village hall at Bachheim (exact location: 47.85634, 8.40763).
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine for most of the day, gradually clouding over this afternoon.
This morning we answered the question I posed at the end of yesterday's post. The street art had not been scrubbed off the roads overnight, but it was gradually being worn away by the passage of tyres on the reopened road:
Almost all other evidence of the festival (the stage, the mobile bars, the food stands, the portacabins full of public toilets) had disappeared overnight. I had to wonder what we would have made of the street covered in art had we not arrived in the town until this morning, oblivious to what had gone on over the weekend.
There had been queues yesterday to view the 3D works, but today we were able to play around and pose without holding anyone else up.
It was gone noon by the time we finally left town, via a couple of supermarkets...
A display of sock yarn in an ordinary supermarket!
...having decided, after even more dithering on the subject, to head for Bachheim, taking a little bit of a punt that it would be a good place: a) for a walk; and b) for overnight.
We've managed to find ourselves a not-too-slopey space in the car park (finding a space was not difficult; once the walkers had gone home we had a choice of all bar one of the 60-odd here - the slope was more of an issue), and had a surprisingly nice walk too (advertised as 8km, actually 6.5km). I'm not sure whether there's a saturation of nice walks in this region, or whether we just keep randomly hitting the good ones.
Bachheim is, incidentally, to the NW of Blumberg (which we departed this morning) and SW of Donaueschingen (where we left 2 weeks ago today). Thus, if you were to plot our journey of the last two weeks, it might look as if we are driving in decreasing circles. We shall go against that appearance when we leave here, as our next destination is Donaueschingen, with the intention of staying there until after England has played its next match on Wednesday evening. Unusual, I know! It's only Monday and we know where we are going to be on Wednesday!
Weather: Wall-to-wall sunshine for most of the day, gradually clouding over this afternoon.
This morning we answered the question I posed at the end of yesterday's post. The street art had not been scrubbed off the roads overnight, but it was gradually being worn away by the passage of tyres on the reopened road:
Almost all other evidence of the festival (the stage, the mobile bars, the food stands, the portacabins full of public toilets) had disappeared overnight. I had to wonder what we would have made of the street covered in art had we not arrived in the town until this morning, oblivious to what had gone on over the weekend.
There had been queues yesterday to view the 3D works, but today we were able to play around and pose without holding anyone else up.
It was gone noon by the time we finally left town, via a couple of supermarkets...
A display of sock yarn in an ordinary supermarket!
...having decided, after even more dithering on the subject, to head for Bachheim, taking a little bit of a punt that it would be a good place: a) for a walk; and b) for overnight.
We've managed to find ourselves a not-too-slopey space in the car park (finding a space was not difficult; once the walkers had gone home we had a choice of all bar one of the 60-odd here - the slope was more of an issue), and had a surprisingly nice walk too (advertised as 8km, actually 6.5km). I'm not sure whether there's a saturation of nice walks in this region, or whether we just keep randomly hitting the good ones.
Bachheim is, incidentally, to the NW of Blumberg (which we departed this morning) and SW of Donaueschingen (where we left 2 weeks ago today). Thus, if you were to plot our journey of the last two weeks, it might look as if we are driving in decreasing circles. We shall go against that appearance when we leave here, as our next destination is Donaueschingen, with the intention of staying there until after England has played its next match on Wednesday evening. Unusual, I know! It's only Monday and we know where we are going to be on Wednesday!
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