Where's Bertie? He's in a small car parking area, alongside a very quiet road, between the Danube and some lakes, just by Donaurieden (exact location: 48.30989, 9.87070)
Weather: Mainly sunny and a bit too hot.
There's even less to report today than normal. After an early run along the river...
A flat track with distance markers every 200m - perfect for some speed intervals
...and a couple of errands in Ulm, I set out a number of options as to where we could go this week. Mick plumped for continuing the Danube theme, so here we are 20km to the SW of Ulm, heading back towards where we left the river to take our detour down to Bad Waldsee 9 days ago.
Very little has been done since we arrived. I've sat in the shade as much as possible and when I lost the shade for an hour or so, I got the bed down and took to lying as still as possible, feeling that I may melt otherwise. A little bit of a snooze may have accidentally occurred.
We have both wandered around the immediate area, although not at the same time, so as to save having to shut Bertie's windows.
It's a really pretty location in which we have found ourselves, and given a temperature a few degrees lower, I would have enjoyed to explore it further.
View from Bertie's front window, across a field of sunflowers to a castle and church on yonder 'hill' (/slightly raised ground)
The nearest lake to where we are parked, about 50m away
About 200m in the other direction is the Danube. You may notice it's much smaller here than in the photos from the last couple of days, taken just 20km down stream. That's because there's a series of control barrages around Ulm that have made the river there artificially large (to my mind, a series of slowly flowing lakes).
Weather: Mainly sunny and a bit too hot.
There's even less to report today than normal. After an early run along the river...
A flat track with distance markers every 200m - perfect for some speed intervals
...and a couple of errands in Ulm, I set out a number of options as to where we could go this week. Mick plumped for continuing the Danube theme, so here we are 20km to the SW of Ulm, heading back towards where we left the river to take our detour down to Bad Waldsee 9 days ago.
Very little has been done since we arrived. I've sat in the shade as much as possible and when I lost the shade for an hour or so, I got the bed down and took to lying as still as possible, feeling that I may melt otherwise. A little bit of a snooze may have accidentally occurred.
We have both wandered around the immediate area, although not at the same time, so as to save having to shut Bertie's windows.
It's a really pretty location in which we have found ourselves, and given a temperature a few degrees lower, I would have enjoyed to explore it further.
View from Bertie's front window, across a field of sunflowers to a castle and church on yonder 'hill' (/slightly raised ground)
The nearest lake to where we are parked, about 50m away
About 200m in the other direction is the Danube. You may notice it's much smaller here than in the photos from the last couple of days, taken just 20km down stream. That's because there's a series of control barrages around Ulm that have made the river there artificially large (to my mind, a series of slowly flowing lakes).
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