We are jumping to our last river of this trip! We’ve gone from Loire to the Saône to the Rhine to now the Danube, using all sorts of canals connecting rivers in France. The Danube is western Europe’s longest river and the second longest river in all of Europe after the Volga in Russia. It will take us all the way to Bratislava!
We left our crowded campsite and headed overland to Tuttlingen, which connected us to the Danube. Today’s trip was the most climbing we’ve done since we left Brittany. The hills are steeper and more obvious as we ride. We climbed about 2100 feet total over 41 miles and got some nice vistas from the top.
We are almost out of fuel for the camp stove, so we stopped at a couple places along the way to see if we could find some. There are 2 types of connectors to stoves and we have the less common type, it seems. We find success in Tuttlingen and head to the campsite. The campsite is amazing in a completely different way than the previous one. It’s a small parcel inside a city park that allows camping, with bathrooms and showers that are be used by the public using the park. Chris feels like she is homeless staying there. ☺️ But it’s free, clean, flat and pretty quiet! The site has all bike tourists, and so it’s pretty chill. There’s not a lot of campsites in this area so this is it for choices tonight. There’s a bar a few steps away to get a drink. The patrons use “our” bathrooms. The shower is locked and so we sponge off in the bathroom. It all works well enough!
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