Went over 1000 km
Camp was great…clean and quiet. Got up to 48 deg cool weather again. I wonder when summer arrives. Today we did an excursion off the more industrial part of the Danube and up the Altmuhl River Valley, a tributary. This was a great ride through canyons and castles on cliffs overlooking the towns.
The high point was riding into Eichstatt, a large medieval university town that had a weekend renaissance festival underway to celebrate their 1000 years of existence. The town center was roped off and town’s people dressed up in period costumes to perform and demonstrate their crafts. My biking group had the obligatory stein of beer. I visited with the local Viking, Thor, who proceeded to teach me about axe throwing…I hit 3/6 targets. He gave me a lucky stone to keep me safe on the remainder of the journey. As bunch of bikers on their way to Istanbul, we got a lot of looks and questions from the locals.
We had another great camp and had time to climb up a steep cliff to visit a castle and museum of the Roman Limes Wall, which was built in 300 AD and went across Europe to keep out the Barbarians. It evolved into a smaller version of the Great Wall of China, but must not have worked since the Barbarians settled into Bavaria. I got to dress up in the linked armour suit, with Terry and Clare…it was really heavy. I would have been wielding a really slow sword. There is a lot of history in these parts.
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