Rainy day
- Date
- 2005-06-30 20:56 UTC
- Location
- Weissenburg, Germany
- Mileage
- 293 km
Around 5am Taru woke up to a thunderstorm, by nine (breakfast time) it had calmed to medium rain and after that (while I was desperately trying to send the previous post and an email trough 80% packet loss and pings in the high 9 second class) to medium-light, anyways it was rain-gear time.
Weather conditions led us to decide to use the Autobahn, the scenery and rustic towns of the side-roads are much less appealing when you can hardly see before you and everything is wet, also navigating gets harder when options are hard-to-read map trough plastic cover thingy, or soaked map, so the solution was to get some distance covered for a change.
Somewhere between Zwölnitz (where we stayed the night) and Hof (next bigger city) we stopped at an autohof to dry ourselves and grab some lunch, we ended up spending slightly more time, I read emails and sent the last post, also on IRC I agreed with Torben about meeting him and his wife at their place in Günzburg tomorrow.
We left the autohof and experienced first hand just how local weather can be in the hilly areas, one moment there is heavy rain and thunderstorm, within 30km there's road that hasn't seen rain in at least 20 hours, when we move on the A9 towards Nürenberg the weather improves for good, but since our normal clothes are packet away we decide not to change out of riding gear.
in Hilpoltstein (some 30km south of Nürenberg) we switched to B roads again, following B2 to Weissenburg (Bayern), where we first went out a gasthaus on top a steep hill (naturfreunds or something), but they were fully booked, the owner instructed us to the next place (Brandenburger Hof, 49N01'48.5'', 10E58'47.1'') where double room with bath (a real bath, bliss!) and breakfast was 70EUR, since we 1) needed to dry some gear up 2) were afraid that there would be rain in the night we decided to take it.
After quick showers and checking out the location (and entrance etc fees) of the Neuschwanstein castle (something we definetely are going to check out now that we're in the area we headed for the inner city, Weissenburg is an old city lots of old hansa buildings, multiple churches etc, walking around we ended up next to a greek restaurant Delphi (Auf der Wied 9), even though there were slight communication difficulties at first the food was nothing short of excellent, if you happen to end up here, check the place out.
Tomorrow: Günzburg and Torbens place, hopefully the weather is good so we can enjoy the ride there as well... I also hope Torbens internet woes (today when chatting he kept being disconnected) don't continue as I have plenty of photos to upload for your viewing pleasure.
Update
True to our fears it did rain during the night, and there is light rain still, we'll be riding in rain gear again this day .
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