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We didn’t have such a great night’s sleep as it was so hot. The fan had a 2 hour timer and switched off after that; I woke up twice and switched it back on, and Klaus did it once in the night too. I woke at 5am as an alarm went off, a kind of… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 13: Viernheim to Bacharach

We were so tired last night that we went to bed at 8:30pm. Our cunning plan to leave really early this morning was foiled by the fact we woke up first at 6:30am. More than nine hours’ sleep each was very refreshing! Despite waking a bit later than planned, we were still ready to head… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 12: Gündelbach to Viernheim

Our plan was to leave early this morning to try to beat the worst of the hot weather, and this was pretty successful as we breakfasted at 06:30 and were out of the door by 07:10. However we had the traditional 10 minutes’ explanation about velomobiles to some of the other hotel guests who were… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 11: Eislingen to Gündelbach

Monday morning, but today I didn’t have to get up at 5:30am to go to work… but I got up at 5:30am so we could get on the road early. We were ready to leave by 7am and as the Ferienwohnung didn’t offer breakfast we knew we would just pick something up on the way.… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 10: Bad Buchau to Eislingen

Our Sunday morning started in a very relaxed manner, with breakfast on the balcony. Last night we had bats whizzing around whilst we sat on the balcony which was lovely. Tim suggested we left all the washing up and clearing up for him to do later, which was very kind! We aren’t very good guests… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 9: Tettnang to Bad Buchau

After a good night’s sleep, it was time for the household of velomobilists (6 of us) to have breakfast, and once again Anna had prepared a great spread! Before setting off we did a few bits of bike maintenance. I pumped up Millie’s tyres (as I had guessed, they had reduced from 110psi to about… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 8: Konstanz to Tettnang

We have been on tour for nearly a week now! And today we reached Bodensee, the official goal of our tour! Here is our track for today. We enjoyed a full breakfast with Jos and Marian. We are very grateful for their hospitality and hope we can return it some day. We then set off… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 7: Koblenz (CH) to Konstanz

Despite having been on tour for nearly a week, my sleeping schedule has not changed so I still am ready for bed at 9pm and wake up at 5:30am. Today when I looked out of the window horribly early I noticed that it had been raining last night – quite a lot in fact! So… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 6: Bamlach to Koblenz (CH)

Day 5 of our tour and we have already got in the groove and it feels like we have been on the road for longer. Today was forecasted to be even hotter than yesterday, and this is not ideal for Klaus, so we decided to set off very early and get the majority of the… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 5: Appenweier to Bamlach

I slept well last night, Klaus needed to worship before the air conditioning unit in the middle of the night because he overheated, but overall it was a restful night after the hard day’s cycling. And today dawned, 18 June, which was my 48th birthday. I had lots of lovely messages on Facebook, WhatsApp etc,… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 4: Speyer to Appenweier

Despite the threat of rain last night it had remained dry. I woke up early as always (5:00am) and read most of the Internet before Klaus woke. We decided to go for a short walk to the Rhein before breakfast. Just a few metres from our hotel was this bicycle ferry landing stage; I liked… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 3: Walluf to Speyer

Day 2 of our tour started with a slightly cloudy sky but no sign of rain. Breakfast at the hotel started officially at 9am, which was a bit late as we were both up and dressed by 7:30 and keen to get going as we had 150km to ride today. So instead we packed everything… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 2: Drachenfels to Walluf

So our summer Velomobile tour starts here! Long in planning (I think the first tracks were prepared in January), our first day of the tour would be a trip along the Rhein to Drachenfels, just south of Bonn and on the other side of the Rhein. We posted a list of our day stages on… Continue reading Bodensee 2019 Day 1: Kempen to Drachenfels

As mentioned in my blog post from May 2019, Klaus and I planned to take part in the Grensland Tour organised by the Dutch Grensrijders on the 1st June. The tour would start from Posterholt in the Netherlands which is about 50km from home. We decided this was a bit far in one day, as… Continue reading Grensland Tour, May/June 2019

The Easter long weekend of 2019 turned out to have a rather good weather forecast. Rather good for bike touring!! Unfortunately, before the thought of touring had had much of a chance to get established, Emily (Klaus’s Quattrovelo) broke yet another weld in her rear suspension/axle/frame whilst we were out on a ride together. It… Continue reading Easter 2019 Netherlands Tour