Like most of the routes the top-down hierarchy is as follows; paved paths, paved segregated lanes, dirt paths, designated on-road lanes and finally, on-road with no lane markings. But bikes are so popular that we're treated well anywhere.
First the photos;
Bike in the drizzle
Cyclists are treated like kings (as far as signposts are concerned)
Schaffhausen
Rheinfall View
We disembark on the rock island between falls
and climb a narrow wet staircase to the top
Above Rheinfall
Common Wooden Boat called a Zille
I ended up traversing the interesting place called Büsingen, which is German territory completely enclosed within Switzerland. So I crossed two Bundesrepublik Deutschland frontiers in a matter of minutes.
Border #1
and Border #2 complete with barricade.
Back to Diessenhofen from the Southwest
And the day's movie.
Jim
Great pics. How's the bike handling?
ReplyDeleteNot bad considering how clunky it looks. I can do an easy 20kph on pavement but I wouldn't want to try harder. I had to push it up some nasty climbs up from the shoreline and it's a brute.
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