Day 53 - 24/06/10
End Location: Saverne, France
Days Mileage: 236
Total Mileage: 7456
Ate like a ravenous wolf at breakfast! Gosh I was hungry. Discussed my journey with my lovely hostess and then set off after thanking her profusely.
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Got a ticket for the first English tour as long as I walked up to the castle so I was away. Hit the trail, helped some lost Germans, and then reached the top to find it overrun with Japanese tourists. Got chatting to an American lady who was fulfilling a lifetime ambition who luckily realised that I was about to miss my time slot so I was in. A good English speaking guide but my god did she speed us through! 25 minutes. But it was beautiful; like a huge, over the top version of Castle Coch in Wales. Each room was beautifully painted and themed to a Wagnerian opera. Not to mention the grotto! No wonder they called him the mad king! Who builds a cave indoors? Totally barking. I dawdled purposely to get my money's worth and felt it very worthwhile, even though it was so quick.
I walked up to the Mariensbruck and after having a tasty Japanese woman get very fruity over my leather trousers I was on my way back down. Threw all my change into a non functioning toilet turnstile and then simply stepped over it in a fit of pique leaving a queue of frustrated shorter people waiting outside.
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I set off for Baden Baden just because it was in the right direction and had lovely flowing roads before getting special treatment by a gorgeous blond girl in a cafe stop in an otherwise unmemorable town. We really hit it off and it was a shame to have to move on. I think she was a bit overcome by the romance of the mysterious stranger breezing into town on his bike.
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A run through the black forest and then I crossed the Rhine. The bike was feeling rough as a badgers arse but was pulling okay so I just pushed on back into France. I arrived at Saverne at about 7:30 and easily found a campsite with help from the world's fastest French speaker.
Impressed some of the snobbier caravanners when I returned to the campsite with burger and chips, and copious supplies of beer from the town. Get back in your mobile isolation chambers losers!
Had a good day today after all but it hasn't changed my mind.