Wednesday 25 April

Wednesday 25 April 2012

Had a very pleasant night in a hotel next to the motorway just before the Luxembourg border and after a couple of coffees and a shower back on the road through Luxembourg which seemed very nice from what we could see then into Germany.

We stopped off in a little village just inside the German Border and found a café for breakfast giving Viv chance to practice her German on the assistant. We had a wander around and visited a beautiful church before heading back to the car where Viv spent a while chatting to some old dear who seemed quite struck that a couple of Brits had parked a car towing a boat on her street.

The journey through Germany was lovely with some massive valleys, bridges and tunnels in places and loads of Red Kites, Buzzards and Kestrels along the route and even the odd the eagle I could not identify.

The day ended though with some stress as Viv took us into the middle of Ulm in rush hour and road works made us undertake a few detours before we arrived at a youth hostel in some back quarter of the city for the night. They found us a nice room and we had some sort of spiced pork with rice and a very garlicky sauce followed by custard and cream .

Having had dinner and calmed the nerves we caught the bus into Ulm and had a wander around the town. It has a lovely church/cathedral after the style of the one in Cologne only smaller and some lovely bars and walks along the river Danube where we watched as couple of Dragon boats beating up against the strong current.