I decided to continue with my original tour plan and stay on the EuroVelo 6 route. The main goal of this tour was to ride in as many countries as possible. If I detour to Switzerland Alps I won’t have enough time to ride in Czech Republic and I really want to do that.
Today’s route followed the Rhine river and it crossed the border between Germany and Switzerland at least five times. I guess I never crossed countries borders so many times in one day before.
While riding I’ve talked with a few bike tourers that were going in the same direction. Most of them were local and did a couple days tours. One couple from Tasmania (!) was riding to Budapest on the same route as me but they do 60 km per day.
The highlight of the day was the stop at the Rhine Falls.
The route in Germany and Switzerland is marked well enough. Also the cycling roads are good in general. Out of the 70 miles today I shared the road with cars maybe for 5-8 miles. There are some sections on gravel roads but they are smooth and marked well. Also today’s ride had some climbs but nothing too bad.
This is such a beautiful route. We rode from Basel to shaffhausen two years ago on my birthday! It was pretty much perfect. Funny story: I kept seeing watch stores in town and thought: I need a new watch but I’ll wait until I get home and buy it there. When I got home and looked up “shaffhausen watch” I realized it wasn’t for me 😉
Haha, I guess they are for Swiss people who I was told are paid a lot and also pay very few taxes.