Day 27 Ehingen- Gunzberg. 70 kms

Our guest house was a superb family run business, which was the best so far on our trip.

Comfy beds, great food and all the family were friendly.

After we’d feasted ourselves on the wonderful breakfast, we once again set off to try to find the way onto the cycle trail.

The bike map takes a while to catch up and then it tries to send you down little alleys, which you can’t find and so on.

Ehingen church, & fountain from the cycle path.

I then worked out that we were the wrong side of the church, so I shot off in the right direction. Whilst turning herself around, Sue missed where I’d gone, so we lost each other, fortunately not for too long, but needless to say I received an earful, which didn’t start the day off too well!!

We established ourselves on the route, and had been pedalling for about 3 kms when I realised there were 2 major cycle routes out of town, and I’d chosen the wrong one, following another river valley, instead of the Danube🥱 (More earache!)

Fortunately it connected with the Danube 30 kms further on at Ulm, so we decided to carry on.

It was a good choice as it was a very pretty route, and Sue began to relax and smile again!

The river Ach gorge became narrower quite quickly

The gorge took us to the very pretty, touristy town of Blaubeuren where we enjoyed a coffee whilst watching the water wheel turning.

The blue pool that feeds the water wheel.

The route then took us out of the gorge and into The town of Ulm. We aimed for the famous church, as churches are normally where bars are found!
It was ironic I was served with a beer from Hell!! Was someone try to tell me something??

A really massive building. At 530 ft high it is the highest church steeple in the world: according to Wikipedia. It took a while to build, as they started construction in 1370, and finished it in1890, that’s more than 500 years!! It was worth the wait.

It’s hard to photograph as it’s so tall, but Sue is standing in front of the porch pillar. I needed a wide angle to get it all in, so the heavily decorated steeple is more impressive than in the photo. It will look even better when the scaffolding is removed.

The Rathaus (Town Hall) in Ulm. Tables and umbrellas seemed a bit inappropriate in front of such a splendid building.

After yet more culture and beer, we were back into the countryside; our favourite place! Apparently we were now in Bavaria, but there were signs to welcome us!?