{"id":1034,"date":"2011-06-01T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2011-10-14T19:38:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T17:38:55","slug":"day-12-tuesday-may-31-strasbourg-france-to-breisach-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Day 12, Tuesday, May 31 – Strasbourg, France to Breisach, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We wanted an early start as we had a storm approaching and we really wanted to be checked into a hotel in the next town before the storm’s ‘noon arrival’.\u00a0 But breakfast was not until 7:00 and we HAD to see what a french breakfast was like.\u00a0 It was (almost) just as wonderful; all of the same trimmings, just no brochen (I could SO do a day without).<\/p>\n

We joined the commuters at 8:00 am, but quickly lost them as most were heading into town and we were heading out.<\/p>\n

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Our first 22 miles was a fabulous, long straight bike path along the Rhein canal<\/em> with an occasional retired river barge,\u00a0the beautiful sites and sounds of the forest AND protection from the wind.<\/p>\n

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We were also treated to a few of the remaining locks on this canal (originally over 500)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> the cute houses that sat adjacent and<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>a beautiful family of swans.<\/p>\n

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We had not realized how strong the wind was until our bike path ended and we were out on the road among open fields.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The advantage was the towns were very charming,<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>though still no people.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The wind was brutal and the clouds were threatening,<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>but we could see the rain on the mountains in the distance; we did NOT want to have wind AND rain, so we pressed on.<\/p>\n

The towns, few and far between, offered little protection but good visual distraction.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The homes have their barns (for cattle, we assume from the smell) connected by a courtyard, all rather “close”.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We crossed the bridge back into Germany by noon. Without a stop for 4 straight hours of strong biking and 10 miles still to go, we had to stop.\u00a0 A slight break in the clouds allowed us a ten minute breather and a quick snack break.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was well worth it.\u00a0 Unfortunately, our last ten miles was on a gravel path, so the going was slower (or was supposed to be), but we managed to check-in before the rain.\u00a0 And what a charming town.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Finally, people walking around, flowers everywhere……’just lovely’!<\/p>\n

We checked in by 1:00, seconds before the rain came.\u00a0\u00a0 A wonderful hot shower, good meal (goulash soup) and we head out between the raindrops for a quick look at the town.\u00a0 Tomorrow the weather turns worse, but after 12 straight days of biking, the last four over 50 miles each, we are ready to take a break.\u00a0 And obviously, we will have some great things to explore on our day off tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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We wanted an early start as we had a storm approaching and we really wanted to be checked into a hotel in the next town before the storm’s ‘noon arrival’.\u00a0 But breakfast was not until 7:00 and we HAD to see what a french breakfast was like.\u00a0 It was (almost) just as wonderful; all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}