{"id":1170,"date":"2011-06-04T20:33:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2011-10-14T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T18:06:14","slug":"day-15-friday-june-3-basel-switzerland-to-lieheim-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Day 15, Friday, June 3 – Basel, Switzerland to Lieheim, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful morning, overcast, but the green foothills reaching up behind the homes were very picturesque,
\n\"\"<\/a>though I’m sure I’ll be cursing those foothills later.\u00a0 Right now we were cursing the headwind, luckily there was not a pending storm we had to outrun, so we would take it slow (as if we had a choice).
\nWe were only in Switzerland for a mile or two, then the trail crossed the German border.
\n\"\"<\/a>We stopped in a bike store to see if they had a map we’d been looking for and he recommended we bike the Switzerland side, “much prettier”.
\nIt wasn’t far down the road we found a hydro electric damn
\n\"\"<\/a>and crossed the Rhein back into Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Having biked on only flat land for the past two weeks, we really noticed any bump in the road.\u00a0 These hills seemed like small mountains given our unconditioned legs, but the scenery was spectacular.
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\n\"\"<\/a> At the top of one of the hills coming into a town we ran into a bike problem.\u00a0 Luckily, we were able to find a bike store that fixed the problem with only 40 minutes lost,
\n\"\"<\/a>then ready to ride.
\nSwitzerland’s east side of the Rhein was beautiful,
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\"\"<\/a>but there were several times the bike path was dirt and very bumpy,
\n\"\"<\/a>at points we though we were not on the right path.\u00a0 Luckily, these two pretty horsewomen pointed us in the right direction.
\n\"\"<\/a>Saw a lot of swans
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\"\"<\/a>and on a couple of occasions, them coming in for landing.
\n\"\"<\/a> Beautiful scenery
\n\"\"<\/a>beautiful fields
\n\"\"<\/a>everything perfect except the strong head wind.<\/p>\n

After 38 miles we saw a way to get back to Germany, smoother paths and better bike signs and took it.<\/p>\n

We had not seen a single biker for 38 miles and as soon as we turned onto the bike path in Germany, they were everywhere.\u00a0 Entire families on tour, with young kids (probably as young as six) on their on bikes, some loaded with gear, but everyone smiling.\u00a0 And we could understand why, just spectacular.
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\"\"<\/a>We made a sharp right turn and almost collided with this darling church.
\n\"\"<\/a>Another sharp turn yielded a straight uphill climb, a least 14% grade, certainly not what we were ready for,
\n\"\"<\/a>and the picture does not do it justice.
\nBut the vista……\"\"<\/a>Up one more hill and we were in the small little town where we had decided to stop.\u00a0 Jerry had found this very charming hotel<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>that serves fabulous local beers and wines<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>and a “pretty” but scrumptious dinner.\u00a0 Note: the German wines are much better than I would have ever imagined (not sweet) and as good as the best Californian wines we’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

A quick walk around the two block town yielded farms<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>and flowers everywhere.
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\"\"<\/a>….and then to bed.<\/p>\n

We apologize to all, our internet signal has been spotty at best, so if we do not respond to your emails, or post for a day or two, it is unpreventable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a beautiful morning, overcast, but the green foothills reaching up behind the homes were very picturesque, though I’m sure I’ll be cursing those foothills later.\u00a0 Right now we were cursing the headwind, luckily there was not a pending storm we had to outrun, so we would take it slow (as if we had […]<\/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-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","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=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourdebocrie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}