Today’s ride was dominated by the persistent heat wave coming from Africa no doubt, and too many gravel pathways.
It’s still crazy hot in this part of the world, somewhere around 36° while we were meandering downhill along with the mighty Rhine. Perhaps Tara struggles with the heat more than GG but she seems to recover nicely with an afternoon mango ice-cream so not that serious an issue.
A lovely town gate at Waldshut
We passed by a nuclear power station just after Waldshut, not something we see at home. This one is on the Swiss side of the Rhine, is quite new and supplies 14% of Switzerland’s entire power need.
Swiss power
About halfway through the ride we crossed the river into Switzerland for the next two days by riding across a long covered bridge, one of several covered bridges which are kept in top shape.
About to go Swiss again
Now just a few words about pathways. This year our nicely planned (by me) route has unintentionally taken us onto a number of gravel pathways that we don’t appreciate. With our skinny tired road machine this makes for some nervous and slow riding so note to self, get it figured out. We did a few on the fly reroutes with our fancy GPS tech to avoid some of it.
What we did like was the route into Basel avoided the usual high traffic roadways which come into all major cities, pretty peaceful today. With all this heat we discovered the Baselians were jumping into the river by the hundreds and merrily and coolly floating downstream. Weird but true.
You just need to get yourself a Wickelfish, stuff your clothes into it, and jump in the river
The river is the place to be at (in)
A few of the hordes floating downstream
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