Day 15 Schwangau - Lermoos

'Much better day today.  Fairly leisurely breakfast at the campsite then on to have a look at Nueschwanstein castle, but decided not to stop as it was already really busy and my back wheel was so shoogly that it was almost unrideable.  So off into Fussen where we found a really helpful bike shop beside the station who soon sorted me out with a new tyre.  Fussen and the surrounding area looks well worth another visit to spend some more time there.

But onwards into Austria, today's climb was fairly steady apart from a really steep bit of off road section just after Reutte, not only couldn't we cycle it, but we had to resort to teamwork to push one bike at a time up between us.  This was when we really felt the weight of a 35kg bike!

After that the going got easier with breathtaking views along the way. We stopped off at the Tyrolean ski resort of Lermoos for the night.  Stopping I plenty of time to carefully check out the good variety of restaurants available and eventually decide on the worst one. (At least I hope it was the worst!)

 

We have now evacuated to cafe Sam for a decent pudding of chocolate cake and a small refreshment.

Tomorrow we'll head on over the Fernpass and see how far we get towards Italy. 

Today's miles 34

Total miles 843

Today's climbing 1965 feet