After a quick trip out for some breakfast we returned to the apartment to do some jobs. Steve’s bags had ripped so he called NASA for some advice and then modelled the fix in CFD before wrapping a load of duct tape around a sink strainer which he’d got from a pound store.
With the jobs done it was time to crack on, we’d planned to leave the luggage at our base and take the bikes through the alps. In reality though we were both knackered so opted to stay in the room for another 15 mins, then another 20 mins, then zzzz.
We woke up for lunch and decided to ditch the bike plan. We found a mini octoberfest style place serving traditional German food and beer so we filled up there, although we did feel out of place not wearing leather shorts.
Everywhere we stop to eat, steve gets surrounded by sparrows like the opening scene in Snow White or something. He waits until they’re all together then feeds them a crumb and puts bets on which will win. I’m sure this sport is banned in several countries.
We found a fake beach at the lakes edge, so got a drink at the bar and slumped into some deck chairs that were in high demand. There we found the fault in this bars business model; people would buy one drink and then sit there all day dozing in the deck chairs in the sun, so we did the same.
After a while we went to a car museum that we’d spotted, only to find out that it wasn’t a museum, it was a restaurant with some cars in it. It was ridiculously expensive, so we just drooled through the window at cars like a Terstarossa, gull wing merc and classic mustangs.
On the evening we went out to find every restaurant packed out with no tables available anywhere. We thought that we might have to go back to stroppy bar but good timing saw us nick a table in the town centre. We treated ourselves to a decent steak which was huge.
Bloated, we went back to the harbour to watch the sunset and managed to fit in an ice cream before heading back to the room for an early night. What a lazy day!
Wish I was there
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