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    • Traveler3 Länder im September
      Day 5

      Tag 5

      September 22, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

      3 Länder im September - Tag 5: Gestern Abend kam ein heftiger Regenschauer über Reihnau runter. Zum Glück für mich hat es in der Nacht geregnet und am Morgen war der Regen fort. Es war jedoch bewölkt und es zeigte mir auf dem Radar immer wieder Regen an. Doch zuerst frühstückte ich ausgiebig. Ein herrliches Frühstück mit frisch gebackenem Brot und Vielem mehr. Die Gastgeber waren sehr zuvorkommend und sehr freundlich. Ich fühlte mich sehr wohl im Landgasthof Ratz und kann diesen Ort sehr empfehlen. Nachdem ich meinen Bauch gefüllt habe gings dann auf mein Velo. Die erste Hälfte der Strecke wieder flach auf gut signalisierten Radwegen. Kurz vor dem Schwarzwald musste ich dann aber noch durch die Kreisstadt Rastatt, die mir wieder mehrere Schweissperlen auf die Stirn zauberte. Mein Navi führte mich dann mitten durch eine Baustelle und plötzlich gings nicht mehr weiter, ich stand vor einem Gitter und kam nicht mehr weiter. Also alles wieder zurück. Mit Müh und Not hab ich mir einen Weg durch die Stadt gesucht. Plötzlich fuhr auch noch die Grenzpolizei langsam neben mir her und hielt etwas vor mir. Ich bog jedoch rechts ab und war wieder auf meinem Weg und hab so die Grenzpolizei stehen lassen 😅. Das Wetter war durchzogen und ich sah immer wieder in der Ferne, dass es regnete. Ich kam aber gut davon, einmal fings an zu regnen, aber als ich meine Regenklamotten anhatte, war der Regen auch schon wieder vorbei🙈😅.
      Plötzlich war ich am nordöstlichen Anfang des Schwarzwald, der mich gleich mit einer extremen Steigung begrüsste. Sowas hab ich noch nie erlebt, ich dachte, dass ich rückwärts wieder runterrole oder mit dem Velo nach hinten umfalle, so steil war es. Aber ich habs geschafft und war umso stolzer auf mich , als ich den Anstieg hinter mir hatte. Über Felder, Wälder, kleinere und grössere Dörfer, an Bächen und Weiden fuhr ich durch die Natur. Einfach wunderschön war die Strecke trotz immer wiederkehrenden Anstiegen. Ich hab mich verliebt, so schön ist die Natur hier. Nach einer längeren Pause, in der ich mir eine stärkende Brühe und einen Apfel genehmigte gings dann noch ca. 25 km zu meiner heutigen Unterkunft. In Entzklösterle ein Kurort im Schwarzwald steuerte ich mein Ziel, das Hotel Hirsch mit Cafe Klösterle an. Mein Velo konnte ich in den Velokeller stellen, musste es aber eine Treppe runtertragen und morgen früh dann wieder rauf😬😅. Als ich mein Zimmer betrat war ich hin und weg. Ein helles, kleines aber enorm gemütliches Zimmer mit Panoramafenster und einem Balkon mit Sicht auf die Wälder. Nach einer ausgiebigen Dusche liess ich mir auf dem Balkon die Sonne ins Gesicht scheinen. Später gabs dann ein sagenhaft feines Abendessen und einen Dessert dazu. Jetzt geniesse ich noch den Abend und freu mich auf den Schlaf mit Schwarzwaldluft🍀.      Read more

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    • TravelerEurope
      Day 53

      Rest Day: Black Forest

      August 17, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

      Rest day off the bikes today so I took the opportunity to go for a long walk and rest my mind in the woodland of the Black Forest. Dense tree cover and lush undergrowth. It was about 8 miles and up to 850m. Perfect rest day in a beautiful part of the worldRead more

    • TravelerEurope 2018
      Day 48

      Bad Wildbad

      May 28, 2018 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 68 °F

      Lots of plans for today. My first longer walk in the Black Forest. My host suggested a place on the map called Grunhutte, a guest house in the middle of the forest about 3+ miles away. Sounded good for my first trip into the forest. Walk was beautiful and easy, green everywhere. The forest is really not like "hiking", it truly is a walk. Some of the trails are what we call in the US, forest roads. All is very clean, lots of benches along the paths and little huts every couple miles. The guest house was lovely - lots of flowers and outdoor seating for walkers. Went a different way on the way back and stopped at one of the hut areas - all have picnic benches 0 to have my sandwich.

      Back by 1:30PM, a little rest and out to check out Bad Wildbad. To get to town, you can take the funicular down the mountain, do your business and take it back up. Decided to do this once just for the fun of it. (I do have a car of course). Fun ride, lots of people here at the top of the mountain use it as their daily means to get back and forth. I checked out the TI (tourist information) looking for some music in the area. Did find some for Friday night. The town is long and skinny as it takes advantage of the riverfront. Lots of cafes, some shops and of course, bakeries and ice cream everywhere. I checked all of that out on my way to the grocery store for a few more provisions and then back up the mountain for cocktail hour. :-)

      Made some pasta sauce, did some planning for a trip to Heidelberg tomorrow, and had pasta on my deck about 9PM. Good day.

      Miles: 9.1      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2018
      Day 47

      Bad Wildbad

      May 27, 2018 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F

      A really lazy day, must have needed a recup day. Woke up early and took a morning and afternoon nap !! :-) I went out late AM to check out the Black Forest area around me.
      This settlement is at the top of Sommerberg mountain and attracts a lot of tourists and weekend folk. Lots of folk doing the Treetop Walk - an amazing walk in the woods to a huge tower that you walk around until you are above the trees. Its minutes away from my doorstep. Pictures are not good as weather started to turn. Day started with sunshine but, the weather forecast was correct and around noon significant thunder though very little rain. Checked out the first longer walk I want to do tomorrow - about 7-8 mile rt to a little town about 4 miles away in the forest that is supposed to have a good restaurant. This is also a big biking area with trails all over that are "engineered" - e.g. bank and bumps, etc. Not your usual biking through the woods. A ski hut close to here with a rope tow nearby. I was amazed to see a fellow coming up the rope tow on his bicycle - they have some kind of device that attached to the rope tow that brings them up the mountain on the rope tow!! My kind of cycling - all downhill. Having said that, I saw a lot of trails that were engineered above my ability even it it was downhill.!!!

      Took a ride this afternoon, checked out the downtown of Bad Wildbad and a town about 4K away. Lots to do here and a railroad station to get me to wherever I do not want to drive.

      Out to dinner tonight. There are 2 hotels in this area that I can walk to and not have to take the car down the mountain. Ate at one of them - the Auerhahn. Was ready for a good dinner and had Salmon-trout (steelhead to me) with asparagus and potatoes. It was very good. Home for some back yard silence and back to apartment.

      Miles: 3      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2018
      Day 55

      Bad Wildbad

      June 4, 2018 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 68 °F

      Another relaxing day, walking and enjoying the incredible scenery all around me. Off this AM to find a new area to walk. Drove 10-12 miles in a different direction, parked off the main road and went for a lovely walk along a rapidly flowing stream with the forest all around me. Walked for 3-4 miles and then back to the car to find a new place to walk. Decided I was hungry so saw this lovely place up on a hill - lovely outdoor area to eat and whiled away an hour an a half - taking in the scenery and having a terrific lunch. Salad Neptune. Will attach picture - 3 pieces of wonderful salmon or steelhead - not sure which - (menu all in German). Will attach pic. Their presentation of salad is wonderful here. Just always too much food. Hated to leave any of this as it was all wonderful. But under that mound of greens was potato salad and coleslaw!!!

      Back to Bad Wildbad to look around at places I had not seen yet. Needed some new face lotion - this being a spa town, choices were numerous. Checked out the "baths" I am going to tomorrow, compared to US prices, this will be a bargain. Gas, grocery store, etc. Back to home for a "lie down" and then out for a "second to final" walk in the woods. Weather is incredible - low to mid 70s with sun and puffy white clouds. The evening is wonderful here, the tourists are gone and the forest is left to those of us staying on the top of the hill. Quiet and peaceful.

      Back for some back yard/garden time to ensure I enjoy all of the sunshine for the day. I have essentially spent 2 months living outside with the exception of sleeping. I could get used to this. Just checked the weather for London and it should be in the low 70s when I arrive!! A nice conversation with the host of this place while he was grilling their dinner. Also met Elfrieda, their cat, the world's best mouser. She has a never ending source of meat with the forest out the back door.

      Miles: 5.6      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2018
      Day 51

      Bad Wildbad

      May 31, 2018 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 72 °F

      Another lovely sunny AM and out the door for a walk leaving from Kaltenbronn about 12 miles away. Lots of people with the same idea today as when I got there a bit after 10 and most all the shady parking places were taken.

      This is also a popular walking area. Only about 5.5 miles rt but I planned to add on a bit. The round trip goes through the forest for about 3 miles and then comes around to a large Nature Preserve that has a small lake - Wildsee. The popular route for many folk is just to walk out to the preserve, look at the late and come back - about 3 miles. Since that was the busier way I went through the forest first. Lots of trees and everything so very green. Clouds came in early around 11 or so. Decided to do the extra mile and a half and went to Grunhutte, a guest house and restaurant in the forest. I had been there the other day coming from the opposite direction. They are known for their Blueberry Pancakes and I got to see many of them being served. Wish I had taken a picture of one. The pancake filled the entire plate and was fluffy on the edges. The middle was filled with a mound of blueberry sauce. They looked wonderful! While eating my lunch there the clouds got serious and it started to pour. People came to the place from every location in the forest. Fun to watch. I waited it out along with rest and then started back to the Nature Park and Wildsee. A very pretty walk - sprinkled the rest of the way.

      Home for a little rest and clean up and out for dinner in Bad Wildbad. Went to one of the hotels in town for dinner - Alte Linde. It was OK - I need to learn that I am in a meat eating country and not order fish. Trout was pretty tasteless but done well. Potato croquettes were very good. Home for another episode of Berlin Station and my new book.

      Miles: 8.4      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2018
      Day 54

      Bad Wildbad

      June 3, 2018 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F

      Lazy AM catching up on "paper" work. Needed to check in flight to London, ensure all set for Home Away in London, and figure out how to get from Gatwick to the last apartment on this trip. Also starting to look at theater in London. Then off for the day.

      First a walk in the woods out the back door to find the bridge that my host mentioned when I first got here. The bridge is a newly built 1km long pedestrian suspension bridge in the forest that is just being finished. The dedication is scheduled for mid July. The bridge is on the Fairy Tale trail in the woods. Lots of Fairy Tale iconography in this area as the Brothers Grimm, revered for their telling of fairy tales, lived and wrote here. I followed the trail a short ways and found the bridge, quite an engineering feat. It starts and ends in the woods but spans over open space with terrific views of the towns below for about 1K other 0.65 mile. Though it does look like they still have a ways to go to be ready for 7/15. Another amazing thing to see and do right out of my front door. I really just lucked out on this place - wanted to be in the forest but had no idea where. Since I wanted 11 days, lots of other places not available for that long. Sometimes luck is better than skill. Walked a bit more and came across a Hang-gliding take off spot. Watched one fellow got ready and took off - have a video but you cannot put videos into this blog. Not sure I could just run out and jump off a mountain. :-)

      Then off for a ride. Target was Baiserbroon - about 30 miles away. I have found a good website - https://theculturetrip.com/europe/germany/artic… -- and I am knocking them off one by one. Have done the top 3 so today is number 4, about 30 miles South of me. The town itself was nice but the terrain in this area was beautiful. There is more open space from the forest so you see pristine, steepled towns in the distance when you turn every corner. Also visited an old (built in the 9th Century) monastery, lovely grounds and garden - Benedictine monks. Found a place to park and just picked a path and walked for an hour+. Paths everywhere and lots of folk out for Sunday afternoon walks but still not hard to get away. Back to home to get the last half hour of sunshine in the back yard garden. Relaxing Sunday.

      Pasta for dinner - last meal I will cook here. Finished a book I have been listening to - The Exile - Richard North Patterson - very good. And then finished the first season of Berlin Station on Netflix. Very good as well.

      Miles: 5.9      Read more

    • TravelerEurope 2018
      Day 49

      Bad Wildbad

      May 29, 2018 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 63 °F

      Off to Heidelberg via train on the 8:35. Heidelberg is only about 50 miles away but decided to take the train to save the hassle of constant GPS navigation and parking once I was there. Turned out to be a questionable decision. :-)

      I had always wanted to go back to Heidelberg, a city that I just drove through once and thought it looked pretty and worth coming back to. Train schedules from here (a small town) usually have multiple transfers to get to anything over 20 miles away. I looked on line (very good and user friendly website) and found one that only had one transfer so took that. My host told me that if I parked in Calmbach, a town about 2-3 miles from Bad Wildbad, I would not need to pay for parking. Bad Wildbad has virtually no street parking, all in large parking garages. So left from Calmbach, the train stopped every 5 minutes, filled with commuter folk and those just going to the grocery store. Found a new "best friend" in a kid who worked in one of the towns along the way but was on his way back home to Romania for vacation. 20 something very social and loved to talk about what he was doing. 20 something and speaks 3 languages !!! The 2nd train was a bullet train and sped right along to Heidelberg.

      Arrived at the train station, a big and busy place. TI right outside to get a map and transit information. Transportation is cheap here as this is primarily a university town, The famous Heidelberg University. Bus/tram ticket only about $1.60. I took a tram to the Old Town - a large area where most of the tourist sites are located. Walked the Old Town, took the Old Bridge across the Neckar river which flows through the City. Climbed to the top of one of the old churches (Protestant) and great 360 views. Pictures not great as it was cloudy. Sun came out at 4PM. Warm and sticky. Heidelberg castle on the hill above the town is a major tourist attraction. Did not go up there, chose instead to walk across the river to the Philosopher's walk - a lovely wooded walk high on a hill across the river from the Old Town. Known as the Philosopher's Walk as it is where the professors and philosophers from the university could converse in the beautiful green way and enjoy the views of the Old Town and Castle across the river. A truly beautiful spot. Checked out a lot of buildings that are a part of the university. Heidelberg population is 20% students and of the 25,000 students, about 20% are international. I heard a lot of English being spoken from the kids. Also found a place to get my nails done!!

      Back to train station for my 7:30PM train - which, when it showed up on the board was going to be 90 minutes late. So I had to get another set of trains that had 2 transfers and did not leave until 8:10PM. One of them only had 8 minutes to get from one train to another. Needless to say a bit stressful but all went well and was home only an hour later than I planed. A very busy day. A day off from tourism tomorrow.

      Miles: 8.5
      Floors Climbed: 38      Read more

    • TravelerEuropa 2017
      Day 10

      Baumwipfel des Schwarzwalds

      August 22, 2017 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

      Hoje o passeio foi ao norte da Floresta Negra no Baumwipfel em Sommerberg, uma passarela que permite caminhar sobre as copas das árvores, observando a floresta por cima.
      O passeio culmina numa torre de observação a uma altura de 40 metros, com uma vista espetacular de 360 ​​graus sobre as intermináveis ​​florestas e impressionantes vales da Floresta Negra.Read more

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    • TravelerEurope 2018
      Day 50

      Bad Wildbad

      May 30, 2018 in Germany ⋅ 🌧 72 °F

      A very lazy morning after 2 full days of tourism. Did not get started until about 1PM. Then off to check out a couple towns in the area. Read an article on the 10 best towns in the Black Forest so started on that list. The town of Calw (no idea how to pronounce) was noted as one of the most picturesque in the forest so decided to start there as it was only about 20 miles from my current home. What a treat! Good roads, easy to get to and easy to park. A combination not found frequently in Europe.

      A town full of half timbered houses set along the Enz River! If you love to see tons of this type of architecture, this is the place for you. Every color combination imaginable. Lovely to walk around and the usual cafes and shops. An interesting church with a butterfly as the focal point, could not find out what that was all about. (Sometimes it pays to go on a tour.) Wandered around for a couple hours, taking pictures and enjoying an apple sparkling water by the riverside. Good find.

      Then to check out another town, Kaltenbroon - mainly because I want to hike to there tomorrow. By foot through the forest its about 7 miles to get there from "home", by car its 14 miles !! Checked it out, got a map and have decided to drive over there in the AM and walk from there. There is a big nature preserve there as well as a couple lakes I would like to see and it looks like a nice walk. Weather has been warm (up to 80) but some of the humidity from the last couple days is gone. And always cooler in the forest.

      Back to town for a grocery store stop and home for pasta.

      Miles: 3      Read more

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