rainy days and Mondays

    It was raining when i awoke in Reich's hotel Ingolstadt, the internet was good so i took my laptop to breakfast with me and got my fill of the continental breakfast fair while working on the blog, this is all good and well but it always means that i am packing later and getting wet weather gear on while making sure all electrical and perishable stuff is water proofed, then putting on over shoes and waterproof trousers in the container in the car park before eventually setting of in the rain
 

I opted to cycle out to the Audi factory as it was only 0.4mile from the hotel and i would truly have loved a wander round! but !! nobody to watch the bike it was nearing midday i had to get moving I just took photos of the outside and moved on (maybe one day? i enjoyed my tour of BMW`s museum in Munich and this one looked better)

sign says 2447.6! that`s how many KM`s to the sea

    I stopped in the town centre the bike tyres were needing air and i seen someone repairing his bike he had a big pump i cycled over to ask for a shot of his pump, this was a mistake it was a homeless bloke who was cycling around with all his worldly possessions in a trailer he was trying to tell me his sad tale of why he was on the road alone and homeless, his broken English was hard to follow but he had lost his job and home and asked me if i had anything for him? I gave him my change about three euros and never asked for a shot of his pump, I just wanted to get away from his broken English poor bugger

      I cycled out passed the army museum I would have liked to have visited that also, but was quickly cycling out of town and along the flood dyke gravel tracks of the now wide and deep looking Danube and over the first of many damns i would see and go over this first one i stopped and took lots of photos on
   

   the rain was consistent all day drizzly rain not a down pour and that track was of various quality sometimes gravel paths through woods sometimes roads through small towns or farm roads undulating and winding through small towns until eventually the route comes to a gorge in the upper region of the Danube near a place called kelhiem, the guide book says its a hard climb and most cyclists take the ferry? I opted for the ferry also, I probably wouldn't have bothered had the guide book told me it was nine euro fifty for the short journey then again i enjoyed it and was glad i took the ferry as i got pleasant views of the gorge with a beer in hand just a shame it was raining
   

  once at Kelhiem i had a wander around town there was a cool looking brauhous, most large towns in Bavaria have these microbreweries with attached bier gardens and restaurants  this one looked great but was shut, i asked how much it was to stay at a small hotel called lamm weiss (white lamb) it was 60 euro including breakfast i opted to stay as i wanted to get my soaking wet kit cleaned up and dried somehow( the room radiator was well used! I just had dinner there also but there was no wifi

photo taken in the morning