Things That Happened During Summer Break (part 8)

And after NESAT... holidays! Well, a few days of work inbetween, which included sourcing, portioning, packing, and sending off fabrics for a school project:



That was a fun thing to do - and I'm looking forward to hearing how it all played out!

After that, though, finally: Holidays. With the pandemic still a factor, we had been thinking about what to do for the holidays, and in the end, we had decided to do a bicycle tour again. Our last one was several years ago (paddling and hiking came inbetween), and The Most Patient Husband of Them All had wanted to do the Bodensee-Königssee-Route for a long time now, so in the end, that was what we chose to do. It was clear before that we had more days than the tour would be good for, so the plan was to ride the train down to Lindau with the tandem, then do the tour, and afterwards cycle homewards as far as we'd get.

Well. That plan did not survive its encounter with reality or, to be more precise, the strike of the train personnel... so we ended up going by train for a short bit, then cycling a bit, then catching a train that was actually going a few days later and riding down to Lindau. Never mind, though - our plan was to have fun on the bike, and that we did.

[caption id="attachment_6442" align="alignnone" width="300"] The bike, loaded up with all our gear.


The tour was wonderful, and quite hilly. We spent the nights in our tent and found out that campsites in that alpine area are ridiculously expensive compared to other places - but, well, they're still cheaper than staying in proper buildings, and the tent is a very good choice in pandemic times.

I usually take along something to read (ebooks for the win on trips like that), and something fun to do, and in this case, my pharaoh accompanied me. I did actually get around to do a little bit of weaving - not much, since the evenings were rather short daylight-wise - but enough to make me happy to have taken it along.

[caption id="attachment_6441" align="alignnone" width="300"] Proof of the travelling pharaoh!


I even managed to re-heddle and fix a heddling mistake! That was very satisfactory.

Altogether, we cycled close to 1000 km, with two rest days (one spent on the train to Lindau, and one spent at the Königssee). We also felt very old-fashioned and a bit odd with all the e-bikes zooming past us, especially on the two first days of the tour proper, where it was quite hilly and quite steep...