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Today was a rest day, with only 20 miles from beginning to end. I needed desperately to update my blog, upload pictures, shower for longer than .50 Euros would allow (the campgrounds all have coin-operated showers) and do a small shopping (my wurst supplies were near critical). I decided to stop in Radolfzell, a relatively large town just a small ways away.
Luckily for me, that it was market day when I got there!
I bought a roll of bread with a weiner in, as is my wont, and strolled around to observe a typical German outdoor market. First impression: they sell a lot of cleaning supplies. Brooms, brushes, solvents, mops, soaps, scrapers, unguents and salves. It makes me wonder what came first: German anal retension or the German cleaning products industry? A chicken and egg problem. Here's a broom stand:
So I wandered through the town, bought some supplies, went back to the hotel and messed around on my first solid power and Internet connection in 4 days. My room was very nice and affordable, except for the fact that the ceiling came down through the middle of it at a 45 degree angle, which meant I would scrape my shoulders every I stood up.
So I would crab-walk around the room to avoid further shoulder injuries.
I received an invite from an email companion to come to Basel for a night. I hadn't planned on heading that way, but I was already a few days ahead of my rough itinerary. So, after consulting a map, the Planning Committee (which consists of myself and a tiny plastic Koala) make tracks for Basel, a two day ride to the west, on the Rhine river.
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