Day 2: Basel to Freiburg
The wheels held up well today, spinning the way to Freiburg. It was a gorgeous ride, hard to believe it was only about 60 miles with all the variety of scenery and terrain. Finding the way was much easier than I expected, because there are excellent bicycle paths parallel to the country roads in between towns. Who needs nationally sanctioned bike paths when the regional ones are this good? And with towns every 3-10km, there are plenty of places offering food and lodging. This trip is starting to look easier than I expected! And prettier, too.
Thanks to an early start, I arrived in Freiburg by 13:30 eurotime, and then spent the afternoon walking around the city checking out the old town and looking for open wifi spots (Freiburg has even fewer than Zurich and Basel - how stingy!). Ended up at an excellent biergarten - why are these only in Germany? The old town was very crowded with German-speaking tourists, which was a nice contrast from the morning’s ride during which I saw very few people in the towns and little English spoken.
Tomorrow’s route will be more challenging, up into France’s Vosges mountains.
(today was 65km of bicycling)
