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I’m up, washed and dressed at 08:37. I’m about to make some breakfast. I bought butter, cheese and bread yesterday so with my honey and marmalade, I’ll have a nice mix. Tunes or podcasts to accompany breakfast, as I’m in the house alone. I slept well. I took the quilt out of its cover and just slept under the cover with the window open. I was slightly cool at some points before dawn but wrapping myself in the cover fixed that.
09:43: Finished breakfast. It was €3.93. There are only two slices of bread left, half the Limburger cheese and most of the butter. I darned the DECATHLON technical socks that had a loose thread at the cuff and chucked the sewing kit afterwards. I’m about to plan my route to Ulm now.
12:59:32: Hüfingen is such a well-functioning community that there’s a public book exchange at the bus stop in the town. The perspex flaps are only there to keep the weather off; there are no locks.
13:09: On the train to Donaueschingen again, this time to visit the bookshop in the train station. I’d like to buy a map to give me an overview of Bayern the next state East after Baden-Württemberg.
13:43:08
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13:45:37
I spent a good hour on a café terrace with a cup of tea and an Apfelschorle (€3.90) finding youth hostels and campsites along the Danube. It’s a tricky business. I’ve found a website that listed several between Donaueschingen and Ulm.
15:20: Two black teas, a custom mixed salad with cheese (and boiled eggs) a huge slice of apple tart: €12.20. On a terrace in the sun.
I’m in Donaueschingen now. I’ve bought a hefty booklet that describes the cycle path along the Danube all the way from Donaueschingen to Passau, on the Austrian border in excellent 1:50,000 detail and, most importantly, lists loads of accommodation options from rooms in private houses to campsites, youth hostels and luxury hotels. I’m really tempted to follow it all the way to the Austrian border., but that means bypassing Augsburg and München. It’s a tough choice. Also, following the Danube all the way to Passau brings me substantially North of the line I’d like to be on, approaching Austria. Conceivably I could follow the Danube all the way to Budapest and then duck South through Romania.
19:37: €14.00 for dinner of a mixed salad, egg and spinach pide, tea and half a litre of Apfelschorle.
I’m now reading Gary Kildall’s unpublished memoir.
20:33:34
Later: Karin took care of washing my clothes and she was in the house when I returned. We chatted, I got the clothes, uploaded pics, posted to Twitter.
