Day 27 - Leaving Bavaria
Friday 2 August 2019
We find a glorious road that winds up and over a small summit that according to the iPhone photo information is called either Oberaudorf or Erl. Photo info is often wrong though. I'm guessing it comes from the GPS data.
Signs tell us that this is the Alpenstrasse.
After a couple of hours of riding through the most beautiful countryside in the northern foothills of the Alps we find the storm clouds are gathering. A sudden downpour has us scurrying for the nearest shelter.
The Gasthof Wölflhof is a very old traditional alpine inn and we are warmly welcomed as we dash over the threshold. I can recommend the amazingly tasty creamy potato soup they serve up.
The storm is big and lasts for more than an hour. But we are happy to shelter in the lovely old inn. It is dressed in the finest alpine style with heavy duty wooden furniture and stuffed animals standing around. There is a huge boar's head mounted on the wall in the hallway.
We are up and packed early at Camping Allweglehen. the storm has passed and the sun soon gets to work on the thick mist and cloud that hovers in the valley.
First we have breakfast in the camp restaurant. it is good but a little pricey at €15.
The cost of camping here is also a bit of a shock. It used to be less I am sure but this time we are charged €29 each which is the highest price we have paid for camping on the whole trip.
We try to avoid the 'eurocamp' style places and this place now falls into that category. For bike travellers who are only looking for a one or two night stopover the small family-run sites are always the best and certainly the cheapest. You don't need holiday facilities since you don't use them.
We need showers, toilets, flat ground preferably with grass underfoot. A camp shop is a bonus but there is usually a store within easy riding distance and we try to carry emergency rations in case there is not.
We don't need saunas, pools, wellness centres, table tennis, football courts or playgrounds. And we prefer not to be surrounded by camper vans with satellite dishes, barbecues and irritating sprogs.
First we have breakfast in the camp restaurant. it is good but a little pricey at €15.
The cost of camping here is also a bit of a shock. It used to be less I am sure but this time we are charged €29 each which is the highest price we have paid for camping on the whole trip.
We try to avoid the 'eurocamp' style places and this place now falls into that category. For bike travellers who are only looking for a one or two night stopover the small family-run sites are always the best and certainly the cheapest. You don't need holiday facilities since you don't use them.
We need showers, toilets, flat ground preferably with grass underfoot. A camp shop is a bonus but there is usually a store within easy riding distance and we try to carry emergency rations in case there is not.
We don't need saunas, pools, wellness centres, table tennis, football courts or playgrounds. And we prefer not to be surrounded by camper vans with satellite dishes, barbecues and irritating sprogs.
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| Settling up at Camping Allwegelen |
Our route today will follow the Germany-Austria border for the morning on small roads. Then we will take the autobahn to get past Munich and north east out of Bavaria and into Baden-Württemberg. Then back onto the side roads to our next camping location.
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| The photo info tells me this is Oberaudorf or Erl |
Signs tell us that this is the Alpenstrasse.
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| Shelter from the storm |
The Gasthof Wölflhof is a very old traditional alpine inn and we are warmly welcomed as we dash over the threshold. I can recommend the amazingly tasty creamy potato soup they serve up.
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| Inside the Wölflhof, Aurach, Bavaria |
I don't have any more photos from today, not sure why. After the storm we are soon on the autobahn and follow the A8 around Munich to the east of the city, then north up the A7 to Aalen. it is a few hours and a few hundred kilometres of busy, hot and boring travel.
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| Keeping a beady eye on things in the Wölflhof
But eventually we are back on the side roads as we ride up to a small hilltop camping ground where i have stayed on a couple of previous trips. It is cheap, unpretentious and just the sort of place that we like.
Tired after a long day in the saddle we are soon set up and relaxing in the late evening sun.
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