Ewan's Cycling Blog

The day started pretty badly. We woke up to thunderstorms and lightening (“🎵very very frightening me, mama mia mama mia🎵” thanks Freddie). There was much discussion over the disappointing Hotel Constantia buffet breakfast of how much fun it might be to ride 125km in thunderstorms. While we are here, what is it about Central European breakfasts in hotels? Are they made out of a kit? “Hans, do we have the slightly rubbery scrambled eggs?” “Of course Helga, but your job is to check that we’ve laid out the platter of suspiciously generic smoked meats, fish and the plastic cheese”. “Hans! What about the disfunctional coffee machine that produces flavourless brown coffee juice?”. “No problem Helga, I’ve made sure that it misfires every second coffee and produces only hot water”. “Well done Hans, we are ready for the guests this morning”. The Hotel Constantia is definitely somewhere to avoid if you’re ever in Konst...

Well this was a long day. We woke up in the funky Hotel Central to be greeted by the sound of rain pouring down outside. The rain did nothing to enhance the vibe-less feel of Vaduz. East Kilbride shopping centre but with watch shops rather than vape stores. Even the excellent buffet breakfast at the Hotel Central didn’t manage to dull the sense that we were going to have to go out in this and cycle 125km.   Rain, the Rhine and some cold wet people. The Eurovelo folks had started the route on top of the dykes along the Rhine which were, compared to the Danube cycleways, the absolute paragon of cycling infrastructure. However, despite being smooth, flat and going in the direction we wanted to go, it was time for some traditional Eurovelo distractions. We crossed the Rhine and headed away from it up into the hills through little Swiss villages. All very cute but really rather tiresome in places. Nice to see a more traditional side of Switz...