A cool, cloudy day with still no rain.
Mid-ride today we stopped at the small city of Neuberg, seat of a tiny 15th century German state. We took time to visit the impressive palace the ruler had built, though the only thing open to see was the palace chapel with a huge ceiling fresco. After lunch there was a detour in the bike path which left us guessing where to go. We took one path which shortly petered out in a farmer's field. Back on the route we rode for a while with a gutsy young English girl who started riding in Paris and is heading for Istanbul. At a rest point we ran into another Englishman we'd met on the trail yesterday. When we moved on, for some reason the girl stayed back with the young man rather than ride with the old coots.
Lots of unpaved path today, some of it rough. We've become accustomed to riding on gravel paths, something we have not done much before. No big deal, but slow.
The route so far has been mostly flat, with elevation dropping imperceptibly as we move down the river valley, but today the route moved away from the river in places and was quite hilly.
Finally reached the city of Ingolstadt, found a hotel room in the old city, and settled down to watch World Cup soccer and also the end of a stage of the Vuelta de Espana bike race.
Mary Shelley used the old anatomy school in Ingolstadt as the setting for her novel Frankenstein.
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