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Superman!
5 years agoMerry Christmas!
5 years agoSorry to burst the bubble, but Mairie, just means Town Hall. Dodie
5 years agoWell the dates on the tracks would certainly explain the lack of ferry. Clearly there had been a ferry there but not in the last year or more. Would be interesting to test RWGPS and see if I could fool it into providing that ferry into a track or if it knows better
5 years agoLake mystery "deepens": Looking at the track in Osmand+, it goes through the lake, and in Bikemap.net? - through the lake if using Open Streetmap and beside the lake (mostly!) in "Relief Map". The ",mostly" is a clue, for the shape of the lake is different between these two maps! I think these are artificial lakes that are either being dredged or filled in! So that leaves open the question of which are the most up to date tracks AND/OR maps!
Dodie is saying she is glad she went "inland" and avoided the area. I think in this we had not only the mystery track but also signage on the path indicating an "alternate". Anyway, as Dodie's Mom used to say in her last years, "That is all water over the bridge". It would be nice to have the latest possible maps and tracks going "forward"!
How frustrating to be out on the road in the heat and have the track guidance be flaky! And then once in a hotel (or tent!) there is still a shortage of internet, screen size, and pure stamina to figure things out. So here I am with lots of internet, big screen, and a good night's sleep, and I say "Ok, I will figure out why the track tried to put Marvin and Erika into a lake".
First off, the track you have was dated 2014, and the data points within it were dated 2013. On the Esterbauer web site, the track date is 2016, so there is some updating going on. The actual printed book that I have is dated 2011, so the paper representation of the track in that would be a bit old too. Still, I don't think the Rhein track is changing all that dramatically.
The bigger mystery is about the lake (which I take to be Baggersee Giesen). When I load the load the 2014 track using the PC software "GPXsee" and show the track on Open Street map, sure enough it goes right into the lake! But when I load the track into Google Maps, the track slides by just to the west of the lake. However, the underlying shape of the track in both cases is identical. It's as if the carpet of the world has been yanked over by about 1/8 of a km! Soon I will load the track into Osmand+ on Android and see if I end up in the lake.
But, the plot thickens even more. Since we passed this way in April, why did our feet not get wet in the lake? We fired up the exact track we used in April, from the device we had then, and hey, it swung way west, through Hordt! Now where did we get that track from? Can't remember!
Unfortunately, access to the very latest Bikeline tracks is hard because, heh heh, we think we lent you the books with the access codes. There are three Rhein books, and we do have Andermatt to Basel here. So we can double check those tracks. Stay tuned for that, plus I will try to see where I got that track that went by Hordt. Meanwhile it could be a good idea to buy rubber boots or a raft!
Helpfulness revenge. I like it!
5 years agoI got in some helpfulness "revenge" the other day by accosting a pair of hapless German cycle tourists who had stopped to think or get a drink at the top of our driveway. I insisted they should avoid the "big hill" and take the "ferry". In the end I am sure they had no idea what I was blithering about! No doubt later, while puffing up the big hill, they would be thinking "Where did that guy say we should have turned?" or rather "Wo hat dieser Mann gesagt, wir hätten uns wenden sollen?"
5 years agoHot night or not, I still like those duvets!
5 years agoYou have to wonder. They seem to have a lot of spare buildings around as I will show you in the next edition
5 years agoHey, those are the same buildings as in the sunflowers photo. Are they allowed to reuse 'em like that?
5 years agoToo bad about the phone line in this great photo - should have snipped that first!
5 years agoThank you, Bill, we will look to see if we can find it in Canada when we return home.
5 years agoRose of Sharon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_of_Sharon
----->Bill
Canada Man!
5 years ago