A Mouse In Our Tent!!!: The Wet Mousy Campground to Bad Mergentheim
Oh yes, we have had a mouse in our tent!! After decades of camping, this is a first for us. Luckily, we never saw it in the tent, but as we were getting our panniers out of the vestibule to pack the bike, we found this fat rascal using a pannier as his nest. Barry jumped in to action and eventually got him to leave. However, it got more interesting when I was deflating the mats and noticed black droppings on the floor, on my phone, etc - and then I came upon a fairly large hole in the floor of the tent with distinctive tooth marks! Yikes, I don't want to think about the possibility that three of us were in the double sleeping together. Anyway, there is nothing like packing up a wet tent and dodging mice to get your heart pumping. We are happy to be on our way.
Barry, the mouse chaser. He looks happy to be moving on and getting back on the bike.
Yeah - a bakery and good coffee. Suddenly things are looking up. A communication breakdown with Camping Forelle - she told us there were no shops or villages closeby, so we stay put. A surprise to discover this bakery a few km away. (Our Romantic Strasse map doesn't start until Werbach, so we were a bit out of the loop.)
What a nice couple and fellow tandem riders too. They were out for a day ride and stopped to have a chat. We admired their motor...hmmmm perhaps some day?
I used my "super" translating skills (and my translator app!) to understand a sign which said, "Caution, trail ahead requires pushing of your bike." Well, it did, but it was not so bad.
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