After a short break for rain, and driving, I’ve had some good days out from a b&b base in Mellau, at the western tip of Austria. (We’ll pass over a rather depressing ride in the cold and rain!)

One day I spent a morning exploring Bregenz, waiting for the rain to stop. And the afternoon cycling along the northern shore of the Bodensee, in Germany, past Landau, on a route that Helen and I cycled in 2014.
The next day summer had returned and I drove to the Rhine delta, just in Switzerland, and cycled a medium sized pass over to St Gallen for lunch. Then a descent to the southern shore of the Bodensee, where I followed the shoreline path (along with everyone else) back via Rorschach.

And today I switched to walking. First a very steep cable car from 700 to 1400 meters, and then a hike to the top of the Kanisflue, 2069m, an impressive fang of limestone with a narrow summit ridge. There were loads of people tucking into lunch at the top.

To the north you could see out over Bavaria, and to the SW to the highest peaks of central Switzerland, distinguishable by distant glaciers.

Instead of taking the cable car back down, I walked, enjoying the beautiful alpine scenery high up, and then the dense forest. A lovely day.