Eiffel - Day 4 - Schmidtheim - Höfen
This is the route we rode today:
Our hotel was really nice, especially dinner yesterday was delicious. As today was a short route, we started cycling at 09:00.
Let’s get on the road
I was expecting a bit of a laidback route today but we had quite some steep climbs. The other days had a bit longer and gradual climbs but these were short and steep. The descents were fun though.
Going down
Cycled 6.8km, climbed 93m, currently at 535m high.
What buildings are on top of a hill? Castles of course, and we saw 2 today. The one in the picture below looked really nice and we asked a passerby to take a picture.
Say cheeeeeese
Cycled 14.9km, climbed 263m, currently at 460m high.
We noticed that it rained quite a lot since the beginning of the trip because we saw water running everywhere on the roads, something we didn’t see before. The rivers were pretty high but it was still ok.
Rushing river
Cycled 25.3km, climbed 422m, currently at 493m high.
The last 10 kilometres or so we rode on the route we started on and the road was a lot worse than we remembered, due to the rain. We really struggled going up on the stony wet road. For the last couple of kilometres we decided to take the normal road.
And we’re back at our starting point
Cycled 39.9km, climbed 698m, currently at 551m high.
All in all, we’re all really happy that the trip went this well. There was quite some rain but it didn’t dampen our spirits and we enjoyed the trip a lot!
If all goes well, I’ll be back on the road in a couple of weeks, so see you then hopefully!