The alps, the alps!

Toni says: Wow! What an utterly incredible and amazing day we had yesterday. We talked over dinner last night an agreed that it feels like we've been through several time zones. We left Fussen in Germany about 10:30 yesterday morning and within 10 minutes we'd crossed the border into Austria. The plan was to travel to Lake Konstanz via a valley through the alps. This was a part of our journey that Jon was particulary looking forward to. "Don't worry!" he said, "this is going to be so cool and so much easier in the saddle than yesterday's trip." Famous last words!




Fussen town centre, looking up the the Alps.





Can you spot the excavators high up on the quarry!




Jon standing by the river Lech. Lech means milk (in several languages) and perfectly describes the opaque colour of the river.




Elbingenalp: amazing roads through the alps, as usual.




A handsome man stands by a bike in Austria :-)




Toni's excellent shot of a waterfall near Warth.






Jon's excellent shot of a biker on the way to Warth.








As we crept above 1,500m the snow was at road level. So Toni hopped off to have a quick snowball fight.







Avalanche risk, opposite the bike where we had lunch!




Little duck family about to emigrate to Switzerland.










Above pictures - on the ferry over to Switzerland. We drove all the way to Constance and found a hotel with a crappy Wifi - hence we're now in McDonaldns having breakfast on Sunday morning with no external poower - hence can't spell check or write more as only 2 mins of power left.

Off to Frieberg now - see you all later... love Jon and Toni :-)