Sat-May 12, 2012 – First things first! Bamberg Beer
This is Schlenkerla Smoke Beer Wheat — It’s an ale with light smoky aroma. As Bavarian wheat beers, it is being brewed with a mixture of both barley malt and wheat malt. The portion of Barley malt is hereby a classic Schlenkerla smoke malt, the wheat malt remains unsmoked.
Schlenkerla Rauchweizen Smokebeer - unique and very tasty!
Typical pork shoulder meat & potato dinner.
The main town hall in Bamberg.
Sun-May 13, 2012
Repositioning Day – Bamberg to Garmisch-Partenkirchen area 270 km (167 miles)
We ride from the flat lands around Bamberg south through Munich and ~60 km to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Garmisch-P is a mountain resort town in Bavaria, south Germany.
The further south we rode, the more overcast and cold it became.
South of Munich, there is a 2+ km tunnel. To me riding through tunnels are black and white. When we popped out the other end, it was like The Wizard of Oz. Beautiful, technicolor snow capped Alps cover the entire horizon. OK I exaggerated, I could see the Alps range in the low, overcast, haze. Garmish-P is 10 km from the tunnel. This is at the base of the Alps with Austria on the other side.
Making Camp
It takes us 1.5 hours to find our camp site, unpack and pitch our tents.
Camp is set-up in no time in very light, on and off sprinkles.
Dinner at a local pub and sampled this! Lowenbrau Triumphator dark beer — 7.6%. Yaooooowza!
Lowenbrau Triumphator, dark, 7.6%!
One of the best bottled beer's so far!
Tomorrow the Zugspitze, highest mountain in Germany, elevation: 2962 m / 9717 ft, Fussen’s Neuschwanstein Castle and Linderhof Palace.
Dean you’re doing exactly the things I look forward to doing in a year or two! Rain and beer seem to be recurring themes.
I think the dates on your blog are off. Are you really reporting events that occurred over a month ago?
Thanks Tom. To many 7.6%ers. The month is MAY!
Your rain suit photo looks photoshopped. Are you SURE you’re there or just drinking beer and eating strudel back near the base hotel?
I’m jealous , being 100 % of German ancestors I’m hanging on your every word and photo’s !!!
Pete Mayer
I hope that your bike is holding up!
Dean, it seems amazing that you have made it across so many borders sans Lisa. Initially, we were impressed with Homer’s ability to step into the breech and pick up after you, until that nasty forgotten document scenario raised its’ ugly head.
Keep up the good work, there is hope for us in 3 weeks.
Now we are talking! Drinking beer!
Tom, regarding his category date, I think Dean just was having too many of those 7.6% beers and just typed it wrong….
Back to work me-keep posting!