Black Forest Rides

According to Google Maps the trip from Bad Liebenzell to Colmar is 195K and should take two hours and 11 minutes via the A35.  Of course the A35 is not to our liking when so many other roads beckon, so the trip took the whole day. But the Black Forest towns and countryside are worth pursuing, and most of the roads were new to us.

Park in Bad Liebenzell

 

We started the day with an extensive German breakfast (included in the 85E hotel price) followed by an hour's walk around town which is gearing up for the summer spa crowd.  We were once told that spa treatments were covered by the national health insurance and we tend to believe this, given the number of "Bad" towns and the crowds that we often see in them during the summer season.

One reason for our slow progress

Most of the day was spent exploring numerous byways and villages, with a late afternoon lunch picnic in Bad Wildbad (not too far from our departure point).  Five-thirty found us in Freudenstadt, barely 1/3 of the way to our booked destination in Colmar.  A number of construction detours extended the trip which included a lovely ferry crossing of the Rhine, so we did not arrive until 8. C'est la vie.  We are briefly in Alsace-Lorraine for two nights before heading into Switzerland.