Last night we had a crazy thunderstorm. Where we last left off, the sky had turned black and the heavens unleashed upon us along with gale force winds. This then subsided for a while, but returned around 2am. Viki thought the tent was going to break. Fortunately it didn’t, we fell back asleep, and all was well.
We awoke to chilly temperatures and continued wind, setting off for 18km (after some plain bread for first breakfast) to Saverne, where we each had two pastries and a coffee.
The Eurovelo route then took us along a canal for nearly the entire day. The first 60km we travelled west, into a mix of headwind and sidewind. We had lunch in a bus shelter (the high today was only 12C) and had to throw out our salami after finding it covered in ants.
The rest of the day was much better, with a tailwind as we headed north. We stopped at a grocery store at 95km and fancy raspberry tarts as a snack, then found a place to camp by a bunker right on the Maginot Line, that aimed to deter German armies in the Second World War.
