Day 6 started off beautifully passing through one bistoric town after another .Gundelfinger with its well preserved historic tower gate, then Lauingen with amazing painted walled buildings and a giant easter egg nest. Dillingen was full of colourful painted houses and a lively Coffee to go shop with very funny serving staff. Nearly lost hubby here as it was full of great motorbike magazines. Our final historic town of the morning was Hochstadt which took us a little while to realise we had actually arrived there. Signposts seemed to have completely disappeared. I asked some elderly ladies coming out of the supermarket where we were which then led to extensive discussion on what route we should take, they then pulled in an elderly man who cycles regularly so he put us back onto the right track. We got a few supplies in for lunch as we’d been warned it was all very rural with no refreshments beyond this. So lunch was a picnic in the woods. Okay not exactly a full picnic, sitting on my coat eating a roll and a tin of herrings with my spork!! It was then many kms through agriculture, gleaming green fields and a relentless headwind so we were very glad to arrive in Donauworth.A pretty moated small town within a town.It had been a tiring days cycle against the wind so after walking around and dinner it was an early night.

The hotel im Ried was having wifi issues so we left Good Fridsy with no map downloaded of our destination Ingolstadt. As we were eating breakfast we noticed the trees and flowers been blown around but as Mick pointed out the petals were still on the flowers so couldnt be a gale. We hadn’t gone more than half a km before hubby noticed his front panier was coming loose, the metal was shearing away , a cable tie held it together and off we set again.It was going to be a slow day….Being Good Friday we didnt expect to find anything open for coffee but as we approached an old historic pub we saw cars parked outside and bikes with panniers so in we went. We met an english couple Gail and Willie who were trying out their first independant cycle tour in their 70s and dare I say it faster than us,maybe minimal luggage helps. !!Never say you’re too old to do anything new. Revived we tried to set off but hubby was having a bad bike day and the chain came off twice… It was quite a hilly day but not as bad as the 600m ascents of day 2 of the ride enroute to the convent, only480m ascent in total.

Very scenic up and down and also on dikes tnrough forests. Lunch was sitting outside at a cafe with the Danube flowing past, washed down with some alcohol free beer.This is the life.Cycling on we remet Gail and Willie and organised to meet for dinner in Ingolstadt.Slow progress in the afternoon .Hubbie finding cycling into headwinds hard .Time to send some of those warm clothes back maybe, its already up to 22C.

Plenty of historyin Ingolstadt plus of course the audi museum so rest day might be quite busy!