32nd day Laupheim to Tubingen

Distance: 101km
Total: 2820km

Must thank for the hospitality of friend's family and specially my friend for the great week, hope I would have understood german language more. Left in the morning after good breakfast to the sunny weather. It felt pretty light to cycle first 15km after all break days, probably went too fast and wasted extra energy for little gain. Reached the Danube, which was a lot smaller here on the upstream, than when I first saw it in Hungary bit north of Budapest. Also found road 465, which became relatively quiet after Ehbingen.

On 30km, day started to go downhill, I got flat on my rear tyre. Patching the hole on tube was piece of cake, but as I patched the hole I saw how horrible condition rear tyre was. It was disintegrating all over, and even the tube had taken damage quite a bit. Knew that it was just matter of time when it would break the tube again, and guess knowing that killed much of the driving motivation.

In the next town asked about bike shop from tourist info and got directions for one. Too bad it was kind of bigger store that sold only some cycling equipment and decided against putting low quality soft rubber tyre on my bike, bought tube repair kit though as I was out of small patches.

Kept going slowly and had pretty nice downhill before Lichestein (small town, not the country), where I also enjoyed a kebab. After this things started to get messy with big towns, a lot traffic and not being able to ride the motorway. Rode through 1.2km tunnel, where I was not supposed to be judging from amount of horning.

Finally reached Tubingen, which seemed to have nice historical centrum and went there to take a look and see what I can find. Centrum was built on steep hillside over Neckar river and had plenty of narrow streets and stairways between the houses, and there was also a proper bike shop! Bought new similar Schwalbe marathon plus tyre as I had earlier and 'plugged' it in at nearby park.

At this point clock was so much that decided to just take the camping site Tubingen and call it a day. Campsite has quite some other cyclists and Wi-Fi! Its also most expensive campsite with 14.40€ price tag. (I was in hotel for this money in Poland!)

Tomorrow, Rhein - and hopefully France!